The union-led movement has a plan to give fast-food workers a say on the job. California could make it a reality.

All over the country, workers are winning concessions. What business calls a “labor shortage” is really labor power in action.

Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.

The president waited too long, but now he’s getting serious about fighting Covid-19.

Republican-led states have reduced unemployment benefits, and workers are quitting their jobs at a nearly pre-pandemic rate.

Biden’s plan would allocate billions to transportation and manufacturing. But will it also do what’s necessary to build back the country’s unions?

You might be tired of Zoom calls or home cooking, but that’s not the same as what a frontline health worker is experiencing.

Chloé Zhao’s film risks romanticizing a harsh life in the gig economy.

Employees of LHC Group describe a business model that prioritized profits and compromised patient care. Soon they reached a breaking point: “It just didn’t make me feel right, doing what I did.”

The cultural impetus to hustle is built on decades-old political language. Why not try idleness instead?

From open office plans to gig work cons and fast-food franchises, the question of who’s actually in charge has been intentionally obscured.

What if workers channeled their passion into organizing for better pay and conditions instead?

Ten years out from “The Problem With Work,” the theorist Kathi Weeks considers the current labor crisis, “essential” jobs, and post-pandemic futures

You might think I work outside the U.S., beyond the reach of our labor laws. You’d be wrong.

We live in a work-obsessed country that, at least according to the film and television we binge, hates work more than anything.

An exploration of how we work, why we work, and when we might stop

Imagine a version of the U.S. that is not a global destabilizer and coercive magnet for those fleeing that destabilization. Imagine a world of movement for pleasure.

Why are workers being called back for nonessential work in the middle of a pandemic? Because their bosses can get away with it.

Rather than focus on normalizing weeping on the job, why not just make jobs suck less?

If the company wants to make good on its long-abandoned motto, it may have to rely on its workers.