Jerome Warren is an Alabama native and a PhD candidate at the University of Cologne. He is also affiliated with a working group on platform cooperatives at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a member of the International Karl Polanyi Society, and an editor at Exploring Economics.
Everyone knows it’s extremely difficult to organize a union in the US. Two often-overlooked reasons why: media consolidation and a dearth of public spaces where workers can come together, socialize, and organize.