“Do you think you should have to give up all your rights at work if you’re hired via an app instead of a more traditional way of getting a job?” asks Terri Gerstein, the director of the N.Y.U. Wagner Labor Initiative. “I don’t think so.” Over the past few years, the gig model has expanded from drivers and delivery workers to restaurant and hotel workers, health care workers and even early childhood educators. “Gig companies engage in the fiction that all of their workers are running their very own curiously identical, totally independent businesses,” Terri says. “I mean, the idea that a restaurant dishwasher is running their own totally independent business — are they going with a Maytag strapped to their back from place to place? It’s totally ludicrous.” #capitalism #gigworker #nytopinion