Benjamin Y. Fong is Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College and Associate Director of the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University.

December 20, 2025

Analysis

The Big Ten

How to define a "logistics cluster"

Finding and defining “logistics clusters” across the United States

December 20, 2025

Analysis

Labor & Logistics

A new monthly newsletter on the logistics industry in the United States

The largest private-sector employers in the United States today are a mix of retail and parcel companies that have all built out sophisticated logistical operations. In the post-war era, the largest employers were all in manufacturing, and warehousing and distribution…

September 4, 2024

Analysis

Labor’s Gains?

What do large-unit elections tell us about the state of the American labor movement?

In 2023, a “banner year” for labor in many regards, only 115,551 workers voted in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) representation elections, out of roughly 160 million workers in the United States labor force. In FY 2018, that number was…