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Fig. 1. The spectre of Death, in the form of a large skeleton, rises with the smoke and flames of the burning Asch Building during the Triangle fire, as people jump and fall to their death. Artist unknown, from International Ladies Garment Workers Union Photographs (1885-1985) at The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Fig. 2. Yeah, this was me. The sign says, “If you’re whining about a labor shortage, STOP ignoring my job applications!” And the QR-code leads here. Photograph by author, January 16, 2023.

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Greg Rosalsky, “Is There Really A Truck Driver Shortage?” National Public Radio, May 25, 2021, https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/25/999784202/is-there-really-a-truck-driver-shortage

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Eli Rosenberg, “These businesses found a way around the worker shortage: Raising wages to $15 an hour or more,” Washington Post, June 10, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/10/worker-shortage-raising-wages/

Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise, and Grace Ashford, “The Amazon That Customers Don’t See,” New York Times, June 15, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-workers.html

Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise and Grace Ashford, “Power and Peril: 5 Takeaways on Amazon’s Employment Machine,” New York Times, June 16, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/us/politics/amazon-warehouse-workers.html

Abha Bhattarai, “Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end job,’” Washington Post, June 21, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/21/retail-workers-quitting-jobs/

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Heather Long and Andrew Van Dam, “States that cut unemployment early aren’t seeing a hiring boom, but who gets hired is changing,” Washington Post, July 27, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/27/unemployment-insurance-go-away/

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Nick Timiraos, “Fed Faces New Challenge Spelling Out Employment Goals,” Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2021, https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-faces-new-challenge-spelling-out-employment-goals-11630229402

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Joe Napsha, “Western Pa. business owners lament: Where have all the workers gone?” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 5, 2021, https://triblive.com/local/regional/western-pa-businesses-owners-lament-where-have-all-the-workers-gone/

Heather Long, “‘The pay is absolute crap’: Child-care workers are quitting rapidly, a red flag for the economy,” Washington Post, September 19, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/19/childcare-workers-quit/

Eli Rosenberg, Abha Bhattarai, and Andrew Van Dam, “A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage,” Washington Post, October 12, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/12/jolts-workers-quitting-august-pandemic/

Derek Thompson, “The Great Resignation Is Accelerating,” Atlantic, October 15, 2021, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/great-resignation-accelerating/620382/

Dominick Reuter, “A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got one interview,” Business Insider, October 19, 2021, https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-applied-to-60-jobs-got-one-interview-labor-shortage-2021-10

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Holly Harrar, “Gov. Wolf signs new order to protect workers, raise minimum wage,” WFMZ, October 24, 2021, https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/gov-wolf-signs-new-order-to-protect-workers-raise-minimum-wage/article_bfd7ca56-34ca-11ec-b610-d3b548c20d8d.html

Heather Long and Eli Rosenberg, “Why millions of job seekers aren’t getting hired in this hot job market,” Washington Post, November 8, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/08/job-search-not-getting-hired/

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Jay Greene, “Labor board calls for revote at Amazon warehouse in Alabama in major victory for union,” Washington Post, November 29, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/29/amazon-warehouse-union-revote/

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Jim Martin, “Erie job market earns low marks in national study; how concerned should we be?” Erie Times-News, June 8, 2022, https://www.goerie.com/story/business/2022/06/09/erie-investments-have-topped-600-million-has-it-made-a-difference/65357595007/

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Lauren Kaori Gurley, “Record hot labor market has Minnesota scrambling for workers,” Washington Post, September 4, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/04/minnesota-jobs-unemployment-rate/

William Horobin and Carolynn Look, “Lagarde Says ECB ‘Absolutely’ Must Avoid Second-Round Effects,” Bloomberg, September 16, 2022, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-16/lagarde-says-ecb-absolutely-must-avoid-second-round-effects

Sarah Hansen, “Why a Strong Jobs Report Is Actually Bad News for Investors,” Sacramento Bee, October 6, 2022, https://www.miamiherald.com/money/what-september-jobs-means-for-stocks/

Greg Jaffe, “Howard Schultz’s fight to stop a Starbucks barista uprising,” Washington Post, October 8, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/08/starbucks-union-ceo-howard-schultz/

Katy Stech Ferek, “Congressional Leaders Commit to Quickly Pass Legislation to Avert Rail Strike,” Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2022, https://www.wsj.com/articles/congressional-leaders-commit-to-quickly-pass-legislation-to-avert-rail-strike-11669744002

Catherine Rampell, “Where are the workers, really?” Washington Post, December 2, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/02/jobs-report-labor-participation-low-missing-workers/

Prarthana Prakash, “Men are dropping out of the labor force because they’re upset about their social status, according to a new study,” Fortune, December 7, 2022, https://fortune.com/2022/12/07/men-dropping-out-work-force-status-study/

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Imani Moise, “Laid-Off Workers Are Flooded With Fake Job Offers,” Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/laid-off-workers-are-flooded-with-fake-job-offers-11673387875

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Darcy Jimenez, “US Cities Where Minimum Wage Goes The Furthest, Visualized,” Digg, January 17, 2023, https://digg.com/finance/link/minimum-wage-us-cities-visualized-4GpKmRQhZa

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Cory Doctorow, “Why the Fed wants to crush workers,” Medium, January 19, 2023, https://doctorow.medium.com/why-the-fed-wants-to-crush-workers-ff086f3b952a

Jon Schwarz, “In Confidential Memo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Celebrated Unemployment as a ‘Worker-Discipline Device,’” Intercept, January 24, 2023, https://theintercept.com/2023/01/24/unemployment-inflation-janet-yellen/

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Grace Dean, “A tech CEO apologized for quoting Martin Luther King Jr. when announcing layoffs, calling it ‘inappropriate and insensitive,’” Business Insider, February 1, 2023, https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-layoffs-pagerduty-ceo-apologizes-martin-luther-king-jr-quote-2023-2

Abha Bhattarai and Maggie Penman, “Restaurants can’t find workers because they’ve found better jobs,” Washington Post, February 3, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/03/worker-shortage-restaurants-hotels-economy/

Justin Lahart, “Giving Labor Less of the American Pie,” Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/giving-labor-less-of-the-american-pie-11675792087

Nick Timiraos, “Fed’s Jerome Powell Braces for Longer Inflation Fight Amid Hiring Surge,” Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/feds-jerome-powell-to-address-economic-outlook-with-hiring-surge-in-spotlight-11675781503

Jane Thier, “Overemployment is here: Nearly half of workers have more than one full-time job,” Fortune, February 13, 2023, https://fortune.com/2023/02/13/overemployed-workers-juggling-full-time-jobs/

Travis Bland, “NC Strip Club Says Models Can’t Deny It Info On Photos,” Law360, February 22, 2023, https://www.law360.com/consumerprotection/articles/1578843

Spencer Jakab, “Lousy Tippers Are Just Misunderstood,” Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/lousy-tippers-are-just-misunderstood-63094163

Daniel de Visé, “Twenty high-paying jobs that don’t require a college degree,” Hill, February 22, 2023, https://thehill.com/business/3863716-twenty-high-paying-jobs-that-dont-require-a-college-degree/

Tim Ryan, “Judge Drops Nationwide Injunction Against Starbucks,” Law360, February 23, 2023, https://www.law360.com/employment/articles/1579417

Grace Elletson, “Bulk Of Ex-Whole Foods Worker’s ADA Suit Moves Ahead,” Law360, February 24, 2023, https://www.law360.com/employment/articles/1579839

Amber Burton and Paolo Confino, “Employers are taking the easy way out and cutting employees through ‘backdoor layoffs,’” Fortune, February 28, 2023, https://fortune.com/2023/02/28/job-cuts-backdoor-layoffs-quitting/

Jacob Bogage, “Starbucks committed ‘egregious’ violations in battling union, judge rules,” Washington Post, March 1, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/01/starbucks-union-ruling-buffalo/

Gerrit De Vynck, Caroline O’Donovan, and Naomi Nix, “The age of the Silicon Valley ‘moonshot’ is over,” Washington Post, March 2, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/02/big-tech-moonshots-google-meta-amazon/

Annie Lowrey, “Low-Wage Jobs Are Becoming Middle-Class Jobs,” Atlantic, March 4, 2023, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/wage-growth-income-inequality-labor-market/673277/

Ryan Deto, “UPMC nurse lost job for speaking publicly about staffing shortages, labor complaint says,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 10, 2023, https://triblive.com/local/regional/upmc-nurse-lost-job-for-speaking-publicly-about-staffing-shortages-labor-complaint-says/

Te-Ping Chen, “Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake,” Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-plum-job-listing-may-just-be-a-ghost-3aafc794

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Nick Bilton, “Big Tech Companies Are Testing How Far They Can Slash Staff,” Vanity Fair, March 29, 2023, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/big-tech-layoffs-2023-twitter-meta-amazon-google

Justin Lahart, “Still Desperately Seeking Workers,” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/still-desperately-seeking-workers-92126ddf

Callum Borchers, “Bosses Want Hard Workers—So They’re Hiring Older People,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-older-workers-work-harder-some-bosses-think-so-c4088c7d

Preetika Rana, Lauren Thomas, and Emily Glazer, “Lyft to Cut at Least 1,200 Jobs in New Round of Layoffs to Reduce Costs,” Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-to-cut-at-least-1-200-jobs-in-new-round-of-layoffs-to-reduce-costs-da423e53

Justin Lahart, “Help Still Wanted: Fewer Job Openings Won’t Faze the Fed,” Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/help-still-wanted-fewer-job-openings-wont-faze-the-fed-6afb3424

Lizzy McLellan Ravitch, “A tight job market dangled opportunity. Instead, workers found burnout and uncertainty,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 29, 2023, https://www.inquirer.com/jobs/labor/labor-market-burnout-wages-philadelphia-federal-reserve-20230529.html

Marjorie Cohn, “Supreme Court Slashed Legal Protections for Striking. Only Jackson Dissented,” Truthout, June 5, 2023, https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-slashed-legal-protections-for-striking-only-jackson-dissented/

Gabriel T. Rubin and Christine Mai-Duc, “West Coast States Rode the Tech Boom. Now They Face Higher Unemployment, Falling Wages,” Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/west-coast-states-rode-the-tech-boom-now-they-face-higher-unemployment-falling-wages-83318105

Timothy Noah, “The Real Reasons Why Workers Are Producing Less,” New Republic, June 6, 2023, https://newrepublic.com/article/173230/real-reasons-workers-producing-less

Lizzy McLellan Ravitch, “Workers again ponder whether their jobs are essential, as poor air quality poses risk to outdoor employees,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 8, 2023, https://www.inquirer.com/news/outdoor-work-risks-smoke-air-quality-philadelphia-20230608.html

Beth Saunders, “The US has a child labor problem – recalling an embarrassing past that Americans may think they’ve left behind,” Conversation, June 9, 2023, https://theconversation.com/the-us-has-a-child-labor-problem-recalling-an-embarrassing-past-that-americans-may-think-theyve-left-behind-204078

Gillian Harvey, “The ‘work hard and you’ll get a good job’ mantra is no longer true – so what do I tell my kids?” Guardian, June 12, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/12/work-hard-good-job-kids-young-people-future

Steve Bohnel, “Fitzgerald vetoes minimum wage hike bill, saying it violates county charter,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 14, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2023/06/13/fitzgerald-vetoes-minimum-wage-hike-bill-stating-it-violates-county-charter/stories/202306130122

Oona Goodin-Smith, “Starbucks ordered to pay $25.6M to manager who says she was fired for being white after viral Philly arrests,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 14, 2023, https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/starbucks-philadelphia-manager-white-verdict-philadelphia-black-men-arrests-20230614.html

Eric Levitz, “Larry Summers Was Wrong About Inflation,” New York, June 14, 2023, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/larry-summers-was-wrong-about-inflation.html

Kate Aronoff, “The Teamsters’ Strike Has Already Claimed a Climate Win,” New Republic, June 16, 2023, https://newrepublic.com/post/173746/teamsters-strike-already-claimed-climate-win

Lora Kelley, “Why It Matters Who Caused Inflation,” Atlantic, June 16, 2023, https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/06/why-it-matters-who-caused-inflation/674448/

Greg Jaffe, “Lexi Rizzo fought to unionize her Starbucks. Now she’s out of a job. Her struggle is just beginning,” Washington Post, June 17, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2023/starbucks-union-fired-worker/

Madhumita Murgia and Anjli Raval, “AI in recruitment: the death knell of the CV?” Financial Times, June 18, 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/98e5f47a-7d0d-4e63-9a63-ff36d62782b8

Emma Goldberg, “Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase,” New York Times, June 20, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/business/return-to-office-remote-work.html

Gillian McGoldrick, “Pa. House votes to raise state minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 2023, https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-house-passes-bill-raising-minimum-wage-20230620.html

Ryan Deto, “Allegheny County Council overrides Fitzgerald veto, enacts county-worker minimum wage,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 20, 2023, https://triblive.com/local/allegheny-county-council-overrides-fitzgerald-veto-enacts-county-worker-minimum-wage/

Charlie Wolfson, “Allegheny County Executive Fitzgerald sues to nix pay floor for county workers,” Public Source, June 28, 2023, https://www.publicsource.org/allegheny-county-council-overrides-fitzgerald-veto-minimum-wage/

Sarah Chaney Cambon, “Wage Gains, Low Unemployment Keep Pressure on Fed; Hiring Cooled in June,” Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/june-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-economy-growth-2023-af4d6547

Abha Bhattarai, “Businesses are cutting workers’ hours in a warning sign for the economy,” Washington Post, July 11, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/11/part-time-jobs-economy/

Tim Henderson, “Despite pandemic pay boost, low-wage workers still can’t afford basic needs,” Pennsylvania Capital-Star, July 11, 2023, https://www.penncapital-star.com/government-politics/despite-pandemic-pay-boost-low-wage-workers-still-cant-afford-basic-needs/

Beth Pinsker, “150 million jobs will shift to older workers by 2031,” MarketWatch, July 17, 2023, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/150-million-jobs-will-shift-to-older-workers-by-2031-aa025ec4

Danielle Abril, “Job applicants are battling AI résumé filters with a hack,” Washington Post, July 24, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/24/white-font-resume-tip-keywords/

Jack Shenker, “‘To them, we are like robots. The things that make us human are ground out of you’: the inside story of a strike at Amazon,” Guardian, July 29, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/29/to-them-we-are-like-robots-inside-story-of-a-strike-at-amazon

Michael Sainato, “Big business lobbies against heat protections for workers as US boils,” Guardian, July 31, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/31/heat-protections-workers-big-business-lobbies?CMP=GTUS_email

Harriet Torry, “Where to Find a $4-an-Hour Math Tutor With a Ph.D.? Overseas,” Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-to-find-a-4-an-hour-math-tutor-with-a-ph-d-overseas-b5d9afce

Alexandra Martinez, “Workers continue to call for a boycott a year after Amy’s Kitchen closed a major factory,” Prism, August 15, 2023, https://prismreports.org/2023/08/15/amys-kitchen-workers-boycott-one-year/

Jack Kelly, “White-Collar Workers Face Hyperspecialization, Fewer Job Openings And Threats To Their Job Security,” Forbes, August 16, 2023, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/08/16/white-collar-workers-face-hyperspecialization-fewer-job-openings-and-threats-to-their-job-security/

Chris Isidore, “Teamster members ratify deal at UPS, putting strike threat to rest,” CNN, August 23, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/business/ups-strike-vote-teamsters-union/index.html

Joe Napsha, “Pittsburgh area jobless rate hits record low, but workforce levels remain down,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 29, 2023, https://triblive.com/local/regional/pittsburgh-area-jobless-rate-hits-record-low-but-workforce-levels-remain-down/

Cassie Miller, “Pennsylvania sees ‘dramatic increase’ in reports of child labor law violations,” Pennsylvania Capital-Star, September 5, 2023, https://www.penncapital-star.com/blog/pennsylvania-sees-dramatic-increase-in-reports-of-child-labor-law-violations/

Kate Aronoff, “Electric Vehicles Have Become a Weapon in the War on Autoworkers,” New Republic, September 13, 2023, https://newrepublic.com/article/175507/uaw-electric-vehicles-strike-workers

Te-Ping Chen and Vanessa Fuhrmans, “The ‘Hot’ Labor Market Isn’t Helping a Certain Group of Jobseekers,” Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/if-the-job-market-is-so-great-why-do-i-feel-so-stuck-391bdf11

Annie Palmer, “Amazon’s focus on speed, surveillance drives higher warehouse worker injuries, study finds,” CNBC, October 25, 2023, https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/25/study-amazons-focus-on-speed-surveillance-drives-worker-injuries.html

Steve Bonnel, “A court sides with Rich Fitzgerald in his fight with lawmakers over the minimum wage for county employees,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 6, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2023/12/06/allegheny-county-government-workers-minimum-wage-court-ruling/stories/202312060105

Charlie Wolfson, “Innamorato raises minimum wage for county employees, mirroring law Fitzgerald vetoed,” Pittsburgh Public Source, January 3, 2024, https://www.publicsource.org/sara-innamorato-rasies-allegheny-county-employees-executive/

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