So I'm at the Fighting Inequality conference in DC, which is mostly a labor history conference. I see a paper by a young scholar you many know named Steven Attewell and it's really good. I give a paper saying the IWW free speech fights were...
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David Dayen talked to me about Out of Sight and how to create a global system of workers rights. An excerpt: Loomis, who also writes for the liberal blog Lawyers,.
1200 dead workers building World Cup projects in Qatar so far. This compares to just a handful of workers dying for other major sporting events in recent years, even in.
Some sage advice to rural people visiting Chicago, 1888
Above: Republican hero Bill Clinton Sometime in late November 2016, when we have all recovered from the election barrage, we ought to hold a vote on the worst article of.
With leadership like this, it's hard to believe the American labor movement is in decline: Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved.
Bored journalists desperate to create horse-race stories for the 2016 elections can pretend that Republicans could woo Latinos in sizable numbers. We see stories like this pretty much every cycle (the 2012 Latino vote was a total wild card! OK!!!) And maybe they could except...
Let's say you care about the exploitation of nail salon workers. Rather than just decide to change your habits and not get your nails done or do them yourself, which.
The worst kind of liberalism is responding to a story of oppression by deciding to do your own nails instead of going to a nail salon so you as a.
Image from The Florentine Codex, the 16th century study of Aztec customs by Bernadino de Sahagún Although I cringe at the term "Culinary Luddites," you really need this Rachel Laudan article, originally published in the wonderful Gastronomica, on the need to embrace culinary modernism and...
The global berry industry is probably not one you think about much but you should. The terrible conditions of food production around the world is something that I cover quite.
How could the nation have survived such a horrible outcome? It’s a good thing for pop music, honky-tonk feminism, and Canadian tax collectors that McDonald’s pays lousy wages. If the.