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Much is made in the media about the so-called ‘gig economy’, a way of earning income from a variety of freelance rolls. Financial insecurity has always blighted the lives of people who are un-skilled. But, today, there are skilled workers who derive their income from a variety of roles. This is a significant change from the days in which skilled people could have a good wage and a job for life. As Dr Tawny Paul told Iszi Lawrence this isn’t new. Indeed it seems that up to three quarters of the skilled workforce in the eighteenth century carried out a number of jobs to earn money.

First broadcast on Making History, 25 July 2017.