Tag: labor

Columns

Consciously Uncontracting

Amber Husain

June 06, 2022

In defense of burning professional bridges.

Working Landscapes

John Merrick

May 05, 2022

Barry Hines’s pastoral fiction offers an antidote to the British country house novel.

Lost in the Supermarket

Rhian Sasseen

May 04, 2022

Browsing the literature of the grocery store

The Automation Myth

Clinton Williamson

April 06, 2022

To what degree can we blame automation for deindustrialization and class decomposition?

The New Neurasthenia

Charlie Tyson

March 15, 2022

How “burnout” became the buzzword of the moment.

Revolt of the Super-Employees

Erik Baker

February 17, 2022

On the political resentment of America’s little bosses.

When Jobs Disappear

Kim Phillips-Fein

February 01, 2022

Indiana workers grapple with a factory closure.

The Replacements

Rithika Ramamurthy

January 05, 2022

Amber Husain’s Replace Me turns the cultural logic of capitalism on its head.

The Tyranny of the Task

Josh Gabert-Doyon

November 29, 2021

With “microwork,” good old-fashioned piecework gets a digital makeover.

Taxis Take a Stand

Luis Feliz Leon

October 14, 2021

In New York City, cabbies are protesting 24/7 for debt relief.

Molecules and Vectors

Asad Haider

October 06, 2021

On Noel Ignatiev’s radical, lifelong commitments.

Who Needs the Office?

Rafia Zakaria

October 01, 2021

The pandemic has led to a reluctance to get back into the rat race.