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zwischenstadt:


Why service-sector jobs have gotten worse—and what can be done to improve pay and working conditions for low-wage workers


Drawing on fieldwork in Chicago, Degraded Work examines changes in two industries in which inferior job quality is assumed to be intrinsic: residential construction and food retail. Arguing that a growing service sector does not have to mean growing inequality, Marc Doussard proposes creative policy and organizing opportunities to improve job quality despite the overwhelming barriers to national political action.


Marc Doussard posits a new interpretation of the 2001 to 2006 profit-wage disjuncture that is innovative and fresh. This is the stuff of truly innovative urban-economic analysis.

David Wilson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

pay workers and implement an income cap for the wealthy

tyrannosaurus-trainwreck:

when-did-this-become-difficult:

the text of the bill here

al jazeera article explaining what happened here (article published 11/14/18)

KEY QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE:

If Congress does not pass legislation protecting the tribe and the legal challenge fails, the Mashpee would be stripped of their right to exercise sovereign jurisdiction over their land.

Jessie Little Doe Baird, the tribe’s vice-chairwoman, told Al Jazeera that loss of jurisdiction would prevent the tribe from running indigenous language schools, tribal courts, and housing projects, as well as its own police.

“We have our own police force, which is important because they’re tribal citizens and since we’ve had our own police force, none of our men have been beaten or shot, which we’ve had before with non-tribal police,” she said.

Okay, so:

Don’t know who your representative is? Find out here.

Don’t know how to contact your two senators? Find out here.

Senate version

When you pester your senator, you’re talking about S.2628

House version

When you pester your representative, you’re talking about H.R.5244

If you’re feeling nice, maybe drop Rep. Keating and Sen. Markey a line thanking their asses for introducing bills to not do the shitty thing.