My first dispatch from Paris, for In These Times, on France’s unpopular labor reforms. I talked to rank-and-file workers, students and labor experts.
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“With This Law, We’re Going Toward a Catastrophe”
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Brooklyn’s Female Day Laborers
My latest, in the Village Voice:
“The imbalance of the street corner economy is staggering, a hellish blend of just about all of the worst trends in the U.S. labor market: Workers have little to no bargaining power. There are no health and safety standards. No employment contracts, no stability. The pay is abysmal. Wage theft runs rampant.”
Nursing’s Workplace Safety Crisis
Nurses suffer almost as many injuries on the job as cops and firefighters but few safety regulations exist to protect them.
Will Robots And Algorithms Permanently Replace Humans In The Labor Force?
In this feature at International Business Times, I get into the future of jobs debate.
The Isolated Lives of North Dakota’s Gay Oil Workers
My story in the February issue of VICE.
Obama’s Environmental Policies Don’t Deserve Paul Krugman’s Praise
My opinion piece in The New Republic.
Battling Cove Point in the Capital
I have a piece out in The Nation on last weekend’s rally in D.C. to stop Cove Point.
