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Employment as we know it is changing. The kinds of jobs where one person works for one employer for years \u2014 with health insurance, sick days, paid vacation and a retirement fund \u2014 are getting harder to find. Throughout the economy, companies have pivoted to outsourced, subcontracted, freelance, temporary or gig workers. Many of those jobs don\u2019t have benefits; some of them don\u2019t even pay minimum wage. And while it\u2019s accelerated during recent recessions, the trend has been decades in the making.\xa0\n\nThis season, \u201cThe Uncertain Hour\u201d is looking at this thing we used to call employment: what happened to it, why it happened and what a workforce made up of \u201cnonemployees\u201d means for our future. The new season starts Wednesday, Feb. 3. Here\u2019s a preview.