From the Hedgehog Review, a special issue on work in the precarious economy. Ifeoma Ajunwa (Columbia), Kate Crawford (MIT) and Jason Schultz (NYU): Limitless Worker Surveillance. Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Harvard) and Paul M. Secunda (Marquette): Citizens Coerced: A Legislative Fix for Workplace Political Intimidation Post-Citizens United. Margaret Thornton (ANU): Work/Life or Work/Work? Corporate Legal Practice in the Twenty-First Century; and The Flexible Cyborg: Work-Life Balance in Legal Practice. Work-life policies aren’t just “something for the ladies”: Anna Louie Sussman interviews Heather Boushey, author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict. Gloria Feldt on why working parents should add “raising a kid” to their resumes.
The H-2 guest worker program, which brought in 150,000 legal foreign workers last year, isn’t supposed to deprive any American of a job — but many businesses go to extraordinary lengths to deny jobs to U.S. workers so they can hire foreigners instead. Carter Manes on the deactivation of the American worker: From factories to cubicles to open offices to Slack channels. Hummer limos, go-go dancers, a live alligator and glowing aliens in spandex at the national workers’ comp and disability expo — journey into the little-known workers’ comp industrial complex. Jessica Pishko on how unemployment is a full-time job: Although many have the impression that poor people lead easy lives, just getting the benefits they’re entitled to can be a struggle.
