Lina Moe

Oct 17, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Yannis Bougiatiotis |Lina Moe |Peter Dreier |Phyllis Jeffrey

An inventory of inequality (2022) | Quality Stock Arts / ShutterstockI know someone, a nurse, who doesn’t have health insurance. His employer, a staffing agency, bounces him from assignment to assignment—sometimes with only a day’s notice. Engaged in skilled care work that is profoundly dependent on the ability to maintain human relationships, he often finds himself treated more like a commodity than a care professional.

Oct 16, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Lina Moe |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Phyllis Jeffrey |Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Food delivery driver in traffic | Tricky_Shark / ShutterstockAsk any organizer and you’ll hear how hard it is to reach gig workers. These workers typically lack a physical place of work or regular schedule (though many work all the time), and their work is poorly measured in Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics datasets. The gig workers themselves agree this is a problem.

Sep 25, 2024 | stlouisfed.org | Lina Moe |William M. Rodgers III

Technological disruption doesn’t affect all workers equally. What have economists found in analyzing the effects automation and robots have on employment?

Jun 14, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Lina Moe

In 1524, a peasant uprising against grinding poverty and feudal rule swept across parts of what is now Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Though it was eventually crushed, the revolt gave rise to folk legends that endured for centuries, among them the story of a towering woman fighter. ‘Black Anna’, as she was known – likely based on the peasant leader Margaret Renner – is the central figure in the German artist Käthe Kollwitz’s striking graphic cycle, ‘The Peasants’ War’ (1901-1908).