Category Archives: labor

Don’t be evil?

Posted on June 12, 2013 by

An old friend of mine has a sibling who works for Google. She used to regale me with tales of her visits to the Mountain View campus, which basically sounds like the best place to work in the world. But … Continue reading →

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Listen to me ramble about Atlantic City, labor law, sweatshops, and Star Trek

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Sarah Jaffe and Josh Eidelson have a wonderful podcast at Dissent, entitled Belabored. and I hugely recommend you listen to it for a weekly dosage of accessible news about the state of working America. This week they have me on … Continue reading →

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Atlantic City is Weird, Possibly Doomed (and I really like it)

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

In the beginning of this year I spent a lot of time in Atlantic City, just a short NJ Transit ride away from Philly. It’s a very bizarre little place, with a population of just under 40,000, an urban feel, … Continue reading →

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Montana is the Only State Where Your Boss Has To Have a Reason to Fire You…

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

…and the only way it got that way is because the business community was kind of into the idea. My story for AlterNet on the idiosyncratic history of America’s only “just cause” law: How did Montana become a socialist hellscape? … Continue reading →

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Workers Allege Wage Theft in Fancy Sushi Eatery, Fat Salmon

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

May Day was yesterday and I spent the day covering an action against a fancy sushi restaurant, Fat Salmon (best sushi in the city, 2012). A group of workers allege that the owner has been stealing portions of their tips, … Continue reading →

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Penn guards: More than a year since the union vote, still no contract

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

I haven’t been focused on keeping the blog updated as my stories come out and now I’m playing catch up. Below you’ll find my Philly City Paper update on the Penn security guards struggle to unionize, which I first reported … Continue reading →

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[Obligatory Bruce Springsteen reference to Atlantic City]

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

In one week Next City will be publishing my long form article on Atlantic City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and ever-increasing competition from surrounding states, especially Pennsylvania. Here’s the teaser for the article (with excellent photography from Paul … Continue reading →

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I’m in the latest issue of Dissent!

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

The Spring, 2013 issue of Dissent Magazine is here in all its glory and it contains my book review The Right and Labor in America Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, by Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. (It’s a loosely connected … Continue reading →

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Your clothing: Still made in sweatshops

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

About a month ago I wrote a long read for Salon about the difficulty of purchasing ethical apparel and the fact that moral consumerism is never enough. Although it can provide a good entry to the issue for the uninformed, … Continue reading →

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Consider the Bee (Or, Actually, Don’t)

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

I recently stumbled across this wonderful letter to the New York Times, written in the October of 1865, taking a strong line against anti-loitering laws. It’s quite funny and, I think, the correct inclination. Arresting people for hanging out is … Continue reading →

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