#Labor

Laia Navarro-Sola

Lnavarrosola

This semester I taught my first classes in the development PhD course. With @abhijeetsingh, we created a 3-lecture (9h) mini-series in education and human capital. There’s so much exciting work

Justin Feldman

jfeldman_epi

I wrote about this in my Jacobin essay, but I keep seeing the strong parallels between 19th century anti-contagionism and the public health people who are opposed to suppressing covid

Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific 🦦 🏳️‍🌈

chimeracoder

well, if you got a six-figure job offer, you'd still likely be a member of the working class https://twitter.com/Bemundolack/status/1338579899024596994 "working class", as Marx defines it, is not a factor of

Goldy

GoldyHA

1/ To add a little texture to @NickHanauer's thread, it's important to recognize that there's a good reason why orthodox economists (& economic cosplayers) so vehemently oppose a $15 min

Nelson Lichtenstein

NelsonLichtens1

The threat by Uber and Lyft to shut down operations in California has two historical precedents. The first is the "lockout" which has a long and ugly history in Anglo-American

Bill Tompson

william_tompson

A very interesting study from @WorldBankECA (full studyhttps://bit.ly/2YOrei4 ). Much to agree with but also some points about which I am more than a little sceptical. /Thread/https://twitter.com/eurasianet/status/1357461186330075139 1

Josh Eidelson

josheidelson

The National Labor Relations Board, and its structure and processes, and the terms it uses, and the terms journalists use for what it does are confusing: a (dry but hopefully

Charlotte Garden

CharlotteGarden

This remarkable story reveals that government has been urging meatpacking plants to prepare for a pandemic for more than a decade. *11 years ago*, OSHA said plants should stockpile masks.https://twitter.com/jbarab/status/1296478557649199104

Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️

jackmurphylive

Sex workers. Prostitutes. Escorts. Hookers.These subjects have been in the news a lot lately. We need to talk about it.I'm going to take position here that many of you might

AltShiftHedge

voiceofgray

One of the best pieces I came across earlier today was this- a real primer on the actual state of the consumption and income dynamics of the country.https://twitter.com/frontierindica/status/1349753998593515520 I'm not

America-China Watcher

PandemicTruther

Western media invented #UighurGenocide and #Uighurconcentrationcamps, but when they report on Xinjiang Uighur region, they always forget their own lies, so improbable are their inventions. There're supposedly 380 detention camps.

Edith Mirante

EdithMirante

1. This History Thread is a brief history of labor organizing in Burma (Myanmar.) This relates to the crucial forefront role that organized labor is taking in resistance to the

Marco Rogers

polotek

One thing I've learned to accept is that things like quality have never come from the company as a whole. Almost all the time, the quality you see is down

rustbeltjacobin 🌹

rustbeltjacobin

Historic southern union election coming up at an Amazon plant in Alabama. But all the reporting on it that I've seen skips over the main issue that bears reporting out.

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Late last June, Google bought out "North," a tech company based in Waterloo, ON, which manufactured "Focals," a line of "smart glasses." A month later, the company is turning off

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: June 26, 1894. The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called for a boycott in solidarity with striking workers at Pullman, Illinois. Let's talk

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