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Online exchanges are increasingly important even for jobs?such as
household repairs and errand-running?that cannot be contracted out to
distant workers. A crop of sites cater to local tradespeople such as
builders, plumbers and drivers, including RatedPeople and MyBuilder.
Workers do not even need a trade to find local work. TaskRabbit, a site
for hiring people to do things such as collecting groceries, assembling
Ikea furniture or making a delivery (for a flat fee of $10), is booming.
It now covers nine American cities, with London likely to follow soon.
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