Luke Savage in Jacobin. March 16, 2022.
Read during the week of May 8–14, 2022
class, philosophy, socioeconomics
Maayan Lubell, Rami Amichay, et al. in Reuters. May 14, 2022.
Read during the week of May 8–14, 2022
Israeli–Palestinian conflict, policing
Evgeny Morozov in New Left Review. April 2022.
Read during the week of April 18–22, 2022
class, tech industry, technology
Paris Marx in Tech Won't Save Us. January 13, 2022.
Read during the week of April 18–22, 2022
class, philosophy, socioeconomics, tech industry, technology, workers' rights
Karen Weise and Noam Scheiber in The New York Times. April 1, 2022.
Read during the week of March 28–April 1, 2022
Despite heavy lobbying by the company, workers at the facility voted by a wide margin for a union. It was seen as a rebuke of the company’s treatment of its employees.
workers' rights
Tom Simonite in Wired. November 11, 2021.
Read during the week of March 28–April 1, 2022
Under pressure to make their sites accessible to visually impaired users, firms turn to software. But advocates say the tech isn't always up to the task.
ability
Margot Roosevelt and Russ Mitchell in Los Angeles Times. March 25, 2022.
Read during the week of March 21–25, 2022
In interviews with The Times, three Black former employees described how jobs at the pioneering automaker devolved into personal nightmares due to a pattern of rampant racism and harassment at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory.
anti-Black racism, race
Kim Lyons in The Verge. March 25, 2022.
Read during the week of March 21–25, 2022
A group of workers for a Google Fiber subcontractor in Missouri has voted to unionize, the first of its kind at Google’s parent company Alphabet.
tech industry, workers' rights
Shawn Donnan, Ann Choi, Hannah Levitt, and Christopher Cannon in Bloomberg. March 11, 2022.
Read during the week of March 14–18, 2022
Fewer than half of Black applicants were approved by the biggest bank mortgage lender.
anti-Black racism, class, race
Andrew DeMillo in AP News. March 11, 2022.
Read during the week of March 7–11, 2022
A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth.
children's rights, trans issues