Learn the five signs that suggest you could be the next "disposable worker" amid AI's creation of disposable jobs, a brutal ...

Summer is the busiest time of the year for immigrant day laborers outside Home Depot, picking up jobs as roofers, painters and construction workers. But the usual crowd of both legal and undocumented ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adia Harvey Wingfield is an author and a professor of sociology. Union membership has been on the decline for some time. The ...

How many graduates of Buena Vista Elementary and Lowell High School in San Francisco have become labor book authors? Probably not many–other than Eric Blanc, whose mother taught in that city’s public ...

On a national level, the U.S. offers few legal protections for its workers. The federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 per hour since 2009, for example, and, though there is federal protection for ...

Labor’s decline over the past half century has devastated working-class communities, undermined democracy, and deepened the grip of big business over our work lives, our political system, and our ...

Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline. Starbucks union members ...

How can unions adapt to a new landscape of work? Seattle, Washington, 2022. If you’re looking for a bright spot in today’s political and social gloom, the union idea seems to be it. Organized labor ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. When the pandemic hit the US in the spring of 2020, construction projects of all kinds froze and ...

Fearing roundups, many immigrants are staying home. Construction, agriculture, senior care and hospitality employers say labor shortages will worsen. By Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Miriam Jordan Rebecca ...