Subject: Labor and Policy
Work Won’t Love You Back: We Were Warned, The Progressive, April/May 2023.
No Way Out, Democracy Journal, Spring 2023.
The Hard Head and Wild Heart of Barbara Ehrenreich, In These Times, March 7, 2023.
Making Paid Sick Time a Reality, The American Prospect, February 6, 2023.
Work Won’t Love You Back: Recruiting From Below, The Progressive, December 2022/January 2023.
Labor Rising: Is the working class experiencing a new CIO moment?, The Progressive, October/November 2022.
A Four-Day Week at Five Days’ Pay, The American Prospect, August 2022.
Tug Life, The American Prospect, April 6, 2022.
The US healthcare workers who can’t afford health insurance, Equal Times, March 7, 2022.
Work Won’t Love You Back: Wanted: An Anti-Work Movement, The Progressive, February 15, 2022.
Work Won’t Love You Back: A Transformative Time for Workers, The Progressive, November 29, 2021.
The battle for the future of “gig” work, Vox, May 18, 2021.
Who Cares?, The Baffler, May 2021.
Married to the job: how a long-hours working culture keeps people single and lonely, The Guardian, April 15, 2021.
Will the PRO Act Hurt Freelancers?, Dissent, March 23, 2021.
Steel Away, Bookforum, March 23, 2021.
We need to pay key workers with more than just gratitude, The Guardian, January 27, 2021.
Why Americans Need Paid Sick Leave, The American Prospect, October 20, 2020.
Despite Trump’s ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs’ Bluster, the Rust Belt Is Still Reeling from Plant Closures, The Progressive, October 7, 2020.
Paying Off Your Paid Leave, The American Prospect, May 14, 2020.
Socialist Policies Could Have Helped the United States During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Teen Vogue, May 7, 2020.
Belabored Stories: Who Counts as Essential?, Dissent, March 24, 2020.
Sara Nelson Says People Are Ready for Solidarity, The Nation, March 18, 2020.
The Last Stand in Lordstown, The New Republic, October 23, 2019.
The Return of the Strike, The Progressive, October 8, 2019.
The Four-Day Work Week—Not Just a Daydream, The Progressive, September 25, 2019.
Bad Boss Trump, the Great Organizer, The Progressive, August 14, 2019.
The Road Not Taken, The New Republic, June 24, 2019.
Sara Nelson is Not Afraid to Strike Back, The Nation, May 10, 2019.
‘This Is Much Bigger than Us, Than Our Union, Even Than Our City’, The Nation, January 23, 2019.
The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike, The Nation, January 19, 2019.
‘This Model of Education Is Not Sustainable’, The Nation, January 15, 2019.
Writing the Unions’ ‘Fight-or-Die Survival Chapter’, New York Times, September 2, 2018.
What Does the ‘Janus’ Decision Mean for Working Women?, Dame Magazine, July 11, 2018.
Booked: James Connolly’s Irish Socialism, with Shaun Harkin, Dissent, June 21, 2018.
The New Working Class, The New Republic, February 22, 2018.
How the Media Is Abetting the GOP’s War on “Welfare”, The New Republic, January 31, 2018.
Why Did a Majority of White Women Vote for Trump?, New Labor Forum, January 2018.
Trump’s Sham Populism, The New Republic, December 5, 2017.
Trump Already Has a Wall: It’s the Thin Blue Line, The New Republic, September 1, 2017.
Beyond their caricature of the working class, Socialist Worker, July 19, 2017.
Transcript of talk given at Socialism 2017 conference.
Home care workers have our lives in their hands. They’re paid only $10 an hour, The Guardian, July 13, 2017.
The Next Operation Dixie, Dissent, Summer 2017.
Conversation with Juan Miranda, Eric Robertson and Sandra Williams.
The Tooth Divide: Beauty, Class and the Story of Dentistry, New York Times, March 23, 2017.
Why the U.S. Women’s Hockey Players Are Planning to Strike, Dissent, March 17, 2017.
‘You’re Fired!’ The Abuses of ‘Skilled’ Worker Visa Programs, The Progressive, February 22, 2017.
#DeleteUber is introducing a new generation to the horror of scabbing, Washington Post, February 1, 2017.
In GOP Country, a Small Labor Organization Offers a Model for Fighting Trumpism, The Nation, October 4, 2016.
How Labor Day sprang from state violence, Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2016.
Are we still suffering the fallout of the New Deal?, Dame Magazine, August 22, 2016.
Excerpt from Necessary Trouble
‘We Triggered Something Epic’: Naquasia LeGrand & the Fight for $15, The Progressive, August 8, 2016.
‘People Are Really Responding’: An Interview with Labor Leader Bob Master, The Progressive, July 22, 2016.
Special Report: How to Get Away With Harassing, Firing or Never Even Hiring a Trans Worker of Color, June 6, 2016.
Why the Verizon Worker’s Victory is A Big Deal, The Progressive, May 31, 2016.
‘You’re Fired!’ The Abuses of ‘Skilled’ Worker Visa Programs, The Progressive, February 22, 2016.
Black Labor Organizers Urge AFL-CIO to Reexamine its Ties to the Police, Truthout, August 13, 2015.
Why Are U.S. Women’s World Cup Champs Paid Like Chumps?, Dame Magazine, July 7, 2015.
How 262 Cable Technicians Defeated a Union-Busting Giant, The Nation, February 23, 2015.
Feel Trapped in Your Job? That’s Because You Are, Dame Magazine, February 16, 2015.
Where’s Our WGA? The Union Situation for Freelancers, Scratch, February 2015.
The sick leave plan that Democrats needed in November, The Week, January 16, 2015.
Can worker cooperatives alleviate income inequality?, Al Jazeera America, January 13, 2015.
America’s Social Safety Net is Failing Workers in the “Gig Economy, The Week, August 12, 2014.
The Bad Boss Tax, In These Times, July 21, 2014.
Labor May Not Need Saving, But We Still Have a Long To-Do List, Talking Points Memo, March 20, 2014.
The Cult of Amateurism Plaguing the Sports World, The Week, February 19, 2014.
New Report: Port Trucking Companies Steal More Than $1 Billion in Wages From Drivers, In These Times, February 19, 2014.
Forever Temp?, In These Times, January 6, 2014.
Why Port Truckers are Striking: 12-hour Shifts, Noxious Fumes and $12.90 Paychecks, In These Times, November 18, 2013.
A Load off the Minds (And Feet) of Pregnant Workers in NYC, In These Times, September 25, 2013.
Opting for Free Time, In These Times, August 12, 2013.
Despite Bringing the Surveillance State to Work, Bloomberg Has Trouble Tracking Overtime, In These Times, June 12, 2013.
Bad Green Jobs, In These Times, May 27, 2013.
Sharecropping on Wheels, In These Times, May 15, 2013.
Unions to Banks: Pay Up, The American Prospect, May 9, 2013.
Why ‘Unions Don’t Like’ Penny Pritzker, Al Jazeera English, May 8, 2013.
‘Fashion Police’ Accused of Wage Theft, In These Times, April 19, 2013.
The Battle for Paid Sick Days Highlights Christine Quinn’s Flaws, Al Jazeera English, March 29, 2013.
‘We Have a Deal’: Paid Sick Days Will Be Law in NYC, Rewire, March 29, 2013.
New York City Council Holds Paid Sick Days Hearing but Mayoral Hopeful Quinn Barely Shows, Rewire, March 22, 2013.
The History of Scabby the Rat, Vice, March 7, 2013.
A Day Without Care, Jacobin, Spring 2013.
Paid Sick Leave Pays for Itself, So Why is NYC’s Mayoral Hopeful Blocking It?, Rewire, February 26, 2013.
A Department that Fights for Labor, The Indypendent, January 21, 2013.
6 Ways to Juice Up the Labor Movement, AlterNet, December 23, 2012.
How Organizing for Change is Very Different From Winning Elections, AlterNet, November 26, 2012.
6 Major Reasons You Should Care About the Labor Battles in Professional Sports, AlterNet, September 25, 2012.
Innovative Model Is Helping Save the Future of Unions and May Turn the Election, AlterNet, September 16, 2012.
Michigan Will Vote on Collective Bargaining; Judge Orders Measure Writing Union Rights Into Constitution Onto the Ballot, AlterNet, August 27, 2012.
Timothy Noah: Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Middle Class Is Disappearing, AlterNet, August 1, 2012.
Wildcat Strike Leads to Big Win for Cablevision Contract Workers, AlterNet, July 23, 2012.
Which Side Are You On? Activists Launch “Women for Paid Sick Days” Campaign to Press Mayoral Candidate Christine Quinn, AlterNet, July 22, 2012.
Wisconsin’s Recall Drama Down to Nail-Biting Finish, AlterNet, June 3, 2012.
Fired for a Short Skirt? The Realities of Anti-Worker Laws in Wisconsin and Ohio, AlterNet, March 26, 2012.
As TV Production Companies Rake In Profits, Employees Fight Wage Theft, Form Unions, AlterNet, March 26, 2012.
New Georgia Bill Includes $10,000 Fine, Felony For “Conspiracy” for Picketing, Protest, AlterNet, February 23, 2012.
How the Wisconsin Uprising Changed America and Why Its Renegade Politics are Here to Stay, AlterNet, February 21, 2012.
Interview with John Nichols
New Program will Bring Thousands of Jobs to Low-Income Californians, AlterNet, February 20, 2012.
6 Things You Should Know about Arizona’s Worse-Than-Wisconsin Attack on Public Workers, AlterNet, February 5, 2012.
The Right-Wing Zombie Lie About Public Workers That Just Won’t Die, AlterNet, February 2, 2012.
As Occupy Wall Street Has Changed Protest Dynamics, Vibrant Groups Like United Students Against Sweatshops are Back in the Forefront, AlterNet, January 15, 2012.
Fight On, Wisconsin, Ms. Magazine, Spring 2011.
Has Labor Been Left Hanging?, The Nation, August 17, 2009.