We're All Precarious Now
The State of the Working Class in the U.S.
Socialism 2016
July 01, 2016
With Charlie Post
Notions that all work has become part-time and highly unstable, along with claims that most industrial work has migrated from the global North to the global South have become truism for much of the left today. This workshop will investigate these claims in the light of systematic evidence.
Suggested Readings:
“U.S. Labor: What's New, What's Not?” by Kim Moody (May 1, 2016). | https://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4660
“We're All Precarious Now,” by Charlie Post (Jacobin, April 20, 2015). | https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/precarious-labor-strategies-union-pre...