Critics argue that anti-discrimination law fails to challenge the fundamental inequalities of society. For Filipino-American workers, however, it became an important organizing tool in the fight against segregation and unsafe conditions on the job.
In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos explores how conflicts between left movements and the left government in Ecuador produced a militant critique of the extractive model of development.
Constitutions are often conceived as elite projects. The Indian example illustrates that founding texts can have unexpected meanings for popular politics.
In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.
In The Feminist and the Sex Offender, Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners pull back the curtain on the history of the sex offender registry and explore how we can strive to reduce sexual harm without mass incarceration.
As millions rise up against police violence, a white father and his Black son discuss racism, resistance, and empathy.
In Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, authoritarian and corrupt politicians have found fertile ground.
Contemporary automation discourse responds to a real, global trend: there are too few jobs for too many people. But it ignores the actual sources of this trend: deindustrialization, depressed investment, and ultra-wealthy elites who stand in the way of a post-scarcity society.
The structural conditions shaping care work are highly exploitative—and are profoundly linked to the high degree of COVID-19’s spread within both long-term care facilities and the communities that supply their labor force.
If Democrats win the U.S. election, it is time for a progressive reset in relations with Africa: a new foreign policy, centered on economic justice and the democratic aspirations of the continent’s youth.
The pandemic has exacerbated an existing child care crisis. Platforms like Care.com are growing, while exposing care workers to new forms of surveillance and discrimination.
Homework and piece pay in the garment industry were largely abolished by the global labor struggles that preceded the New Deal. Silicon Valley capitalists have brought the model back.
Today, inequality—especially racial inequality—is not only produced through the job market but through people’s ability to hustle.
Introducing our Fall 2020 special section, “Technology and the Crisis of Work.”
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