Brishen Rogers
Brishen Rogers is an Associate Professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Prior to law school, he worked as a community organizer promoting living wage policies and affordable housing, and spent several years organizing workers as part of SEIU’s “Justice for Janitors” campaign.
Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
Work After Quarantine
COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our labor markets just as much as the fragility of our public health and welfare systems. As we take the economy out of its induced coma, we should ask what kinds of jobs we want and need.
Democracy in the Firm and the Workplace
Individuals can’t engage in democracy if they are struggling to survive.
Solidarity in Silicon Valley
Tech companies have seen waves of worker protest, but they are still far from democratic. The remedy is to build and exert real forms of worker power inside the workplace.
What the Minimum Wage Debate Gets Wrong
Critics of raising the minimum wage claim that it decreases employment, but they are missing the larger point.