按需经济

这就是按需经济（on-demandeconomy），这种工作模式体现在优步（Uber）等在线系统上。优步是一款智能手机应用，它可以把个体出租车司机和需要出行的城市居民匹配起来。

This is the on-demand economy , the pattern of work exemplified by online systems such as Uber , a smartphone app that matches freelance taxi drivers to city dwellers who need a ride .

加州劳工委员会（CaliforniaLaborCommission）裁定，优步（Uber）司机应属于员工，而不是独立的承包商。该裁定可能会对按需经济造成重大影响。

In what could prove to be a ruling with serious implications for the on-demand economy , the California Labor Commission has ruled that an Uber driver should be classified as an employee , not an independent contractor .

但按需经济让许多这样的保障措施都消失了。

The on-demand economy sweeps away many of these safeguards .

经营按需经济的企业出现了爆炸式增长。

The category of on-demand companies has exploded .

按需经济预示着一种福特当年无法想象得到的经济合作形式的到来。

The on-demand economy heralds a form of economic co-operation that Ford could not have imagined .

构成按需经济的企业是类似的，但价格信号已经取代了社交动机。

The companies that make up the on-demand economy are similar , but price signals have taken the place of social motivations .

但按需经济的影响将进一步深入到受教育较少、物质保障储备有限的社会阶层。

But the effects of the on-demand economy will reach deep into social strata that have less education and a limited reservoir of material security to draw on .

按需经济可能比把工作彻底软件自动化要强吧，但也不一定值得庆祝。

The on-demand economy may be better than the alternative of software automating all our work . But that isn 't necessarily much of a cause for celebration .

优步是一家估值40亿美元的公司，正在准备以50亿美元左右的估值筹集资金，它已经成为按需经济的象征。

Uber , valued at $ 40 billion and in talks to raise money at about a $ 50 billion valuation , has become the symbol of the on-demand economy .

她曾在2015年夏季的一次演讲中指出，按需型经济，或说零工经济中的创业公司——优步和Airbnb之类——既是释放创新，同时也在工作场所安全保障和未来什么样的工作是好工作方面，带来一些难题。

In a speech in the summer of 2015 , she noted that start-ups in the on-demand or so-called gig economy - Uber , Airbnb and their ilk - were unleashing innovation but also raising hard questions about workplace protection and what a good job will look like in the future .

即便现在就业已经在重新增长，美国人的工资却依旧停滞不前，所以按需的经济模式也许能提供全新的收入来源。

Even during a time of renewed job growth , Americans ' wages are stubbornly stagnant , and the on-demand economy may provide novel streams of income .