Can ordinary people run society? ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2007-1/620/620_11_RunSociety.php

The WPA’s Federal Theatre: Creating Jobs and Creative Achievement ~~ TRUDY GOLDBERG and SHEILA COLLINS

https://njfac.org/index.php/2021/06/10/the-wpas-federal-theatre-creating-jobs-and-creative-achievement/

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Corporations Are Trying to Co-opt Mindfulness to Avoid Meeting Workers’ Needs ~~ Robert R. Raymond

https://truthout.org/articles/corporations-are-trying-to-co-opt-mindfulness-to-avoid-meeting-workers-needs/

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How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic ~~ SARAH ANDERSON

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/how-corporations-pumped-up-ceo-pay-while-their-low-wage-workers-suffered-in-the-pandemic/

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End the Subminimum Tipped Wage ~~ REBEKAH ENTRALGO

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/12/end-the-subminimum-tipped-wage/

Against Loving Your Job ~~ Sarah Jaffe

 https://inthesetimes.com/article/alienated-labor-capitalism-jobs-work

“We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will.”

The “Essential Worker” Swindle ~~ SARAH LAZARE

https://inthesetimes.com/article/essential-workers-covid-pandemic-labor-exploitation-food-industry-trump-bezos

How this label is used to justify a social order in which workers are abused, discarded and left to die.

It's Been a Long Nightmare Before Christmas for UPS and Postal Workers ~~Alexandra Bradbury

 https://labornotes.org/2020/12/its-been-long-nightmare-christmas-ups-and-postal-workers

For postal and UPS workers, the peak season started in March with the pandemic... and it never let up. Photos: IMF Photo Cory Hancock (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), Michael Shea

“We did not sign up to be raped”: Women veterans fight back against military sexual trauma ~~ Johnnie Lewis

https://www.workers.org/2020/11/52749/

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This month two veterans, represented by the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Service Clinic, won a lawsuit against the U.S. Army for giving “bad paper” discharges to veterans with mental health diagnoses. The discharges include women victims of sexual assault, abuse and harassment, known collectively as Military Sexual Trauma (MST). Additionally, the lawsuit supported all veterans with diagnoses of traumatic brain injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who were given bad paper discharges. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/18/army-agrees-review-thousands-of-bad-paper-discharges-part-of-lawsuit-settlement.html

Americans Work Too Damn Much AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMIE MCCALLUM. ~~ Micah Uetricht

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/work-time-leisure-hours-overwork-labor

Workers in the United States have lost control of perhaps the most important aspect of their lives: their time. Getting that time back is crucial — for workers’ well-being, for democracy, and for weakening the tyrannical power of the boss.

Meatpacking Workers Say Attendance Policies Force Them to Work With Covid-19 Symptoms. ~~ HEATHER SCHLITZ

https://inthesetimes.com/article/meatpacking-workers-attendance-policy-covid-19

As the pandemic rages, punitive attendance policies at corporate meat plants coerce sick workers into showing up, according to activists, experts and the workers themselves.

The Taylor System—Man’s Enslavement by the Machine - V. Lenin

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/mar/13.htm

Capitalism cannot be at a standstill for a single moment. It must forever be moving forward. Competition, which is keenest in a period of crisis like the present, calls for the invention of an increasing number of new devices to reduce the cost of production. But the domination of capital converts all these devices into instruments for the further exploitation of the workers.

The Taylor system is one of these devices.

Paid Sick Leave and COVID 19

 

As Coronovirus Spreads, Which US Workers have Paid Sick Leave and Which Don't ~~ Drew Desilver

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/12/as-coronavirus-spreads-which-u-s-workers-have-paid-sick-leave-and-which-dont/

A Fair Day's Wages for a Fair Day's Work ~~F. Engels

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/05/07.htm

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work? But what is a fair day's wages, and what is a fair day's work?