While most everyone in the labor writing world is having hot takes on Amazon, Sarah Jaffe continues to explore the myriad ways people are getting screwed over in industries far off our radar screen, s
It’s true enough that truckers through the entire British diaspora are evidently going to lead the revanchist working class violent revolution against decency. But that doesn’t mean trucke
Since this blog has decided to interview Yglesias, I wonder what’s going on in Bangladesh these days. If you remember back to 2013, Yglesias decided to respond to my call for global safety stand
One of the many, many problems with the way we run our economy is that we plunge ahead on every issue without rules and then, maybe just maybe, if things get bad enough, we take some minimal steps on
The California docks have a solution to solve the supply chain backups. Will it shock you to learn that said solution just happens to fit their own personal preferences around repealing labor and envi
The entire modern supply chain system is based on exploiting as many workers as possible in their mania to maximize profit in just-in-time deliveries. That unquestionably includes the largely Asian wo
In 2013, the Rana Plaza collapsed, killing 1,129 workers making your clothing. No one in America cared. American companies made sure nothing would change. European companies at least agreed to minor c
The last year has forced the nation and world to deal with its supply chain issues, at least to the point of not having access to what we want to buy (we obviously don’t care if workers die maki