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Tag: Labor

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Rachel Fraser

Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.

Paul Engler, Mark Engler, Janice Fine

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

Brishen Rogers

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

Karen Levy

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

Eli Friedman

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

Deborah Chasman, Robin D. G. Kelley

A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.

Mike King

The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

Lynne Segal

Dependence is a fact of all our lives; freedom lies in our capacity to care for others.

Lynne Segal

And what today’s organizers can learn from them.

Jodi Dean, Charisse Burden-Stelly

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Breanne Fahs

Sex workers are labor's vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril.

Heather Berg

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

Mie Inouye

Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.

Harmony Goldberg, Erica Smiley

T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

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

Recent works depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.

Sophie Lewis

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

Madeline Lane-McKinley

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