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Labor reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work. Email: jeidelson at bloomberg dot net. (Usual disclaimers.) On parental leave!

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Josh Eidelson’s Biography

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Josh Eidelson covers labor as a contributing writer at The Nation, Salon, and In These Times. He is a contributor at The American Prospect, Alternet, and Dissent. His work has also appeared at outlets including Washington Monthly, Slate, Dollars and Sense, and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. His reporting on the Walmart strike wave received a Sidney award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.

After receiving his MA in Political Science from Yale, Eidelson spent five years as a unio…

Josh Eidelson’s Journalist Portfolio

Alt-Labor

Alt-Labor

Nonunion workers’ groups are gathering strength across the country. But will they ever make the kind of impac…

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The Great Walmart Walkout | The Nation

The Great Walmart Walkout | The Nation

The new labor campaign against the retail giant faces daunting odds, and the stakes are high: most of us live…

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In rare strike, NYC fast-food workers walk out

In rare strike, NYC fast-food workers walk out

After a Black Friday action at Wal-Mart, NYC fast-food workers walk out, challenging a nearly union-free indu…

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Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Some Workers

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Silicosis is a killer that’s been at large for millennia. It’s an incurable workplace disease caused by breathing in dust with tiny, jagged particles of respirable crystalline silica, which is released by cutting or crushing objects like stone or gravel. These invaders, each less than one-tenth the width of a human hair, are difficult to keep out of your body; mucus is no match for them.
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‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers

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Photo Illustration by 731; Photos: Getty Images (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Silicosis is a killer that’s been at large for millennia.
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Lawmakers Say Trump NLRB’s Amazon Deals Look ‘Ethically Dubious’

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Lawmakers are seeking records of communications between corporate interests and Crystal Carey, the general counsel of the US National Labor Relations Board, voicing alarm about the agency’s treatment of her former client Amazon.com Inc. In a Monday letter to Carey, congressional Democrats , and said they were concerned Carey hadn’t recused herself from cases involving Amazon, which she’d represented as a partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
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Awards

Sidney Award (Sidney Hillman Foundation)

2012

For “an outstanding piece of socially-conscious journalism.”

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