Noam Scheiber — Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
NYT reporter Noam Scheiber examines a disillusioned generation's efforts to reclaim dignity and take on corporate America through labor activism.
Why we picked this
The new labor movement looks nothing like the old one — it's driven by college-educated workers who expected professional careers and got precarity instead. Scheiber has been covering this shift at the Times for years.
The labor revival of the 2020s has been driven by an unlikely group: college-educated workers who were promised professional careers and instead found themselves in jobs that offered neither the stability nor the dignity they expected. Noam Scheiber, who covers labor for the New York Times, traces how this disillusionment has fueled a new generation of workplace organizing.
From tech workers to baristas to graduate students, Scheiber documents a generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America — not through traditional union channels but through new forms of collective action that reflect the specific frustrations of educated workers in a gig economy.
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