Unmine / Rise of the Sharing Economy

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During March this year, tens of thousands of Verizon workers have been on strike, demanding better job security and a new labor contract for employees across the Northeast.
Additionally, thousands of janitors working at Facebook, Google and other Silicon Valley companies have recently voted to authorize a strike unless their union and cleaning service contractors agree on a new labor contract....

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According to the 2015 “1099 Economy Workforce Report,” commissioned by venture capitalists and Stanford University alumni, 39 percent of sharing-economy workers are ages 18-34. This is coupled with almost half (49%) of Sharing-Economy consumers, also...

How to save money using Sharing Economy business models & services.
Excessive mass consumption among families and individuals started in the 1920s and exploded in the mid-1950s. The automobile industry provided an enormous stimulus for the national economy. By 1929, it produced 12.7 percent of all manufacturing output...

The idea of co-living is hardly new. In Israel, for example, Moshavs and Kibbutzim, two kinds of cooperative communities based on residents sharing resources with each other, have been around since the early part of the 20th century, and small towns...