> Today the factory has been replaced by the mega-corporation, and the "workers" are now smaller businesses and private entrepreneurs or individual producers.

> Today the factory has been replaced by the mega-corporation, and the "workers" are now smaller businesses and private entrepreneurs or individual producers. Those factories were owned by companies. I don't think things have really changed. > Historically this situation has been solved by imposing limits to the freedom of factory owners and allowing workers to unionize, to restore a balance of power between the capitalists and the masses of workers. This has not been done yet with the new internet economy. In more recent history, the trend has been to reduce those limits, and generally remove whatever leverage labour has. Saying "it has not been done yet" seriously understates it.