Toggle navigation
TWText.com
TWText.com
faq
Contact US
Follow US
#Unionization
Sun-ha Hong
sunhahong
1/n In my new book, Technologies of Speculation, I talk about 'control creep': data surveillance justified for one purpose is inevitably repurposed elsewhere. Exhibit A: Self-tracking & Internet of Things,
Read more
Lacey Beloved by Millenials, 3 Gen Xers and 1 GenZ
LaceyWilson4
Some folks talk about social media breaks during this moment and that’s personally very hard for me bc despite my publicity in this field, the conversations I’m in and the
Read more
Edwin Ackerman
edwinackerman
I see some U.S. commentators genuinely puzzled by AMLO's visit, considering Trump's open hostility towards Mexico. But there are a few things to keep in mind to understand this: 1/https://twitter.com/phhamm33/status/1280905229698052
Read more
Jorge J Rodríguez V
JJRodV
I agree with students who want tuition adjusted/lowered based on going online. I *also* agree with faculty who say their salaries should not be lowered because teaching online is 10x
Read more
Ioana Marinescu
mioana
New paper Workers' wages are taxed by employers who violate their rights, & this tax is regressive. A 10% wage increase is associated with a 4% decrease in labor violation
Read more
Philip Loring
ConserveChange
Today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, post-docs at University of Guelph vote on whether to unionize. Post-docs are a hugely important part of academia, so here is a short thread on why
Read more
Ryan Deto
RyanDeto
Two large investigations came out recently revealing some of the motivations behind UPMC's decisions to ignore earlier orders to halt elective surgeries & to downplay the dangers of PA’s coronavirus
Read more
SOLAECLIPSE®️ #ENDSARS
DrinkSolaPop
ELAINE, ARKANSAS MASSACRE OF 1919 *THREAD* I'm just doing this thread because it's a story that needs to be told....just like the 1921 riots in Tulsa. World War I just
Read more
Seth J. Prins
s_j_prins
In the latest issue of AJS, @adamreich and I provide empirical evidence that mass incarceration influences not just individual-level employment outcomes, but the structure of the labor market as a
Read more
Marker by Medium
MRKR
America is about to witness the biggest labor movement it’s seen in decades, writes @stevelevine. http://read.medium.com/4h2FUon Across the U.S., cashiers, truckers, nurses, burger flippers, stock replenishers, meat plant workers, and
Read more
Sadie Farrell 🏴 ↙️↙️↙️
Marusya_1312
This is why I don't understand the politics of the Zoomer college kids. They're all either into weird leftcom bullshit or they're tankies. Being a radical in school, naturally you
Read more
Peter C. Cook
petercook
The media brought their preconceived notions and biases to the #Amazon union fight (all the while parroting the union's talking points) without actually asking the *workers* themselves what they wanted...
Read more
dri
DriXander
Completely missed this. Amazon has a patent for a wristband that tracks workers’ every move + nudged them via vibrations when it judges they’re doing something wrong.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/technology/amazon-wristband-tracking-privacy.html
Read more
Noah Rothman
NoahCRothman
You hear this often, and it's not entirely unfounded. But Biden is not as insulated from from Democratic culture warring via legislation as many suggest...https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1386724555448897538 First, the narrative: &qu
Read more
Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The labor movement has a complicated relationship with monopolism. For a long time, economists (both right and left) documented the "large firm premium" - the higher wages that workers at
Read more
Cory Doctorow
doctorow
In most of the world, the lockdown has destroyed small businesses while increasing the profits of Big Tech intermediaries like Amazon, who control access to customers on one side, and
Read more
‹
1
2
3
4
›