{"id":3437,"date":"2012-05-07T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T01:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:05","slug":"ross-perlin-who-are-precarious-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3437","title":{"rendered":"Ross Perlin: Who Are Precarious Workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/\">The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pcLNTNfD3c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ross Perlin, author of <em>Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy<\/em>, explains that while growing up, he was exposed to a &#8220;myth of work&#8221; that involved spending one&#8217;s entire career in a single industry and working 9am to 5pm in office parks or factories. But in recent decades, he says, the idea of standard employment has &#8220;come apart at the seams,&#8221; and now as much of a third of the labor force in developed countries\u2014including the United States\u2014consists of precarious workers such as freelancers, independent contractors, seasonal part-time workers and interns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Nation Ross Perlin, author of Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy, explains that while growing up, he was exposed to a &#8220;myth of work&#8221; that involved spending one&#8217;s entire career in a single industry and working 9am to 5pm in office parks or factories. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[425,845,966,968,967,970,971,969],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}