Richard Greenwald, a professor of history and sociology, is dean of St. Joseph's College, N.Y. His most recent book is Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America. He is finishing a book on freelancers entitled The Death of 9-to-5: Permanent Freelancers, Empty Offices and the New Way America Works.
Today, freelancers are the fastest-growing sector of the economy, but our current social contract, written for the 9-to-5 world, either ignores them or complicates their lives with more hurdles
