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New Labor Forum Highlights: May 16th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. The Annual Summer Inequality Jump Is Nigh Can we blame summer for inequality? Not quite. But summer is when young
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Michael Fortner Talks to Salon About 1994 Crime Bill & More
With #BlackLivesMatter bringing the 1994 Crime Bill back into the fore, and a competitive race for the Democratic presidential nomination that has placed Bill and Hillary Clinton’s record back on trial in the court of public opinion, more people than ever are asking: what really happened in the 90s? How did we get here, into a world of
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Photos: Workers, Technology & Uber: A Student-Organized Panel
By Stacey Payton As the ‘sharing economy’ grows, so does the level of precarious work, which shifts the risks and burden to the worker, but none of the benefits. The digital tools used in these emerging economies are paving the way for future automation. Will this lead to the eventual erasure of the worker? Each year,
