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Noam Scheiber

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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 · 28/09/2026
Nuclear scientists help derail Reagan's Star Wars missile-defense program when they criticized it in the 1980s. Of all the analogies b/w AI and nukes over the past two weeks, that one may be the most relevant. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/b...
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How Scientists Can Shape Public Opinion Over A.I. Risks (Gift Article)
Artificial intelligence workers may have leverage to make the world safer.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"If you’re a white working-class guy in an elite profession, you’re also facing pretty serious barriers.” Some very persuasive evidence that the "class ceiling" is a huge problem for white-collar workers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations (Gift Article)
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another example of the rancor that engulfed American workplaces after 10.7.23: The EEOC has found that Cisco likely allowed harassment of pro-Palestinian employees. Cisco denies the allegation. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b...
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Cisco Likely Allowed Harassment of Pro-Palestinian Workers, EEOC Says (Gift Article)
The finding by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said there was reason to believe that the tech giant subjected employees to a hostile environment.
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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 · 10/09/2026
If you're lucky, someone will eventually review your book in a way that almost makes you jealous of their insights into the material. It's fair to say that the historian Gabe Winant has just published that review of my book. dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
And here's a 2022 paper by them exploring the phenomenon. They're circulating a 2026 version to fellow economists, but it's not online yet papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Boomerang College Kids: Unemployment, Job Mismatch and Coresidence
Labor market outcomes for young college graduates have deteriorated substantially in the last twenty five years, and more of them are residing with their parent
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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 · 02/08/2026
More and more college grads are moving home after graduation. It reflects the combination of a lousy job market, high rent and the easing of a social stigma www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/b...
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More Young College Graduates Are Living At Home. Is That a Bad Thing? (Gift Article)
More young adults are living with their parents. The development suggests that they face a weak job market, but also that fewer face stigma in returning to the roost.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Companies are adopting AI much faster than they can identify the blindspots that AI introduces. One example: Many are adding AI agents to their org charts as bona fide employees. But human managers check the work of AI employees much less carefully, increasing errors www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/b...
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We’re Only Starting to Grasp the Pitfalls of Using A.I. at Work
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Ergo www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/b...
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Why College Graduates Feel Betrayed
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
From the Economic Policy Institute: "In the long run, the college degree is losing its edge: Unemployment for young college graduates has risen in historical terms, and the college wage premium has been flat or falling in recent years." www.epi.org/blog/class-o...
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Class of 2026: Young college graduates face a weaker labor market—but a more mixed picture than the headlines suggest
Over the last couple of years, the overall labor market has slowly weakened—with many arguing that the weakening is most pronounced for young college graduates (whom we define as young workers ages 22...
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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 · 07/04/2026
But whereas the well-staffed, well-trained Apple stores used to be an asset in ambitious new rollouts—like for the Apple Watch in 2015—this time the understaffed, poorly trained Apple workers turned into a liability. 11/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It was hardly the only reason the Vision Pro flopped—the price tag didn’t help. Neither did the shortage of useful apps, the relatively heavy weight (~1.5 pounds), and the weird “persona” that showed up on people’s screens when you did a video call. 10/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Many employees struggled to place the headset on people’s heads properly, which could result in blurry images. 9/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Within about a week, Apple abandoned the idea that Apple store workers should become fluent in the script, and let them read it from iPads. A far cry from the kind of showmanship Jobs was famous for. 8/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The temps and recent hires didn’t have any experience with a complicated rollout, and it showed in many cases. 7/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“I got a 20-minute demo. I got maybe 30 minutes to review the script, did a demo on one person who had went to Cupertino, and was thrown from the nest,” said Sam Hernandez, a longtime salesperson at a flagship Apple Store in Chicago. 6/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
When it came to the Vision Pro, many managers didn’t give employees time to do the training mandated by Cupertino. 5/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Training for Apple store employees has shifted from a classroom style format to computer modules that new hires click through. 4/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
But the corporate folks in Cupertino didn’t quite grasp that this was no longer Steve Jobs’ Apple Store. During 15 years under Tim Cook, the stores have become increasingly understaffed and have relied much more heavily on temps. 3/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Apple HQ choreographed an elaborate rollout for its $3,500 mixed-reality headset, which required store workers to learn a 20-25 min script and get more than five hours of training. 2/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My book on the college-educated working class is out today! Here’s an excerpt in WIRED about how the chaotic rollout of the Apple Vision Pro was the last straw for a lot of Apple workers. 1/ www.wired.com/story/book-e...
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How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple
Even before the headset’s release, the workforce at Apple Stores was under duress. Trying to get customers interested in the Vision Pro made it worse.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Special thanks to Joe Lenski at SSRS for this data. 11/ ssrs.com/about/teams/...
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Joe Lenski - SSRS
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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 · 27/03/2026
Then there’s this striking Gallup poll from a few days ago. The portion of college grads who said it was a good time to look for a quality job was over 70% as recently as 2022. By late last year it had dropped to 19%. 8/ www.gallup.com/workplace/70...
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U.S. Worker Thriving Declines as Job Market Pessimism Grows
For the first time in Gallup's tracking, more U.S. workers are struggling than thriving. Job market confidence has dropped sharply with about half of employees watching for better opportunities.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Last year, the exact same portion of college grads and high school grads said they expected to be better off in a year—32 percent—while college grads were much *more* likely to predict they would be worse off. 7/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Relatedly, beginning in the 1960s, college grads were generally much more optimistic about their future financial situation than people with only a high school diploma. But that gap dropped substantially over the last decade. 6/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you look at 4-year-averages, college grads have never been more pessimistic than over the past four years. 5/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
There are tons of data points showing how demoralized college grads are, but a few really caught my eye. The first is from the University of Michigan, which allows you to break out consumer sentiment by education level. data.sca.isr.umich.edu/demographic-... 4/
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Surveys of Consumers - Tables
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you’re interested in the topic, my book “Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College Educated Working Class,” comes out April 7. 3/ us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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Mutiny
The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America.In recent years, young college grads have faced an ...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A generation of people in their 20s and 30s was told that if they do all this homework and take these AP classes and run up this debt and get their degree, their place in the upper-middle class would be secure. And suffice it to say it hasn’t worked out that way for a lot of them 2/
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I have a story up today about why young college grads are feeling so angry: It’s more than just rising unemployment and the threat of AI. It’s a deep sense of betrayal. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/b...
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Why College Graduates Feel Betrayed
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thank you Kate! bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Are you using AI at work? Please tell us how! And whether it's make you feel more anxious or less... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
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Are You Using A.I. at Work? We Want to Hear From You.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
More and more white collar workers are hiring heart rate variability coaches to get ahead at work. Is that a good idea? Maybe... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
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When Your Apple Watch Becomes an Office Taskmaster
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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 · 03/03/2026
Trump admin abandons cases against big law firms that resisted its exec orders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
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Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Orders on Law Firms
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Dan Ariely, the best-selling behavioral scientist, reached out to Jeffrey Epstein in hopes of advancing his research. Then the relationship evolved www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...
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He Researched Dishonesty. He Got Friendly With Jeffrey Epstein.
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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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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In 2022, a group of SpaceX employees wrote an open letter asking the co to distance itself from Elon Musk's online behavior. They were fired and the NLRB opened an investigation. Then Musk funded Trump's election win. Now, the Trump NLRB has dismissed the case. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...
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Top Labor Regulator Dismisses Charges Against SpaceX
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The country's top labor regulator has dismissed a case against SpaceX for firing 8 workers who criticized Elon Musk. Regulators “seem to have lost their independence and mission to protect workers rights," said the Biden prosecutor who brought the case www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...
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Top Labor Regulator Dismisses Charges Against SpaceX
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Apropos of today's big layoff announcement at Amazon, I have a piece about why tech workers at Amazon and other big companies continue to challenge their employers even as the companies aggressively cut jobs. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
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Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Great review today of Jason Zengerle's essential new book on Tucker Carlson www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
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How Did Tucker Carlson Get This Way? How Did America?
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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 · 20/01/2026
The firm said that “All decisions regarding the work force reduction were driven by business considerations that started long before the unionization effort.”
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Now it’s up to me to design some prophylaxis against any such future efforts.” An email from a manager at Snohetta, a prominent architecture firm accused by the NLRB of laying off 8 employees in retaliation for trying to unionize www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/b...
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Prominent Architecture Firm Is Accused of Illegally Ousting Employees
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The firm said that “All decisions regarding the work force reduction were driven by business considerations that started long before the unionization effort.”
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
In a discussion of the union campaign not long before the layoffs, a senior manager wrote in an email: “Now it’s up to me to design some prophylaxis against any such future efforts.”
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