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112 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/calr112 and id is 1 raw text is: Consumer Law as Work Law Jonathan F. Harris* In recent decades, the US. labor market has shifted from a prevalence of long-term, single-employer careers to more contingent work or work disguised as entrepreneurship. These attenuated relations between worker and firm reflect the 'fissuring of work, in which firms have utilized laws that permit them to offload costs and risks though outsourcing, subcontracting, and franchising out their labor needs. Some firms now go beyond fissuring work: they treat the workers themselves as consumers by offering them services and credit products. Workers, in short, are also consumers in some contexts. And when firms expand employment contracts to extend services and credit products to workers, workers are entitled to consumer lawprotections. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38JH3D38F Copyright © 2024 Jonathan F. Harris. * Associate Professor of Law, LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Senior Fellow, Student Borrower Protection Center, and grantee, University of California Student Loan Law Initiative. I thank the following for their conversations and feedback: Abbye Atkinson, Ian Ayres, Andrea Boyack, Juan Caballero, Richard Carlson, Miriam Cherry, Hugh Collins, Scott Cummings, Nakita Cuttino, Sarah Dadush, Dave DeSario, Andrew Elmore, Harris Freeman, Martha Albertson Fineman, Jane Flanagan, Larry Garvin, Terri Gerstein, Clayton Gillette, Jonathan Glater, George Gonos, Tristin Green, Hiba Hafiz, Luke Herrine, Chris Hicks, Alan Hyde, Christine Jolls, Tal Kastner, Pauline Kim, Andrew Koppelman, Stephen Lee, Orly Lobel, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Ryan Nelson, Douglas NeJaime, Michael Oswalt, Sachin Pandya, Christopher Peterson, Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett, Donald Polden, Ediberto Roman, Cesar Rosado Marzin, Leticia Saucedo, Chris Schwartz, Joseph Seiner, David Seligman, Katherine Stone, Lauren Willis, Noah Zatz, and Adam Zimmerman. I also thank the faculties of Santa Clara University School of Law and Touro Law Center and participants in the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, AALS Contracts Section Works-in-Progress Panel, Berkeley Consumer Law Scholars Conference, Equality Law Scholars' Forum, NYU Lawyering Scholarship Colloquium, Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment & Labor Law, Southeastern Association of Law Schools New Scholars Workshop, Law & Society Annual Meeting, Labor & Employment Relations Association Best Papers Series, University of Richmond Law School Junior Faculty Forum, and Michael A. Olivas Writing Institute. The following provided stellar research assistance: Hugo Garcia, Jessica Hammond, Dylan Holmes, and Shannon Skrzynski. Lastly, many thanks to the Calhfornia Law Review staff for excellent editing, especially Articles and Essays Editor Krithi Basu. This Article is dedicated to the memory of Michael A. Olivas. 1

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