# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the legal challenges presented by an increasingly independent workforce, from his book, "The Sharing Economy"

1 Faculty News July 11, 2016 ![TheStreet logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/thestreet.jpg?itok=2XiyrQ8_)>

Excerpt from [TheStreet.com](https://www.thestreet.com/story/13634538/4/growing-independent-workforce-comes-with-perks-and-pitfalls.html) -- "'We are in the early stages of a pretty profound shift in how we organize economic activity and a byproduct of that is going to be a radical change in what it means to have a job,' said [Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), the author of the book The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism, published this May by MIT Press."

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