children will be employed in jobs that don't even exist now. An interesting article explores whether social insurance, of which workers' compensation is a part, will even exist the future.
"If you believe the Silicon Valley sloganeers, we are in a “gig economy,” where work consists of a series of short-term jobs coordinated through a mobile app. That, anyway, is both the prediction of tech executives and futurists and the great fear of labor activists.
"But anyone who cares about the future of work in the United States shouldn’t focus too narrowly on the novelty of people making extra money using their mobile phones. There’s a bigger shift underway. That’s a key implication of new research that indicates the proportion of American workers who don’t have traditional jobs — who instead work as independent contractors, through temporary services or on-call — has soared in the last decade. They account for vastly more American workers than the likes of Uber alone.
Click here to read the article, "With ‘Gigs’ Instead of Jobs, Workers Bear New Burdens," (NY Times)