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The Paradox of Food Insecurity in the Nation’s Agricultural Heartlands
There are approximately two million farms scattered throughout the United States, on which migrant and seasonal farmworkers grow much of...
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Feb 2, 20234 min read


The Global Rise of Quiet Quitting
It is no secret that the culture surrounding work has shifted in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The American labor shortage has occurred...
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Nov 21, 20224 min read


To Support All Working Americans, We Must Support Railroad Workers
In the early hours of September 15, 2022, the Biden administration closed a tentative deal between union negotiators and railroad...
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Nov 13, 20225 min read


The Facade of Worker Power
For the past two years, the nature of work in the United States changed drastically. From March 2021 to July 2022, at least 3.7 million...
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Oct 28, 20224 min read


This Could Be Labor’s Battle of Saratoga… Or Its Waterloo
Cesar Chavez, a United Farm Workers (UFW) leader, began his hunger strike on February 15, 1968, and went on to go for a total of 25 days...
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Nov 17, 20214 min read


The Future of Labor in Postindustrial America: An Interview with Gabriel Winant
Gabriel Winant is an historian who studies the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism and a professor at the...
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Apr 22, 20219 min read


Strengthening the American Labor Movement: The Advantages of Sectoral Bargaining
In a recent message addressing an organizing drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, President Joe Biden came out strongly in...
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Apr 5, 20214 min read


The Final Countdown: America’s Last Chance to Save the Labor Movement
“I still believe in ideals. I am not for a return to that definition of Liberty under which for many years a free people were being...
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Mar 8, 20215 min read


Radical or Reasonable? The Case for a Federal Jobs Guarantee
The state of the union is in crisis, and a federal jobs guarantee is part of the solution. While it is easy to accept complacency, the...
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Dec 29, 20205 min read


The Case for Codetermination: Advantages of Worker Representation
In recent years, American corporations have faced a crisis of legitimacy. A 2020 Gallup poll found that 58 percent of Americans were...
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Dec 24, 20204 min read


The Second Death of a Salesman
The so-called “gig” economy is, for lack of a better word, gig-antic. This market, characterized by its dependence upon freelance workers...
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Jan 4, 20205 min read


Ni 1968 Ni 2018: Rethinking France’s “Color-Blind” Activism
Since last February, thousands of students and blue-collar workers from all across France have taken to the streets to protest President...
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Oct 22, 20187 min read


Rebooting Regulation
Technology and politics are deeply intertwined in America. Data analytics drives campaign strategy and policy decisions, and social media...
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Feb 17, 20183 min read


BPR Interviews: Leah Daughtry
Reverend Leah Daughtry is a renowned activist, preacher, and political strategist. She has held positions in the US Department of Labor,...
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Dec 16, 20164 min read


Educated, Yet Excluded: Why Access to Education for Iranian Women is Not Enough
Women’s education level is often considered a significant indicator of modernity and socio-economic progress. Today, there is a major...
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Dec 7, 20166 min read


All Work and No Pay: How employers exploit Rhode Island’s low-wage workers
Images of protestors standing at a picket line demanding the protection of workers’ rights characterized the American labor movement....
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Mar 16, 20166 min read


The Rise of European Leisure
Every day, more and more Swedish workers are working less and less. This is not because of unemployment or laziness, but due to a...
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Oct 24, 20155 min read


Are Uber Drivers Employees? The Growing Labor Crisis in the “Sharing Economy”
On June 17, the California Labor Commission ruled that Uber driver Barbara Ann Berwick was an “employee” of Uber. For most users of the...
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Oct 14, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author or editor of more than 20 books,...
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May 5, 20154 min read


Joey Quits; Others Demand Respect from Management
Joey DeFrancesco became a short-lived Internet celebrity in 2011 after the then-24 year old posted a video of himself quitting his job at...
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Sep 22, 20134 min read
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