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Articles tagged with labor
Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.
Sex workers are labor’s vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril.
How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.
Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.
While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
As the planet burns and pandemics rage, Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.
Monopoly power has certainly harmed workers, but the solution should be a wholesale rethinking of economic policy—not an embrace of perfectly competitive markets.
Netflix’s Maid and three recent best-sellers depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.
Intrinsic to what we hate about work is that we can’t imagine life outside of it.
If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.
