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)
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