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Mike Klain is a student at Harvard Law School and a member of the Labor and Employment Lab.

Evidence of a New Antitrust Strategy Emerging: The FTC Sues to Halt a Book Publishing Merger

Jan 7, 2022 Mike Klain

This July, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order that contained a multi-pronged approach to promoting corporate competition. Notably, the order included several elements targeting the impacts of consolidation on workers, such as a directive to the FTC that antitrust enforcement focus in particular on labor markets, a directive for the FTC to take steps […]

Wages and Prices Are Rising – Is the Phillips Curve Back?

Dec 17, 2021 Mike Klain

In a recent poll, two-thirds of respondents agreed with the statement “inflation is a very big concern for me.” These concerns are not without merit: the Consumer Price Index, which tracks the weighted-average prices of consumer goods and services, showed a 6.2% annual increase in October, the largest rate of increase in thirty years. The […]

Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry – It’s Just a Side Dish

Nov 29, 2021 Mike Klain

American University Communications Professor Patricia Aufderheide recently warned in the New York Times about the potential harms that might emerge from Amazon’s efforts to expand its presence in the film industry. Aufderheide’s column focused most intently on the threat posed by Amazon’s vertical integration in the industry, which ranges from upstream back-end internet services integral […]

How the U.S. Women’s National Team and the U.S. Soccer Federation Can Reach an Agreement

Nov 17, 2021 Mike Klain

In July 2015, 26.7 million Americans tuned in to watch the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team win the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final – at the time the most watched soccer game in American history. The U.S. Soccer Federation, the body that governs the U.S. Men’s and Women’s national soccer programs, awarded the team a […]

OnLabor

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OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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Evidence of a New Antitrust Strategy Emerging: The FTC Sues to Halt a Book Publishing Merger

Wages and Prices Are Rising – Is the Phillips Curve Back?

Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry – It’s Just a Side Dish

How the U.S. Women’s National Team and the U.S. Soccer Federation Can Reach an Agreement