The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
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Vaccine-Only Mandates as a Manifestation of the Bizarre Civil War-Stoking Impulses of the Professional-Managerial Class in the US
Why the vaccine-focused approach is not likely to develop necessarily to the advantage of the Biden Administration.
Read more...When McDonalds Came to Denmark
How Danish workers got McDonalds to comply with local labor practices, including high wages.
Read more...Federal Police Reform Talks Have Failed – But Local Efforts Stand a Better Chance of Success
Federal police reform was unlikely to go anywhere, but what might succeed?
Read more...“Yes, AOC’s Dress Was Performative Politics, But She Got Her Point Across”
Did the controversy around AOC’s “Tax the Rich” dress advance the cause of reducing inequality?
Read more...NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More
Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.
Read more...Algorithmic Management
Examinging how algorithmic management works and why it is likely to become even more widespread.
Read more...Matt Stoller: #OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest
Trying to clear up the rear-view-mirror takes on OccupyWallStreet, ten years later.
Read more...Why the Rich Get Richer and Interest Rates Go Down
A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.
Read more...Wait and See: The Labor Market Implications of Economic Uncertainty
An increase in perceived uncertainty does indeed increase the value of waiting, thus reducing job creation.
Read more...Elite Educators Have Milked the System for Long Enough
As the pandemic deepens inequality, it’s vital to dismantle the system that gives state schools no chance against elite peers
Read more...Removing Urban Highways Can Improve Neighborhoods Blighted by Decades of Racist Policies
Urban planning has been used to classify, segregate and compromise people’s opportunities based on race. Highway removal can improve urban neighborhoods.
Read more...With 38 Million Facing Food Insecurity, Hunger in US Soared by Nearly 9% in 2020
The US avoided mass starvation in 2020 mostly because the federal government stepped in to dramatically increase food and cash aid.
Read more...The Downton Abbey Effect: British Aristocratic Matches with American Business Heiresses in the Late 19th Century
How economically faltering British aristocrats monetized their titles.
Read more...Allow Least Developed Countries to Develop
Optimal economic policy for LDCs requires their goverments to resist aping Washington and OECD fads.
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