Offshoring Silicon Valley
In The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, Steven Greenhouse, the veteran New York Times labor writer, provides a panoramic picture of American workers struggling with an economic order...
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On the Road to Nowhere
This article will appear in the Winter 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Last August 31, Takele Gobena, an Uber driver, stood alongside Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien...
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A Safety Net for On-Demand Workers?
MikeDotta/ShutterstockAn Uber cab in New York City. For many Americans who care about how workers are treated, their biggest concern about the much-ballyhooed “on-demand” economy is the way that Uber,...
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On Demand, and Demanding Their Rights
This article appears in our Summer 2016 issue. Subscribe here. Travis Kalanick, Uber’s founder, recently recalled that when he first started the company seven years ago, “it was easy to communicate...
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Taking Trump’s Populism Seriously
AP Photo/Julie JacobsonSupporters arrive at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's election night rally, Tuesday, November 8, 2016, in New York. In small cities and towns across the nation,...
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Trump's Carrier Pigeons
(Photo: Darron Cummings)President-elect Trump speaks at Carrier Corp. on December 1, 2016, in Indianapolis.Something in President-elect Donald Trump’s deal to save 800 Carrier jobs doesn’t add up.When...
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Beyond Carrier: Can Congress End the Green Light for Outsourcing?
AP Photo/Evan VucciPeople watch as a motorcade carrying President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence arrive for a visit to the Carrier factory, Thursday, December 1, 2016, in...
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Driverless Future?
This article will appear in the Spring 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.Five to ten years from now, Uber hopes, the following will be an everyday occurrence: A driverless...
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What Does the Tax Bill Do for Low-Income Workers?
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP ImagesTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a news conference in the Capitol where GOP senators said families and small businesses would benefit from tax...
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Connecting Public Transit to Great Manufacturing Jobs
This article appears in the Spring 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. screen_shot_2017-07-19_at_4.28.52_pm.pngAfter 17 years heading a labor-community alliance in Los...
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SeaWorld's and Kavanaugh’s Missing Empathy Gene
AP Photo/Jacquelyn MartinPresident Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, listens to a question on the third day of his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill...
View ArticleOffshoring Silicon Valley
In The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, Steven Greenhouse, the veteran New York Times labor writer, provides a panoramic picture of American workers struggling with an economic order...
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On the Road to Nowhere
This article will appear in the Winter 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Last August 31, Takele Gobena, an Uber driver, stood alongside Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien...
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A Safety Net for On-Demand Workers?
MikeDotta/ShutterstockAn Uber cab in New York City. For many Americans who care about how workers are treated, their biggest concern about the much-ballyhooed “on-demand” economy is the way that Uber,...
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On Demand, and Demanding Their Rights
This article appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Travis Kalanick, Uber’s founder, recently recalled that when he first started the company seven years...
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Taking Trump’s Populism Seriously
AP Photo/Julie JacobsonSupporters arrive at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's election night rally, Tuesday, November 8, 2016, in New York. In small cities and towns across the nation,...
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Trump's Carrier Pigeons
(Photo: Darron Cummings)President-elect Trump speaks at Carrier Corp. on December 1, 2016, in Indianapolis.Something in President-elect Donald Trump’s deal to save 800 Carrier jobs doesn’t add up.When...
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Beyond Carrier: Can Congress End the Green Light for Outsourcing?
AP Photo/Evan VucciPeople watch as a motorcade carrying President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence arrive for a visit to the Carrier factory, Thursday, December 1, 2016, in...
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Driverless Future?
This article will appear in the Spring 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.Five to ten years from now, Uber hopes, the following will be an everyday occurrence: A driverless...
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What Does the Tax Bill Do for Low-Income Workers?
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP ImagesTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks during a news conference in the Capitol where GOP senators said families and small businesses would benefit from tax...
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