Capitalism

Burnout, a personal malady that indexes a broken labor…

From The Baffler The legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills proposed that the “sociological imagination”—an understanding of how our own experiences reflect broader social and historical forces—could help us link our seemingly private troubles to public issues. Burnout, a personal malady that indexes a broken labor system, is a prime candidate for such reimagining. The emergence

Capitalism

Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions…

New court documents reveal how Google ran its anti-union campaign, ‘Project Vivian,’ between late 2018 and early 2020. A National Labor Relations Board ruling sheds light on a highly secret anti-union campaign at Google, that a top executive explicitly described as an initiative to “convince [employees] that unions suck.”  The campaign was called Project Vivian,

Corporate Greed

Hospitals Are Using the Nursing Shortage to Stiff Health…

Rather than materially address the underlying issues of the nursing shortage crisis, health care providers are exploiting it in order to further consolidate power at the top of industry hierarchies — and break the power of organized labor below. There’s no shortage of articles about our nationwide nursing shortage. Everywhere, foreboding headlines paint a dire

Capitalism

The American Ruling Class Has Never Let Us Build…

The nation’s original failure to “build back better” was Reconstruction, the attempt to radically remake society in the wake of the Civil War. Then as now, the most powerful people in the country went out of their way to maintain the status quo. America loves a good comeback story, but only at the movies. In