Law360, New York ( July 9, 2015, 10:53 AM EDT) -- Everyday, it seems as though another economic sector is being "Uberized," disrupted by a startup offering to link buyers with on-demand services through technological platforms. The rise of the platforms has been abetted as much by deep, structural changes in American labor markets as it has by advances in technology. Even three years ago, nearly one-third of American workers were freelancing, unconnected to a full-time employer according to one study. The number of people cobbling a living together from multiple odd jobs or project-based work is growing as the full-time jobs lost during the Great Recession remain so. Part of the reason for the rapid rise of Lyft Inc., Washio Inc., Uber Technologies Inc. and similar platforms is the large, diverse and hungry labor force ready to work outside of an actual employment relationship, to be a point in the cloud of contractors on their platforms, but not "employees."...