Airbnb, Uber, eBay: in this intangible world workers must adapt to survive | John Harris

As the old forms of physical production fall away, the future looks bright for those who reinvent themselves – and ominous for those who can’tAs descriptions of capitalism go, it’s surely one of the best ever written: poetic, urgent, and as much to do with metaphysics as economics. According to the Communist Manifesto: “Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeoi