Should-Reads

• Conservatives Should Ensure Workers A Seat At The Table – American Compass

• Findings of Shift: The Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology – New America and Bloomberg

• How the American Worker Got Fleeced – Bloomberg Businessweek by Josh Eidelson

• How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America – The Realignment Podcast with Marshall Kosloff and Michael Lind

• It’s Not the 'Future of Work,' It’s the Future of Workers That’s in Doubt – The American Prospect by Sarita Gupta

• The Labor-Savvy Leader – Harvard Business Review by Roy Bahat, Thomas Kochan, and Liba Wenig Rubenstein

• The new industrial policy, explained – Noahpinion by Noah Smith

• The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence – Stanford Digital Economy Lab by Erik Brynjolfsson

Getting into a [Going to Work] mindset

• Johari Window – The Decision Lab

• Rules for Better Identity Conversations – Charter by Kevin Delaney

Artificial intelligence and work

• A World Without Work – The Atlantic by Derek Thompson

• Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster – Economist by Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi

• Before AI Takes Over, Make Plans to Give Everyone Money – The Atlantic by Annie Lowrey

• Bringing A.I. Tools to the Workplace Requires a Delicate Balance – New York Times by Kevin Delaney

• Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier – One Useful Thing by Ethan Mollick 

• Robots have been about to take all the jobs for more than 200 years – Timeline by Louis Anslow

• Silicon Valley’s New Parlor Game? The ‘Last Job’ – Fortune by Roy Bahat

• Street-Level Algorithms – Stanford HCI Group by Ali Alkhatib and Michael Bernstein

• The AI Hype Has Subsided, But the Revolution Continues – Bloomberg by Tyler Cowen

Climate and work

• The Heat Death of the American Frontier – How Things Work by Hamilton Nolan

• Working People and Climate Change – The American Prospect by Damon Silvers

Difference and work

• After the pandemic’s rewind of women’s progress, here’s how businesses should advance equity – Fortune by Janet Foutty

• Economic insecurity in the family tree and the racial wealth gap – Review of Evolutionary Political Economy by Darrick Hamilton and Jermaine Toney

• How to Create Inclusive Communities for Entrepreneurs of Color – Inc. by Delali Dzirasa

• Making Equity Inevitable – Democracy Journal by Angela Hanks

• Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working – ILR Review by Darrick Hamilton, William A. Darity, Jr., and Man Xu

• What’s on the Horizon for Working Women? – Ms. Magazine by Liz Shuler

• Women’s Work Is the Backbone of the U.S. Economy – Ms. Magazine by Ai-jen Poo

Economic structures and business models

• Corporate Profit Strategies and U.S. Economic Stagnation – American Affairs by Herman Mark Schwartz

• Intellectual Property and the Fissured Economy – American Affairs by Erik Peinert

• New York City: Struggles over the narrative of the Solidarity Economy – Geoforum by Lauren Hudson

• Share Buybacks and the Contradictions of “Shareholder Capitalism” – American Affairs by Julius Krein

• The immigrant workforce supports millions of US jobs – Brookings by Dany Bahar, Carlos Daboin Contreras, and Greg Wright

Geography and work

• A Road Map for Rural America’s Comeback – Bloomberg Opinion by Noah Smith

• Data Shows Office Mandates Hurt Women, But Amazon Execs Say They ‘Know It’s Better’ – Forbes by Lisa Conn

• How America Can Unleash the Untapped Power of Its Regions – New York Times by Julius Krein

• Small-Town America Is Dying. How Can We Save It? – New York Times by Rachel L. Harris and Lisa Tarchak

• So You've Decided to Bungle Your Company's Flexible Work Plan – Culture Study by Anne Helen Petersen

• The Office is Dying. It’s Time to Rethink How We Work – New York Times by Ezra Klein, Anne Helen Petersen, and Charlie Warzel

• The Sweet Spot for Hybrid Work – Charter by Kevin Delaney

• Welcome to the Flexetariat Revolution – Fortune by Julia Hobsbawm

Our personal role as leaders

• A CEO posted a picture of herself breastfeeding during a video meeting and went viral. Here are the responses she got–and what they tell us about remote work and misogyny – Fortune by Lisa Conn

• Corporate America is waking up to frontline workers’ importance – Ford Foundation by Jose Garcia

• I Sold My Company For Millions And Then Worked At McDonald's – Insider by Scott Heiferman

• To Advance Freedom, We Need To Improve Job Quality – Aspen Institute by Maureen Conway

Role of government

• American Small Businesses Are on Edge of Extinction Event and Congress Is Not Doing Enough – Common Dreams by Amanda Ballantyne

• America’s Judges Are Putting My Life on the Line – New York Times by Sara Nelson

• Designing Technology for Easier, More Equitable Access to the Safety Net – Rockefeller Foundation by Kevin O’Neil

• Guaranteed Income Programs Are Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy – New Republic by Natalie Foster

• Housing is a Labor Issue – How Things Work by Hamilton Nolan

• Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. – Culture Study by Anne Helen Petersen

• Work Requirements Just Won’t Die – The Atlantic by Annie Lowrey

Structure of work

• As goes Uber, so goes the nation – Noahpinion by Roy Bahat

• Down With Diversocracy—and Meritocracy – Compact by Sohrab Ahmari

• Gig Workers’ Data Rights Should Be Prioritized in Labor’s Next Fight – Truthout by Phela Townsend

• Imagining a Bright Future of Work – Mary Beth Maxwell

• Is productivity software making us less productive? – Vox by Ezra Klein

• It’s Time to Give Domestic Workers the Protections They Deserve – Marie Claire by Ai-jen Poo

• Post-Liberalism and the Threat of Private Tyranny – The Realignment Podcast with Marshall Kosloff and Sohrab Ahmari

• Solving Human Problems with Technology – Rice University Department of Computer Science by Chris Hyams

• The Expanding Job – Culture Study by Anne Helen Petersen

• The invisible "ghost" workforce powering our day-to-day lives – TED Radio Hour by Mary L. Gray

• Who will find the first silver unicorn? – TechCrunch by Ai-jen Poo

Work in our culture

• 4 things can make the difference between being happy and miserable as you age – Fortune by M.T. Connolly

• After Student-Debt Relief, America Must Move Beyond 'College for All' – Newsweek by Wells King

• Employees took advantage of the Great Resignation. Now the employers want revenge – The Source Washington University St. Louis by Jake Rosenfeld

• How do we find dignity at work? – TED with Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman

• Hustle culture: Is this the end of rise-and-grind? – BBC by Megan Carnegie

• Layoff Brain – Culture Study by Anne Helen Petersen

• The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy – Culture Study by Anne Helen Petersen

• The Problem with Everything-Bagel Liberalism – NYT by Ezra Klein

Worker power

• America's seeing a historic surge in worker organizing. Here's how to sustain it – WBUR by Wilma Liebman

• A Reformed Labor Movement Could Advance Conservative Values and Priorities – National Review by Oren Cass

• Bargaining for the Common Good: How Unions and Labor Contracts Create a Better Life for All – Berkeley Law by Randi Weingarten

• Economic Democracy at Work: Why (and How) Workers Should be Represented on US Corporate Boards – UC Davis Journal of Law and Political Economy by Lenore Palladino

• How Businesses Should (and Shouldn’t) Respond to Union Organizing – Harvard Business Review by Roy Bahat and Thomas Kochan

• How Prosperous Is America? Ask UPS Drivers – Bloomberg by Tyler Cowen

• Look Who’s Talking: A ‘New’ Conventional Wisdom on Labor – Mary Beth Maxwell

• My Grueling Day as a Hollywood Extra – Compact by Sohrab Ahmari

• The Conservative Case for Unions & the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party – The Realignment Podcast with Marshall Kosloff and Sohrab Ahmari

• The Union Debate Over Housing in California – The Discourse Lounge by Darrell Owens

• Unions and the U.S. Economy – C-SPAN with Mary Kay Henry

• Why are unions such a non-starter in the C-suite? – Washington Post by Adam Lashinsky

Workforce development

• A Better Model for Worker Training – American Compass by Oren Cass

• A model to prepare workers for the future: organized labor training centers – Also by Roy Bahat

• Employers are Begging for Workers. Maybe that’s a good thing – NYT by Ezra Klein and Jamila Michener

• Real Solutions for Kids and Communities (Video) – TEACH Keynote by Randi Weingarten

• The job training myth – Also by Roy Bahat