How Amazon turned a generation against labor.

Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.

While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?

Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination.

On the divisive narrative of “outside agitators” and how labor history can help guide the protest movement.

How a fearsome, fast-talking union boss became a leading figure in cannabis legalization while shaking down the very people he was supposed to be helping.

I was asked about labor protections for adult-film performers. I said: You have to recognize how complicated this is. The things that sex workers do to stay safe are almost always the things civilians want to pass laws to stop. Everything looks different depending on the distance from which you’re looking.

Interviews with a receptionist, a factory worker, and others about life on the job.

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

On the grueling nature of Chinese restaurant work and the hopes and dreams of the cooks and delivery men who have migrated to the U.S.

A dispatch from North Carolina.

Organizing the tech sector.

On the front lines of the labor movement.

It’s less about robots and the gig economy and more about companies stripping away the security full-time work has long afforded.

A central Massachusetts city enabled the author’s ancestors to move into the good life of the middle class. That move is more complicated today.

Revisiting California’s grape vines more than 70 years after the publication of The Grapes of Wrath.

On the labor conditions behind branches of NYU, the Louvre, and the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.

Inside the fast-food labor protests.

How “Do What You Love” devalues actual work.

How the American worker got screwed.

On cushy jobs in web development, deeply un-cushy opportunities in writing, and our assumptions about the value of labor.

On the life of illegal immigrant fruit pickers.

Without 1 million people on the ground, on ladders, in bushes—armies of pickers swooping in like bees—all the tilling, planting, and fertilizing of America's $144 billion horticultural production is for naught. The fruit falls to the ground and rots.