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.

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

The problem of employer power runs much deeper than monopsony.

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.

The Limits of Basic Income

Basic income without social insurance may do more harm than good.

Basic Income in a Just Society

Cash grants have a role to play in building a decent future for work—alongside much else.

How Not to Argue for Basic Income

When proponents deploy the logic of market competition, they undermine democracy and social equality.

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