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Noam Scheiber

@noamscheiber.bsky.social
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I cover workers for the NY Times. New Book: "Mutiny, the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class." us.macmillan.com/books/978037461081…

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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Among other things, Winant addresses the (very fair) critique of my argument about the possibility of a political coalition b/w college grads and non-graduates, based on their shared identity as put-upon workers.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Here's the data on the rise in college grads age 23 to 27 living with their parents, courtesy of the economists Stefania Albanesi, Rania Gihleb and Ning Zhang
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
George Will has some thoughts on my book today. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202.... His take on the young college grads I wrote about:
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Among the recent job cuts at Citi were employees who were part of the bank’s 'AI Champions and Accelerators' program... [which] involves Citi employees who perform their day jobs while also working to persuade their colleagues to adopt A.I. technologies." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Finally, people who follow politics know that Zohran Mamdani won over a lot of frustrated college grads in NYC last fall. But I’m not sure people appreciate quite how big that margin was. For college grads under 30, Mamdani won 84%! 10/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The ritual book unboxing… out soon!
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Some news: Workers at a Patagonia in NYC file for a union election. They're organizing with RWDSU, which kicked off the union campaign at REI a few years ago.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Seems like a consequential appointment by Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/n...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I asked my publisher’s R&D dept to come up with alternative uses for my forthcoming book, and this was their best idea
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
A key development is that many in the tech industry now see themselves as regular workers, not co-owners or sought-after professionals or future executives and founders.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"In sharp contrast to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton & Biden, the Mamdani campaign was an intraparty insurrection seeking to displace what a dysfunctional and failed old guard. This semi-revolutionary element gave the Mamdani campaign its moral legitimacy: the reform of a moribund institution."
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Mamdani built an insurgency within the Dem Party primary electorate first by mobilizing traditionally quiescent young voters--many of whom have found that their B.A.s do not guarantee a good job or any job at all--and then drawing in nonwhite voters and more of the college-educated middle class."
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
From Tom Edsall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
There is a real epidemic in this country of people telling you they're sending you an email from their desk. If you're sending an email, can we just assume there's a decent chance it came from your desk and skip that part?
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Well, kinda depends who you ask but I hear what you're saying. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
And Republican views of the GOP remain strong. 91% favorable versus 8% unfavorable.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
By contrast, around this time in the previous cycle, Sept. 2023, 93% of Dems had a favorable view of their party vs 7% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/511979/...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
To understand why Democrats feel pressure to energize their base and not compromise to avoid a shut down, consider how weak their support is among Dem voters. A recent Gallup poll found only 73% of Dems have a favorable view of their party, vs 21% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/692978/...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A decade ago about 20% of the long-term unemployed were college grads. Today it's about 1/3. And the long-term unemployment rate for college grads has been rising pretty quickly the last two years. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Here's a chart we did for the story. College grads have gone from about 20% of the long-term unemployed a decade ago to about 1/3 today.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
NEWS: Hundreds of developers who work on the video game Diablo have just voted to unionize with CWA. The union trend in the industry started a few years ago with quality assurance testers but has now blown up to include all job categories.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Very excited to share the cover of my forthcoming book, “Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class.” It’s due out in April, and you can check out the summary and pre-order here if it’s of interest. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New Gallup poll shows that employee engagement at work still hasn't come close to recovering from its big drop during the pandemic. gallup.com/workplace/69...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“How you decrease cost is not by firing the cheapest employees. You take the cheapest employee and make them worth the expensive employee.” One of the most heated debates in the AI discourse is who's more vulnerable: entry-level workers or the middle-aged. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent employees a note today about the company's use of Gen AI. Among other things, Jassy said he expected it to lower headcount at the company in the next few years. www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Summer rocks and what’s even better is that it’s not even summer yet
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Hmm. "A final phase, allowing nonprofessionals to submit columns with help from an A.I. writing coach called Ember, could begin testing this fall. Human editors would review submissions before publication." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/b...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
NEWS: Video game workers at Microsoft have just reached a tentative contract with the company, the first in the industry in the U.S. after lots of union organizing over the past few years.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
One thing that Amazon and other big tech companies like Google are doing is having software engineers try to come up with new productivity-enhancing A.I. tools at the hackathons they periodically hold. 4/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
One big takeaway is that the work piles up so quickly that some Amazon software engineers say they don’t have much time to think about their code any more. 2/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
For example
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Fascinating Elizabeth Williamson piece on what it cost to recruit and train the government workers who have been let go. nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Also
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
An example of the kind of information that President Trump's EEOC sought from 20 major law firms last month--several of them reached agreements with the administration last week.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Wait, how is nonillion a word but not nonillionth? If the former is a word doesn’t the latter have to be?
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Just landed in my inbox from the White House Office of Communications.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Video game workers at Microsoft have voted to authorize a strike. Have been bargaining a contract for almost two years.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
UAW President Shawn Fain is navigating an interesting and somewhat complicated path. Praising Trump's tariffs, but pretty aggressively opposing most of the rest of the administration's agenda.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Well, keep us posted! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/b...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Some Friday cat-posting in honor of the late Kevin Drum. This one is a bit passive aggressive when she wants me to stop disturbing her sleep.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Budget cuts and existential crises come and go, but contractors continue to expand their business.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Starbucks workers and supporters were arrested for trespassing today after refusing to leave a Starbucks location in Chicago where they were protesting. Their union is highlighting contract negotiations that have stalled out over wages in recent months. The union represents more than 550 stores.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"There are signs that Mr. Musk’s political activities and reduced presence at Tesla are also stirring dissatisfaction within the company." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The new union contract at New York magazine includes the following AI protections. (Still needs to be ratified...)
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thousands of workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in North Carolina are voting on whether to unionize this week. Would be only the second Amazon warehouse to unionize in the U.S., after JFK8 on Staten Island in 2022. Tho a Whole Foods voted to unionize last month.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
From The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Anyone scanning their phone quickly might be forgiven for momentarily believing that Trump tapped an iconic 70s metal band to run the Environmental Protection Agency
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Winter sunset
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The first union election at an Amazon warehouse since 2022 will take place in Feb in North Carolina. More than 4,000 workers eligible to vote. Would be only the 2nd Amazon warehouse in the U.S. to unionize if they win.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Good god, had no idea this was even a thing. horrifying www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/u...
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