The Slave and the Machine: Coerced Labor and the Origins of Modern Technology (Verso, under contract)
“The Problem with AI is About Power, Not Technology,” Jacobin, November 5, 2024
“Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge,” New Labor Forum, August 2024
with R. H. Lossin, “AI Isn’t a Radical Technology,” The Nation, February 27, 2024
“The Labor Movement Made Me a Labor Historian,” LaborOnline, November 8, 2023
“How Bill Clinton Became a Neoliberal,”Jacobin, August 31, 2023
“AI Won’t Kill Our Jobs—But It Will Make Them Worse,” Washington Post, June 19, 2023
“How Universal Income Became the Pessimist’s Utopia,” Jacobin, May 17, 2023
“How Do You Know What To Shoot?” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 28, 2022
“The Paradox of Automation: QWERTY and the Neuter Keyboard,” Labor 18:4, December 2021
Winner of Best Article Prize for most outstanding article in Labor, years 2020/2021.
“How the Automation Revolution Made America Work Harder,” Zócalo Public Square, September 2, 2021
“HAL, Mother, and Father,” Paris Review Daily, January 9, 2015 (Best-Of 2015)
Media Appearances
“How AGI Made the Future Unthinkable,” New York Magazine, April 10, 2025.
“Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation,” Peoples and Things, Episode 84, November 4, 2024
“What a Zoom cashier 8,000 miles away can tell us about the future of work,”Vox, May 9, 2024
“Striking Workers Made Gains in 2023,”CNBC MakeIt, December 19, 2023
“AI Could ‘Turn Good Jobs into Bad Jobs’—3 Labor Historians on What the Future of Work Might Hold,”CNBC MakeIt, August 28, 2023
“How TV Writing Became a Dead-End Job,”New York Times, July 20, 2023
“What Does the Writers’ Strike Tell Us About the Future of A.I. and Jobs?” New York Times Audio, June 1, 2023
“Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?”New York Times, April 29, 2023
“The Robot in the Next Cubicle,”Best New Ideas in Money, July 27, 2022.
Interview with Tom Discenna on New Books Network, July 21, 2022.
“Labor’s End: Automation’s Failed Promise of Freedom,”Tales From the Reuther Library, July 14, 2022.
"Existe la idea de que todo el tiempo se produce algún tipo de progreso tecnológico. Pero eso es una fantasía," interview with Irene Hernández Velasco, BBC Mundo, June 24, 2022.
“Jason Resnikoff on the Automation Discourse and the Meaning of Work,”Who Makes Cents? A History of Capitalism Podcast, with Jessica Levy, March 7, 2022.
Interview with Rosemary Feurer,LaborOnline, December 30, 2021.
The Working Class in American History Series, University of Illinois Press
