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Relief for Cab Drivers
For many taxi drivers in New York City, their livelihood has become a form of debt bondage. They feel that the city and its bankers have swindled them, and they’re demanding relief. Taxi drivers rally on April 7 at City Hall in New York City (NYTWA via Twitter)
This article is part of Belabored Stories, a series by Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen featuring short accounts of what workers are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. Send your stories to belabored@dissentmagazine.org.
For about two decades, Mouhamadou Aliyu has driven his cab through the streets of New York, but for the past several years, his life has been on a downhill slide. First, his cabâwhich had long been his most prized asset, and which he expected to leave to his childrenâdragged him, and thousands of other cab drivers, into a financial quagmire. Then, during the pandemic, his income from cab fares evaporated.
Los Deliveristas Unidos Demand Justice
“One of our dreams that we have as workers is to be treated as essential workers. We just donât want people to say that we are essential workers, but to be treated as that.” Delivery workers rally in October 2020 in Times Square to bring attention to increased bike thefts (Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress via Getty Images)
This article is part of Belabored Stories, a series by Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen featuring short accounts of what workers are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. Send your stories to belabored@dissentmagazine.org.
The streets of New York City are eerily quiet these days. Millions shelter at home, and commercial activity has been stifled by the pandemic. But one sound pierces the chilly air constantly: the whirr of the electric bicycles that delivery workers ride to bring fresh meals from restaurant kitchens to apartments across the city.
Editors ▪ December 30, 2020 Cover illustrations by John Michael Snowden and Molly Crabapple
We wanted to share some of our favorite articles from
Dissent in 2020.
In our first print issue this year, Democracy and Barbarism, Jedediah Britton-Purdy wove together the crises that had roiled American society long before the coronavirus, both in an article on carbon democracy cowritten with Alyssa Battistoni and a searching discussion with Aziz Rana. Our spring issue featured a section on the contemporary right, brought to you by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell of the
Know Your Enemy podcast and historian Lauren Stokes, that featured an insightful forum of ex-conservatives. Our summer issue combined analysis of the pandemic and a crucial U.S. election year. And our fall issue, Technology and the Crisis of Work, featured a collection of timely socialist-feminist essays guest edited by Katrina Forrester and Moira Weigel, including essays about the
Harvard Workers Left Out in the Cold
In January the university plans to cut the compensation of its janitorial staff. Contracted workers could get nothing. Harvard Yard (Chensiyuan/Wikimedia Commons)
This article is part of Belabored Stories, a series by Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen featuring short accounts of what workers are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. Send your stories to belabored@dissentmagazine.org.
Harvard Universityâs campus has been dormant since last spring, and as COVID-19 cases rise through the winter, itâs unclear when normal classes will resume. The administration recently announced that the majority of the university’s staff would continue to work remotely through June 2021. For the janitorial staff, however, work never ended. Roughly 700 janitorial workers have held onto their jobs through the pandemic, maintaining their full union wages, even though in some cases they are working on a reduced s