Bernhardt examines the difficulties of coming to terms with the gig economy• On-demand platform work is far less prevalent than current media accounts suggest.• An exclusive focus on Uber could derail us from understanding corporate strategies that are reshaping the U.S. labor market.• One idea is to create a legal category of workers between employees and independent contractors.• We need to modernize our legal and regulatory framework for the twenty-first-century workplace to reflect new configurations of economic power.
