This lesson contains 5 slides, with interactive quizzes.
Items in this lesson
elements of an introduction
Slide 1 - Mind map
Useful phrases to introduce the thesis statement
Slide 2 - Open question
Strategies for paraphrasing your source information
Slide 3 - Open question
Key features of a paragraph
Slide 4 - Open question
match the topic sentences to their corresponding ‘so-what’ sentences.
a) Replacing fixed employment, employments with gigs can produce an economic boost, not only by allowing a better match of workers to jobs by by freeing the energies of workers frustrated with their jobs.
1. At times, the use of gig labour not only threatens health but undermines productivity growth.
2. We should not expect gigs to replace traditional employments any more than inside labour markets replaced simple at-will employment after the 1930s, or factory mass production replaced artisanal shops in an earlier time.
3. A system of employment-based social insurance has little space for workers on gigs.
When they buy insurance or pension coverage as individuals, the cost is much higher than the group plans offered by large employers.Text
Employers as well as workers lose when the physical dispersal of production comes at the cost of the public good of shared experience and learning.