Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials Highlight

When given the choice, employers would rather pay only for the labor-time they need, rather than assuming long-term commitments to flesh-and-blood workers who might get pregnant or fall down or get sick or need to grieve a family member or maybe just become redundant or too expensive. It’s much cheaper to think of labor as a flow that can be spliced into hourly pieces to fit employer specifications, a production input like plastic or electricity, and just as subject to rationalization.