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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.

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Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

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.

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

The problem of employer power runs much deeper than monopsony.

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality

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.

Brishen Rogers

Forum Response

The Limits of Basic Income

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

Brishen Rogers

Forum

Basic Income in a Just Society

Each week, another magazine, book, or think tank sketches a dystopian near-future in which automation renders workers unnecessary. Is a basic income the solution?

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality, Politics

How Not to Argue for Basic Income

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

Brishen Rogers

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