Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. A Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives more precarious. Billionaires usually get what they want. They get the government they want, so long as they make the right donations.
They are taking on debt, cutting back on personal medical care, delaying rent payments and skipping meals so their kids can eat. Federal cuts are poised to make things worse.
A rare united general strike has shaken Portugal’s right-wing government, placing labour rights, precarity and collective power at the centre of national politics.
The American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing a spate of anti-worker bills in states across the country—the latest in the group’s onslaught on collective bargaining rights.
Loosely based on the 2005 film, the new Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV reboot uses the action-comedy genre to represent how impossible life is for so many people today, with two misfit unemployables turning to assassin work out of desperation.
In season two, Peacock's weird and funny satire "Killing It" carves up the myth of the American dream
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
Employment precarisation and environmental degradation are far from incompatible, they both result from the capitalist imperative to economise while producing evermore commodities.
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy introduced us to a working-class kid from Queens struggling to both save his city and pay the rent. Disney has wealthy new benefactors rewriting just what it means to be a superhero.
Series like 'Squid Game', 'Succession' and 'Dopesick' show the view from the bottom and very top of the economic ladder, and remind us there's a great distance between the two
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