On the limited information available, at least 30 percent - and probably more likely 40 percent - of the workforce is either unemployed or in 'precarious' work (jobs that are badly paid, can be terminated at any time or changed at a few hours' notice, and make it impossible to plan a life outside work). 8 Flexible work that suits both employer and employee is a good thing; precarious work that suits only the employer is not. Precarious work is so widespread partly because so few workers have much bargaining power.
supportive of direct government control of the economy, e.g. price control or minimum wages