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If you work regularly and you have never received a W-2, you are probably a gig worker. That category of kinda-employed-but-not-really has mushroomed in recent years.
And while it allows the likes of Uber and Lyft to run a business with lower overhead, it creates some real issues for the people who do the work. Sociologist Alexandrea Ravenelle talked to a lot of those people for her book