One thing the pandemic has done is made people question whether the 5-day work week really makes sense. People had done that before the pandemic too, but like a lot of things, the pandemic took previo
Whether you think automation is a serious issue for the future of work may depend on your prior perspective about the history of this issue. Many economists, Dean Baker among them, note that previous
As it turns out, when you build an industry on labor exploitation such as Uber and Lyft did, especially in the guise of the “gig worker,” which actually means “no rights and all the
The entire conversation about labor shortages and the right-wing freakout about low wage workers actually having power in the economy to make decisions about their own lives belies the real goals of w
See, the goal of Donald Trump and all his enablers has always been to make the lives of the poor as bad as possible, especially if there’s money in it for them. So that “administration,
On July 2, 1888, the London matchgirl strike began. In the pantheon of dangerous work, we probably don’t often think of making matches. To some extent, this is because the match market has colla
As the Biden administration matures, it’s becoming increasingly clear which progressive issues he really cares about and which he doesn’t (immigration, changing the trajectory of foreign p
On June 19, 1982, two Chrysler workers, a plant supervisor named Ronald Ebens and his laid-off stepson Michael Nitz, beat a Chinese-American draftsmen named Vincent Chin to death in the parking lot of