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In love with Uber and Airbnb? You might have 'disruption fever'

  • Written by The Conversation
imageAirbnb supporters rally in New York.Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

The Labor Party’s guidelines on the “sharing economy”, released last week, are a positive development for those concerned with the unfettered growth of businesses like Uber, Airbnb and others in the so-called “collaborative economy”.

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