Everywhere you turn the world of work seems to be in a state of disarray. We are told that jobs are being replaced by ‘gigs’ as our conventional economy is transformed into the ‘gig economy’. Other commentators assure us that employment is actually being superseded by peer-to-peer sharing as we transition to a ‘sharing economy’. Paul Mason even goes as far as to argue that these processes hail the end of capitalism.
Peer-to-peer sharing in other word collaboration, access to information,