Robert Ovetz - Dollars & Sense

Worker Power Comes from Workers

What we can learn from Asian garment-worker uprisings.

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok Jun 16, 2025

May/June 2025

A Trillion Dollars in One Year, and No New Taxes

The Wall Street Journal editors make it clear whose side they’re on.

John Miller Jun 2, 2025

The D&S Debrief

Interview: Short Staffing and Work Intensification

Mike Prokosch discusses his article on short staffing, when employers intentionally hire too few workers as a menthod of work intensification.

D&S Admin May 22, 2025

Robert Ovetz is a senior lecturer in political science and the Master of Public Administration program at San Jose State University, labor scholar, and rank-and-file organizer for the California Facul

3 articles

Issue 369

AI and the Future of Work

Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor.

Robert Ovetz Nov 1, 2023

Issue 363

Majority Checked

Why the Inflation Reduction Act won't benefit workers or save the planet.

Robert Ovetz Nov 1, 2022

Issue 362

Taylor's Digital Stopwatch

What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against "algorithmic management."

Robert Ovetz Sep 1, 2022