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Person in mask holding a sign that reads "Workers lives are essential! I stand in solidarity with Amazon workers."
Recent Posts by Sam Kern & Matt Smith on May 14th, 2020
The history of the labor movement shows that big business will go to great lengths to keep workers divided and maintain their power.
Photo of downtown Pittsburgh, the City of Steel. The land reaches a point where two rivers converge; large steel traffic bridges cross into the distance.
Recent Posts by The Editor on April 30th, 2020
Organizers on getting started, holding conversations about your workplace and building solidarity.
Recent Posts by tante on April 30th, 2020
The sheer existence of the Tech solution creates the “normal” regardless of whether the disease is actually contained and regardless of whether treatment exists and is accessible.
A gear in the shape of a flower.
Recent Posts by Nathan Schneider on April 15th, 2020
The challenges to open source's "noble neutrality."
Blank envelope with a pen across it.
Issue 42 by Yanyi on October 19th, 2016
Two poems about the ways I'm tokenized and asked to respond as a technical POC in the industry.
A lone student walking across a brick walkway, outlined dramatically by rows of stairs in black and white.
Issue 41 by Fallen Matthews on September 8th, 2016
Any contribution I make will either be ignored or exploited to sell their idyllic, inactive intellectualism.
Rows and rows of books in a library, on vast curving shelves.
Issue 33 by Allana Mayer on February 24th, 2016
Crowdsourcing and microtransactions are two halves of the same coin: they both mark new stages in the continuing devaluation of labour.
An electric sign above a garage reading 'Capitalism Kills Love.'
Issue 33 by Melissa King on February 23rd, 2016
Capitalism is an economic system of convenience… that is, the convenience of management and CEOs.
Weights gym equipment shot in black and white.
Issue 28 by Stephen Kearse on October 13th, 2015
DDR didn’t teach me to work myself into oblivion, propelled by shame and chalky smoothies. DDR taught me to get some water, sit down, talk to a friend, send a text, lean on that rail. For DDR, exercise wasn’t some frantic tailspin toward some punishing end.
Pile of multi-colored eggs.
Issue 27 by Cameron G. on September 15th, 2015
The industries we know and love are being built on our free labor, our hunt for “experience,” and our naivety about our worth.