Resources

 
 

Articles

 

FAECT Article by Mardges Bacon

Architecture and Anti-Trust by Peggy Deamer

Antitrust and Architecture: Coordination not Domination by Nicolas Kemper

Why Don’t Architects Have Unions? by Jess Myers

Together We Build: Organising Architectural Labor by Jess Myers

Unions and Climate Action: A Conversation w/ R. Morales, J. Myers, + E. Iturbe

Architecture and Labor review of book by Peggy Deamer

Notes on Tafuri by M. D’Aprile + D. Spencer

Labor Parti by Zach Mortice

Status Check: Labor in Architecture by Andrew Daley

Reject Passion Embrace Workers by Andrew Daley

Death to the Calling by Marisa Cortright

Desacralising the Profession by Maris Cortright (starts on page 16)

The Struggle For Fair Labor Practices in Architecture Will Start in the Classroom by Marianela D’Aprile

Architecture Gave Me a Black Eye by Kendall Nicholson

Building Structure and Building Power by J. Heard, M. Porath, + S. Vashakmadze

Pernicious Effects by Antonio Pacheco

I was Skeptical of Unions. Then I Joined One. by German Lopez

The Case for a Trade Union for Architects by Alexander Walter

Welcome to the Grind by Vitruvius Grind (aka The Hustle Architect)

Dear Architectural Workers by Kate Wagner

Designing Democracy: Nordic Graphic Designers by Per Lundin

In Debt and In the Dark by Anjulie Rao

Press

 

BA Union New York Times by Noam Scheiber

BA Union Archinect by Niall Patrick Walsh

Curbed Interview w/ BA Union by Isabel Ling

Common \ Edge Interview w/ Andy Bernheimer by Martin C Pedersen

Disegno by India Block

New York Times by Noam Scheiber

Curbed by Isabel Ling

New York Review of Architecture by Daniel Roche

Architectural Record by Pansy Schulman

Architect’s Newspaper by Sydney Franklin

Azure by Sydney Shilling

Archinect by Niall Patrick Walsh

Dwell by Rachel Sanders

ARCHITECT by Anjulie Rao

CityLab / Bloomberg by Kriston Capps + Sarah Holder

Podcasts

 

AIA NY Panel w/ A. Daley, K. Forbes, A. Bernheimer, J. Dorning, V. Alvarez

(recording of in person event)

AIA SF Fresh Brew w/ A. Daley, T. Goss, J. Myers

Second Studio Pod w/ J. Siqueira + A. Daley

Practice Disrupted w/ A. Daley + J. Myers

Design:ED w/ A. Daley + D. Tellez

Ezra Klein Show w/ Jane McAlevey

Ezra Klein Show w/ Sarah Jaffe

New York Times: The Daily w/ Noam Scheiber

Vox: Today, Explained w/ host Noel King

Wall Street Journal: The Journal w/ host Heather Haddon

NPR Rough Translation w/ host Gregory Warner

Worst Year Ever w/ Eve Ettinger

The Dig w/ host Daniel Denvir

WorkLife: How to Change your Workplace w/ Adam Grant

Failed Architecture w/ K. Dunn + F. Cardoso

Books

 

Democracy is Power by Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle

Secrets of a Successful Organizer by Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner, and Jane Slaughter

Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe

Fear of Falling by Barbara Ehrenrich

Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly

Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns

A Collective Bargain by Jane McAlevey

No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey

Red State Revolt by Eric Blanc

Subterranean Fire by Sharon Smith

Work: The Last 1,000 Years by Andrea Komlosy

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Hammer and Hoe by Robin D.G. Kelley

Strike for America by Micah Uetricht

Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis

American Trade Unionism by William Z. Foster

The Problem with Work by Kathy Weeks

Movies

 

Harlan County USA

Norma Rae

Killing Floor

Salt of the Earth

Blue Collar

8 Hours Don't Make a Day

The Organizer

Pride

Sorry to Bother You

The Wobblies

Matewan

Crip Camp

Newsies

Attica

Overwork, Burnout, Stress

 

Harvard Business Review Article (about long hours)

Salon Article (about 40 hour work week)

Gallup Union Support Poll

CNBC Article (about long hours)

Wall Street Journal Article (about overtime)

World Economic Forum (about employees leaving)

National Bureau of Economic Research (union job study)

Bustle Article (about burnout)

Autonomy (about 4 day work week trials)

Other Professional Unions

 

(Non-Exhaustive, there are 6,000,000 professional union members)

BA Union (est. 2022) - IAMAW

SCA Union (est. 2023 - IAMAW

Apple CORE Union (est. 2022) - IAMAW

Alphabet Union by Google Employees (est. 2021) - CWA

Vodeo Video Game Developers (est. 2021) - CWA

HCL Google subcontractor (est. 2021) - USW

Guggenheim Union (est. 2021) - UAW

ACLU Lawyers (est. 2021) - IFTPE

Whitney Museum Union (est. 2020) - UAW

Kickstarter United (est. 2020) - OPEIU

Wirecutter Union (est. 2019) - News Guild

New Museum Union (est. 2019) - UAW

VOX Media Union (est. 2018) - WGA East

The New Yorker Union (est. 2018) - News Guild

New York Magazine Union (est. 2018) - News Guild

VICE Media Union (est. 2017) - WGA East

Gizmodo Media Group Union (est. 2015) - WGA East