Prior to the coronavirus, it might have seemed easy to imagine which jobs would remain “essential.” Doctors and nurses, certainly; grocery store workers and gas station attendants and mechanics, the type of people you meet with for what you need in good times and bad: whose work underpins our daily life, and which we could not live without.
What we may not have predicted, though, was the odd place gig work would come to hold in our labor economy during COVID-19: essential but, as always, almost invisible.
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