Labor

Carol Joyner

Jobs for Men but Not for Women? Jobs for Men but Not for Women?

Though sex-based discrimination is no longer legal, it still structures American employment. Passing the Build Back Better bill could finally change that.

Dec 14, 2021 / Elizabeth Gregory

How the Taxi Workers Won

How the Taxi Workers Won How the Taxi Workers Won

The 45 days of fierce protest, shrewd organizing, and ferocious solidarity that ended the debt nightmare that had engulfed the taxi industry.

Dec 13, 2021 / Feature / Molly Crabapple

Recycled Cans NYC

My Parents Collect Cans for a Living My Parents Collect Cans for a Living

When people ask about my family now, I tell them not with embarrassment or shame but with pride.

Dec 7, 2021 / StudentNation / Jessica Yauri

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Standing With Nurses Is a Feminist Project Standing With Nurses Is a Feminist Project

Nurses unions from 28 different countries are taking on governments and Big Pharma with a simple demand: Waive patents on Covid-19 vaccines, and end the pandemic now.

Dec 3, 2021 / Silvia Federici

Trucks hauling containers

Do We Really Need a 24-Hour Economy? Do We Really Need a 24-Hour Economy?

Perhaps the pandemic has given us an opportunity to rethink which goods are so “critical” that we’re willing to let other people risk their lives to provide them for us.

Dec 1, 2021 / Rebecca Gordon

Paperwork Keeps People Poor

Paperwork Keeps People Poor Paperwork Keeps People Poor

It would be a huge mistake for Democrats to embrace harsh work requirements once again.

Nov 29, 2021 / Bryce Covert

’Tis the Season for DeJoy’s Removal

’Tis the Season for DeJoy’s Removal ’Tis the Season for DeJoy’s Removal

Firing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is essential to ending the crisis at the USPS. But the agency needs more than a “return to quiet competence.”

Nov 25, 2021 / John Nichols

Why We Made “Going for Broke”

Why We Made “Going for Broke” Why We Made “Going for Broke”

In this video roundtable, Laura Flanders joins Ray Suarez and Ann Larson to talk about our newest podcast.

Nov 19, 2021 / The Nation, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Laura Flanders

Democrats Must Stand Firm on Funding the Civilian Climate Corps

Democrats Must Stand Firm on Funding the Civilian Climate Corps Democrats Must Stand Firm on Funding the Civilian Climate Corps

A key program in the Build Back Better Act, the Civilian Climate Corps has the potential to mobilize young voters for Democrats next year—assuming the bill survives.

Nov 19, 2021 / Matthew Miles Goodrich

Pentagon

I’m a Defense Industry Worker. It’s Time to Cut the Pentagon Budget. I’m a Defense Industry Worker. It’s Time to Cut the Pentagon Budget.

Limitless military spending doesn’t help workers like me. Green, union jobs do.

Nov 19, 2021 / David Story

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