5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American sociologist at Berkeley who wrote The Managed Heart and Strangers in Their Own Land — developing the concept of emotional labor (managing one's feelings as part of a job) and conducting a deep sociological investigation of the emotional life of Trump's rural Louisiana supporters.
Tyler Cowen's 2013 argument — that technology is bifurcating labor markets into high-skill workers who collaborate effectively with machines and low-skill workers who are displaced by them — one of the first serious books about AI and labor polarization.
American novelist — Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 — author of The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden — who created the most influential fiction about American labor and the Depression.
John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — following the Joad family's migration from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California — the most politically effective American novel and the definitive literary account of the Great Depression.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration — federal agency responsible for setting and enforcing workplace safety standards across American industries.