For all their triumphalist talk of ascendant demography and permanent majorities, Democrats have never really come to terms with the slow death of the labor movement.

Unions have never been less relevant than they are today in the modern economy. Where they have not been obviated by workplace health and safety rules, they are being left behind in the race away from traditional employment to the so-called “gig economy.”

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