Dr. Katie Wells, a Senior Fellow at the AI Now Institute researching tech in healthcare, spoke to Working Mass:
When I dug into the history of that, and I looked at all the scholars who had been studying labor markets for nurses, it became very clear that the rise of corporate medicine and the for-profit nature of a lot of hospital systems coincided with the degradation of working conditions for healthcare workers.
Dr. Wells is the co-author of a two-part “Uber for Nursing” study detailing the rise of gig work in the healthcare industry.
[…] “The rise of [gig nursing] is a symptom of really broken labor conditions,” Dr. Wells said.
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