#LABOR

smooth skinned anthropology major

lunarplexith

i've been thinking about what abolition vs the university would look like bc I've been feeling like organizing against the university is futile. we're constantly being stalled by university tactics

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

The labor market added 266,000 jobs in April, solid growth but far below expectations. Growth in March was also revised down. Further, we still have 8.2 million fewer jobs than

Thomas Frank

thomasfrank_

1. Hello twitter. I've written a new book. The subject is populism. And: the people who hate populism. The recurring conflict between these two poles of our political life. 2.

balajis.com

balajis

Farming was the 1800s. Manufacturing was the 1900s. Counterintuitively, could investing become the most common "job" of the 2000s?Reason: crypto and fintech are turning everyone into an investor, just like

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now_dee

Those Ancestors that were in n physical bondage, what type of labor were they forced to do? Mine work? Lumber work? Cotton? Landscaping? Engineering? Cooking? Cleaning? Driving? Driver work (aka

Pete Davis 🌱

PeteDDavis

In honor of Labor Day, here’s a goal for the coming decade: A 30-hour workweek by Labor Day 2030. It’s been 80 years (and a 250+% gain in productivity) since

ty 🔃 ʎʇ

tyunderwood

This keeps getting trotted out to explain why quibi was an unpredictable failure, and other companies are unpredictable successes. What is interesting is- you can (mostly) predict whether an idea

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: October 23, 1976. On October 23, 1976, International Woodworkers of America Local 3-101 in Everett, Washington had its monthly union meeting. Big deal? No! This

Jacob Remes

jacremes

I'm very excited to be joining @USofDisaster's #COVIDcalls tonight with @germsinhistory to talk about pandemic and disaster history. We start at 5 Eastern Time, and you can join in via

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Fun fact: in the US, farmworkers have always equalled or outnumbered farmers, including today!https://twitter.com/UrOrientalist/status/1378673871944040454 For those asking "but aren't farmworkers the REAL farmers??"That's

Matt Unrath

mattunrath

Here’s a new update to our analysis of how small-businesses are responding to the COVID-19 crisis using @Homebase time clock data, done with @alexbartik, Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin & @rothstein_jesse:

ACB

ACB66646281

so um Bernie dorks since yall lost again any of you interested in using some of that energy and enthusiasm into actual revolutionary politics by engaging in mass movement building,

Bodice Tipplers

BTipplers

A Thread: I saw a couple of posts about Chrissy Teigen choosing to share photos as she announced the loss of her son. People saying it was distasteful. And I

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation gave workers a fair shake from the

Oliver Bateman Does the Work

MoustacheClubUS

the 1950s are often referred to as the "consensus" period of american history, a time when labor, capital, and the political class cut a bunch of deals to run postwar

balajis.com

balajis

Entrepreneurs need to think about ways to do massive scalable job creation to get people back on their feet. Candidates include:- Amazon/Instacart for delivery workers- Lambda School for retraining- CloudKitchens