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.


No private company is logistically capable of delivering the mail. So what does privatization of the US Postal Service mean?


Home Depot has been on a building and acquisitions spree, rapidly taking over a half-dozen logistics companies. Is it also creating an opportunity for organized labor?

February 25, 2026

Analysis

The increasingly complex logistics of Amazon’s same-day delivery expansion—and the labor costs that make it possible.

January 22, 2026

Analysis

Overexpectations in e-commerce?

A story told through the clash of the world's two largest corporations by revenue

Is brick-and-mortar retail bound to lose ground to the new portals of infinite choice and doorstep delivery? The picture is more complex than it might seem.

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

Introducing a new newsletter on the largest private-sector employers in the United States.

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…