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Science & Nature

Hospitals Need More Than Vaccine Mandates

If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.

Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako

Science & Nature

Here Come the Robot Nurses

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

Anna Romina Guevarra

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Workplace Training in the Age of AI

To support the work of the future, we must promote workers’ skills as crucial to technological progress.

Nichola Lowe

Arts in Society

Bringing Abolition to the Museum

Artist-activist Shellyne Rodriguez speaks with Billy Anania about museum labor practices and how Strike MoMA imagines a future of art for the people.

Shellyne Rodriguez, Billy Anania

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Ever Given and the Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism

Two timely new books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade, whose monstrous pursuit of profit has long wreaked havoc on laborers and the seas they sail through.

Charmaine Chua

Class & Inequality

Employers, Not Immigrants, Hurt American Workers

More restrictive immigration policies won’t solve declining wages and living standards.

Ruth Milkman

Class & Inequality

Amazon after Bessemer

Unions are just one element of a broader push to transform the company. Coalitions forged during the pandemic point the way forward—with a radical vision of worker and community control.

Nantina Vgontzas

Politics

From Crisis to a New Politics of Care

A recording of our event on the causes and consequences of the deepening care crisis and the possibilities for establishing a new politics of care, boldly reimagined. 

Boston Review

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing.

Mike Konczal

Gender & Sexuality

Feminism in Lockdown

The pandemic has foregrounded women's exploitation in the home and challenged feminism to once again go beyond middle-class concerns. 

Jessa Crispin

Law & Justice, Politics

American Democracy Is in the Mail

U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other.

Daniel Carpenter

Class & Inequality

Six Labor Policies We Need Now

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

Erin L. Kelly, Emilio J. Castilla, Thomas A. Kochan, Barbara Dyer, Paul Osterman, Nathan Wilmers

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