Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg): Unemployment, Recognition and Meritocracy. Tamar Khitarishvili and Kijong Kim (Bard): The Great Recession and Unpaid Work Time in the United States: Does Poverty Matter? R. George Wright (Indiana): Toward a Federal Constitutional Right to Employment. Michael Z. Green (Texas A&M): How the NLRB's Light Still Shines on Anti-Discrimination Law Fifty Years After Title VII. Ann C. Hodges (Richmond): Trilogy Redux: Using Arbitration to Rebuild the Labor Movement. Josh Israel on the audacious new proposal to save the labor movement. Thanks to Noel Canning the country will likely face a pitched battle every five years that poses an existential threat to unions every time it is waged. Corey Robin on the Republican war on workers' rights. Dark money, dirty war: Mariya Strauss on the corporate crusade against low-wage workers. In North Dakota, there will be blood: David Cay Johnston on how the state has highest rate of worker deaths in country, thanks to lax regulations and the favor of the oil industry. S.E. Smith on why the U.S. is one of the world's worst places to work. Danielle Kurtzleben on 5 reasons US workers hate their jobs more than they used to. Bryce Covert on how Americans can work less, and on how taking away unemployment benefits doesn't make people get jobs. Brink Lindsey on why living on the dole is bad for you. Ben Casselman on how it’s hard to get off the couch when you’re unemployed. Jessica Goldstein on when you're unemployed: "The first thing to go is the caring”. How major U.S. industries break down by race and sex. Derek Thompson on the best- and worst-paid jobs in America in 1 ludicrously long chart — from Anesthesiologist to Z. Who do you actually work for? Lydia DePillis on how the future of the labor movement, and the livelihood of millions of workers, ride on the answer.
