Precarious Work

Editor’s Note: The more things change, the more they stay the same. To a surprising extent, the super exploitation of

Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Platform Workers Take on Tech Giants in the Workplace and the World

January 2019February 2019 Julianne Tveten capitalism, collective bargaining, corporations, industry, Labor, military-industrial complex, unorganized workers

In recent years, Silicon Valley’s platform workers have introduced a phenomenon previously alien to their industry: collective action. This process

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Making the Grade: Rating Professors

February 2018May 2018 Joshua Sperber adjuncts, capitalism, consumption, contingent workers, education, higher education, Labor, Winter 2018

How student consumerism tyrannizes adjuncts.

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Student Consumerism vs. Contingent Faculty

February 2018May 2018 Paula Finn adjunct organizing, adjuncts, faculty, student

The neoliberal trend that has corporatized higher education and made of it a brave new world of contingent faculty labor

Gender & Sexual Identity Immigration Precarious Work Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Justice on the Job for Nail Salon Workers– Narbada Chhetri and Pabitra Dash interview with Kressent Pottenger

January 2018June 2018 Kressent Pottenger community organizations, contingent workers, immigrant workers, Labor, living wage, Winter 2018, women workers, Working-class voices

Organizing on the far side of the economy is gaining ground once thought impossible.

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Yelp and Labor Discipline: How the Internet Works for Capitalism

May 2014June 2018 Joshua Sperber Spring 2014

Notwithstanding the optimism surrounding the progressive potential of the Internet, that medium has helped sustain, and even intensify, prevailing inequalities. The Internet, especially following the 1996 Telecommunications Act, has been effectively dominated by the media oligopolies that rule the networks.

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The Precariat: A Class or a Condition?

May 2013July 2018 Peter Frase Spring 2013

The claim that work has become more precarious in recent decades has an intuitive appeal, at least among a layer of young people and activists. The concept of the “precariat,” playing on the old description of the working class as a “proletariat,” attempts to give empirical and sociological content to this intuition. The term has been widely disseminated by U.K. sociologist Guy Standing, whose book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class summarizes a long career of investigation into the changing nature of waged work.

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