Tag: Labor

Articles in class & inequality tagged with labor

Eli Friedman

Escape from the Closed Loop

Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.

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Robin D. G. Kelley Deborah Chasman

“Fascism never disappears because people come to their senses.”

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

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Lynne Segal

My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich

Remembrances of the late author have focused on her best-selling Nickel and Dimed with only rare acknowledgement of the major roles she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

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Charisse Burden-Stelly Jodi Dean

Before #HotLaborSummer

Decades ago, Black communist women decided to organize, fight, and win.

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Mie Inouye

Labor’s Militant Minority

How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.

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Robin D. G. Kelley

Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder

While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

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Emily Callaci

Care Work in a Wageless World

As the planet burns and pandemics rage, Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

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Brian Callaci

Competition Is Not the Cure

Monopoly power has certainly harmed workers, but the solution should be a wholesale rethinking of economic policy—not an embrace of perfectly competitive markets.

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Madeline Lane-McKinley

Demand the Imaginable

Intrinsic to what we hate about work is that we can’t imagine life outside of it.

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Nichola Lowe

Workplace Training in the Age of AI

To support the work of the future, we must promote workers’ skills as crucial to technological progress.

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