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"What's going to happen to my job"That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves. The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find themselves on shaky ground, turned into freelancers, temps and contractors. Even many full-time and professional jobs are experiencing this precarious shift. Within a decade, a near-majority of the 145 million employed Americans will be impacted. Add to that the steamroller of automation, robots and artificial intelligence already replacing millions of workers and projected to "obsolesce" millions more, and the jobs picture starts looking grim. Now a weird yet historic mash-up of Silicon Valley technology and Wall Street greed is thrusting upon us the latest economic fraud: the so-called "sharing economy," with companies like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit allegedly "liberating workers" to become "independent" and "their own CEOs," hiring themselves out for ever-smaller jobs and wages while the companies profit. But this "share the crumbs" economy is just the tip of a looming iceberg that the middle class is drifting toward. Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers,by veteran journalist Steven Hill, is an expos that challenges conventional thinking, and the hype celebrating this new economy, by showing why the vision of the "techno sapien" leaders and their Ayn Rand libertarianism is a dead end. In Raw Deal, Steven Hill proposes pragmatic policy solutions to transform the US economy and its safety net and social contract, launching a new kind of deal to restore power back into the hands of American workers.
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Steven Hill is a writer, lecturer and political professional based in the United States with two decades of experience in politics. Mr. Hill is a a Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is the author of five books, the most recent being Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers (www.RawDealBook.com) which was selected by The Globalist as one of the "Top Ten" books of 2015) . His previous books include the internationally-praised "Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age" (www.EuropesPromise.org) (selected one of the "Top Fifteen" books of 2010 by The Globalist) , "10 Steps to Repair American Democracy: A More Perfect Union, 2012 Election Edition" (www.10Steps.net) and "Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics" (www.FixingElections.com) .
Mr. Hill is a prolific writer and commentator who has been widely published and quoted in media around the world. His articles and opeds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Washington Monthly, Salon, Slate, Politico, HuffingtonPost, American Prospect, Die Zeit, International Politik (Germany) , Project Syndicate, Prospect (UK) , ESharp (Brussels) , Le Monde Diplomatique, Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey) , Prague Post, Courrier Japon, Taiwan News, Korea Herald, Toronto Star, Montreal Review, India Times, Burma Digest, Egypt Daily News, Roll Call, The Hill, Sierra, Ms., San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, and many other leading publications. He writes a monthly column for Social Europe Journal and a weekly blog for IP-Die Zeitschrift.
Mr Hill has been interviewed by many leading media outlets, including C-SPAN, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , Fox News, National Public Radio, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) , Netwerk (Netherlands) , Dubai-TV, Democracy Now/Pacifica, Sirius, FireDogLake.com, Politico and leading daily newspapers Le Monde (France) , La Croix (France) , Vima (Greece) , Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland) , Lidové Noviny (Czech Republic) , Der Standard (Austria) , Today's Zaman (Turkey) , Capitol Weekly (Sacramento) and others.
Mr. Hill has lectured widely in the United States and Europe, including to business, government, policy institutes, universities and NGOs, including the European Commission, UK House of Commons, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Greek government, U.S. Embassy, Brno, Czech Republic, European Ideas Network, European People's Party, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament, Ritter Institut (Vienna, Au
