Higher education
fromThe New Yorker
1 week agoThe Economist Who Wants to Solve America's Wage Problem
Empowering workers and establishing mandatory wage standards across industries is essential for addressing wage inequality.
Within the workplace, the content and conditions of work are largely controlled by employers who often have an interest in degrading the quality of work, both to increase productivity and to increase their control over employees in the workplace. Outside the workplace, employers have both an incentive and the power to undermine measures that would improve the quality of work through the political process.