The gigification of labour in Japan

Japan had over 4.6 million gig workers (freelancers) as of May 2020, according to a Cabinet Secretariat survey. The number is growing in many different industries. The government has devised no plan nor any concrete measures to deal with the growing gig economy. Although these gig workers work just like "regular" workers do, they lose all their rights when corporations invoke the magic word "freelance." The gigification of labor is advancing on all fronts and it should plant the fear in our hearts that the gains which previous generations of workers around the world struggled to achieve for over a century, for which many bled and died, is now slipping away.

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