From the site:
The left will fight Donald Trump’s plans for remaking the economy in the interests of finance, energy extraction, and CEOs. But the left also needs to figure out its own approach to the economy—one that connects with workers who feel left behind and delivers in a way that Trump’s economics will not.
One useful tool in this regard is The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It by David Weil. This underappreciated book describes the “fissured workplace”: the result of corporations increasingly distributing activities through an extensive network of contracting, outsourcing, franchising, and ownership. Workers are less likely to work for the corporation that ultimately profits from their labor; instead, they work for a loose network of middlemen or as independent contractors. Their work is still monitored and controlled as closely as any other office worker, but they lose the protections of labor law and the ability to fully enjoy the rewards of economic growth.
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