The metropolitan region’s progressive groups have come together in a union-led, community-based movement for a sustainable city.
David Bensman
David Bensman is a professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers University. He is the co-author of Rusted Dreams: Hard Times in a Steel Community.
Security for a Precarious Workforce
What will it take, economically and politically, to broadly regularize employment?
Fair Work Schedules: The Next New Human Right
A great cultural transformation is driving demands for workers’ control of job schedules.
Workers on the Edge
Payroll fraud and the shift to contingent employment are robbing workers of wages, benefits, and job security—and stealing revenues owed to government.
A Long Haul
How the government’s policy to modernize trucks collides with its policies to promote high-wage jobs
Stuck on the Low Road
Deregulation turned truck driving from a good job into a bad one.
Now, thanks to local organizing and government action, there’s a better road.


