"The rise of contingent and eroded work is the result of a corporate strategy. Reducing the number of steady, dependent employees and replacing them with temporary workers or contractors relieves business leaders from having to offer expensive benefits and boosts profits. Work might still be boring, and now it can't be counted on."
Caitlin Zaloom at The Atlantic writes that "[t]he middle class is tricky to define today because the secure jobs and stable home lives that supplied its historical definition are now gone for most Americans."
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