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Best Books for Freelancers

November 8, 2018 by • , Tags: , • 0 Comments

Around the world, independent workers are getting organized. No longer an ignorable minority in society, freelancers are waking up to the potential power within their growing number. They are combining through online communities, campaign groups, incorporated associations and even proto-unions to exert influence over their conditions.

Independents Unite! Inside the Freelancers Rights Movement, by Joel Dullroy and Anna Cashman, introduces the concept of the collective empowerment of freelancers. The book provides an overview of the existing elements of the freelancers’ movement, with comparisons of the organizations and campaigns currently at work and the goals they are striving to achieve.

This kind of selfish freelancer gives us all a bad name

February 14, 2014 by • , Tags: • 0 Comments

The term “freelancer” is loaded with notions of militant individualism. It conjures up images of an armed solo warrior patrolling a Hobbesian wasteland.

This medieval mindset was reflected in a blog piece this week on a freelance careers website entitled “The free market freelancer”, which praised independent workers who battle each other to prove their worth.

In the post at freelancersmovement.org, Joshua Danton Boyd writes:

“The world of capitalism is tough, but fair.