How Corporations Prevent Workers From Getting Ahead
Reading Time: 3 minutes New research reveals the ways big businesses suppress wage growth, and thus the prospects of upward mobility for their workers
Surveillance Capitalism: Threat to Democracy?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The widespread adoption of surveillance-based business practices by tech giants Amazon, Google, and Facebook poses an existential threat to a democratic capitalist society.
Deepening Polarization: Why We Can’t All Just Get Along
Reading Time: 4 minutes Recent research reveals that the political divide in America is no longer just about two competing ideologies; it’s evolved into social and economic class conflict; and more recently, geographic self-segregation — a balkanization that is intensifying alienation, distrust, anger, and resentment among us.
Big Brother at Work: Employee Monitoring in the Analytics Age
Reading Time: 3 minutes Playing upon employers’ desires for greater “employee engagement” and more quantitative rationales for hiring decisions and performance appraisals, a new generation of employee surveillance and analytic technologies is creating advanced ways for managers to pick out the high-performers from the rest of their workforce.