The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”

Striking John Deere workers watch salaried employees don hard hats, as if the uniform is all it takes to do an essential job.

The political gadfly’s latest project, the Forward Party, is designed to leverage buzzwords in the service of cementing his place in the Thought Leader Extended Universe.

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

Surveys tracking how house cleaners, nannies, and others have been impacted by Covid-19 show a less rosy picture than official economic data.

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

A California law limiting warehouse quotas could also help with high turnover, giving workers more opportunities to organize.

Talking heads who blame government handouts for the labor shortage are missing the point. People are sick of crap jobs at crap wages.

Warehouse workers in Bessemer may get a union do-over, the Teamsters have the commerce behemoth in their sights, and antitrust momentum may be growing in Biden’s administration. What now?

The late AFL-CIO president’s breathtaking Obama speech in 2008 was just one of countless times when he spoke a courageous truth.

In 2017, would-be Cassandras warned about witch hunts and ruined careers. In 168 pages, New York Attorney General Letitia James captured a sexist American work culture that is as poisonous as ever.

The Amazon founder revived the theory of surplus value.

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

Workers in the Pacific Northwest have persisted through dangerous conditions this week—a preview of summers to come.

Don’t be fooled by the burst of moderation from the justices this term.

Why do game studios keep imploding?

The Roberts court deals a blow to California farmworkers’ ability to organize, in a ruling that may have dire implications for unions and regulators.

As higher education goes broke, expensive sports teams are a luxury that colleges can’t afford.

The protagonist of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s most famous musical helped build the world in which his modern-day heroes are struggling to live.

Wages and job openings are up. Here’s why they won’t stay that way.