9 Best Articles in 2022
VICE
Secret Amazon Reports Expose Company Spying on Labor, Environmental Groups
VICE
~17 min read · 2020-11-23 · Leaked documents reveal Amazon's reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on workers and its extensive monitoring of labor unions and social movements. · Shared by 247, including luis antónio santos, DHH, Matthias Lampe, Thomas Wong, Dr. Prakash Kashwan, hakan, Steve Faktor, Luca Like, Rick Powell, Carolyn Porco, Katja Evertz, Azeem Azhar, Timnit Gebru, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
Growth.Design
Labor Perception Bias: Why faster isn't always better
Growth.Design
Aug 2nd · Learn what the Labor Perception bias is and how to apply it to improve your product without relying on unethical dark patterns. · Shared by 225, including Stef Walter
The New York Times
Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening
The New York Times
20+ min read · 2021-02-18 · Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant’s hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize. · Shared by 92, including Jason Stanley, Karen K. Ho, Veni Kunche, luis antónio santos, Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг), San Jose Community NETWORK, Maurits Martijn, Sergio Caredda, p.e. moskowitz
Truthout
Young Workers Are Bridging the Climate and Labor Movements
Truthout
7 min read · Jul 21st · Ongoing organizing in the labor movement could have enormous implications for curbing the climate crisis. · Shared by 119
The New York Times
Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
The New York Times
9 min read · From 2019 · I saw the greatest minds of my generation log 18-hour days — and then boast about #hustle on Instagram. When did performative workaholism become a lifestyle? · Shared by 289, including Dewane Mutunga 🧠💰 | 📱 Text Me: 347-657-6682, Liliane Ferrari ™, Erin, Liv 😷, Mathew Ingram, Klaus Eck, Sachin Rekhi, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Niti Shree, Tyler Tringas, Jonathan Kogan, Mark Kaigwa, John Zeratsky, Marsha Collier, Brittany Berger, Fabricio Teixeira, Guy Kawasaki, DHH, Fern, Michelle Tandler
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Delivering the Digital Restaurant: This is the root of the labor
nrn.com
4 min read · Mar 30th · The kids aren’t lazy, and your labor woes won’t be fixed by a rush of workers suddenly re-entering the work force. Here’s the real problem — and possible solutions. · Shared by 90
Fast Company
This map shows which companies have lasted hundreds (and even thousands) of years
Fast Company
3 min read · From 2020 · A new set of maps charts the world’s oldest companies—and exposes the ways many of them relied on slave labor. · Shared by 479, including Antonio Ramos, Jose Paul Martin, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), John Koetsier, Mark Kaigwa, Howard Getson, Liliane Ferrari ™, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Jennifer Hurst, Gisele Navarro, Jessel Sookha, Jonathan Kogan, Juliana de Albuquerque, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Matthias Lampe, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Rick Powell, Eric Vitiello, Katja Evertz, Marius Bleuer
Fast Company
What would it look like if we started paying for unpaid labor?
Fast Company
2 min read · Mar 7th · It’s not a coincidence that women do, on average, double the amount of unpaid labor as men, and that millions of women have left to workforce in the last two years. So how can we solve the problem? · Shared by 88, including Philanthropy News Digest
Reuters
Exclusive: Hyundai subsidiary has used child labor at Alabama factory
Reuters
Jul 22nd · A subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co has used child labor at a plant that supplies parts for the Korean carmaker's assembly line in nearby Montgomery, Alabama, according to area police, the family of three underage workers, and eight former and current employees of the factory. · Shared by 88, including Aniyia (🗣 Anita without the T) ❤️, Frank Luntz, Kelsey D. Atherton, Dr. Pete Meyers, Ibram X. Kendi, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, kate wagner!, Kristy Tillman, Nicolas Babin, uché blackstock, md
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Growth.Design
Labor Perception Bias: Why faster isn't always better
Growth.Design
Aug 2nd · Learn what the Labor Perception bias is and how to apply it to improve your product without relying on unethical dark patterns. · Shared by 225, including Stef Walter
Harvard Business Review
In Uncertain Times, the Best Strategy Is Adaptability
Harvard Business Review
4 min read · Aug 24th · Companies everywhere labor under the illusion that the key to a great strategy is a good handle on the future. But meteorologist Edward Lorenz demonstrated that small differences can have massive… · Shared by 241, including Dion Hinchcliffe, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, davidabrock
romper.com
The Morning Rush To School Is Parenting At Its Most Essential
romper.com
4 min read · Aug 17th · There is no hero’s journey in this particular labor of mothering — or maybe there is, but you are definitely not the protagonist. · Shared by 222
Los Angeles Times
The organized labor movement has a new ally: venture capitalists
Los Angeles Times
5 min read · Aug 12th · A startup called Unit of Work is helping workers form independent unions, with backing from an unlikely source. The mission is to reverse the long-term decline of organized labor in the U.S. · Shared by 110
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The Evolution of the Labor Share across Developed Countries
clevelandfed.org
Summary · 9 min read · From 2019 · In most developed countries, the share of output accruing to labor has declined over the last 20 years. However, the underlying reasons for the decrease may have differed in the United States and… · Shared by 3, including getAbstract
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Global Labor Market Outlook
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Summary · 1 min read · From 2018 · Labor markets in most mature economies are quite tight, with shortages reaching historic levels in the US, Germany, Japan, and especially Central and Eastern Europe. In this report, we break down the… · Shared by 28, including getAbstract
Seth Godin
The trough of inefficiency
Seth Godin
1 min read · Feb 2nd · Successful organizations of just one or two freelancers have very high revenue per employee, effective labor utilization and few communications problems. And significant organizations of a hundred … · Shared by 372, including LARRY ELKAN, Mark Kaigwa, Massimiliano Aroffo, IronBrigade - Gaming/Vlogs
VICE
Amazon Is Hiring an Intelligence Analyst to Track 'Labor Organizing Threats'
VICE
2 min read · From 2020 · Amazon is looking to hire two people who can focus on keeping tabs on labor activists within the company. · Shared by 72, including Sergio Caredda, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Adrian Roselli 🗯, Dan Primack, Xose Alberte Cea
Marginal Revolution
Labor Unions Reduce Product Quality
Marginal Revolution
2 min read · Jul 11th · A very nice paper in Management Science by Kini, Shen, Shenoy and Subramanian finds that labor unions reduce product quality. Two strengths of the paper. First, the authors have relatively objective… · Shared by 68, including Alex Tabarrok
BuzzFeed News
China's Camps Have Forced Labor And Growing US Market
BuzzFeed News
~16 min read · 2020-12-28 · Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks. · Shared by 68, including Fred Scharmen, Richard Deitsch, Christopher Mims 🤌, Merkstatt, Francesco Marconi, luis antónio santos
The Verge
How Twitter is shifting the power balance from companies to their employees
The Verge
~11 min read · From 2020 · At the heart of a recent conflict between journalists is a labor movement that few are talking about. Twitter is giving employees a voice, and they’re using it · Shared by 57, including DHH, Stephanie A Kowalski, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Chris Messina, Dan Primack, Shelly Kramer, LoriBeth, Mathew Ingram, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Katja Evertz
Vox
Labor exploitation, explained by Minions
Vox
6 min read · Jun 22nd · We can understand the entire history of the capitalist labor market through the Despicable Me franchise. · Shared by 65, including Tara McMullin
Anne Helen Petersen
What If This Is Just the Way Things Are Now
Anne Helen Petersen
9 min read · Mar 17th · One thing I’ve tried to get better at this past year: figuring out how to better acknowledge the labor that goes into work that I enjoy, that I find myself looking forward to, and that challenges me.… · Shared by 292
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