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How Workers Really Get Canceled on the Job - The American Prospect

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Pre-hiring personality screening and ongoing employer monitoring explicitly weed out workers likely to agitate for a union.

Credit: Seth Perlman/AP Photo In her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed , Barbara Ehrenreich wrote about being given a personality test when interviewing for a housecleaning job, which asked such questions as whether “management and employees will always be in conflict because they have totally different sets of goals.” She also described alarming the tester for Walmart, by asserting some measure of independence on a couple of questions. Ehrenreich’s working-class job seeker was among the real victims of cancel culture in the U.S., not A-list writers and actors. For decades, millions of workers have b

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