A New Class Consciousness
For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
Winter 2024
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The Early End of Unemployment Insurance Is Class War
If the Biden administration were serious about helping workers to build power, it would push back against the Republican governors who are ending pandemic unemployment programs early.
Who Closes Hospitals?
A series of recent hospital closures points to the limits of the U.S. multi-payer healthcare system. Private provision cannot guarantee public access so long as insurance companies fuel rising costs.
The Black Comedy of Arthur Laffer
The idea behind the Laffer curve is a great satire of the hardworking self-image of the American managerial class.
Fully Automated Luxury Socialism: The Case for a New Public Sector
With ever more job-killing robots on the horizon, it’s time to demand a new public sphere: one that guarantees not just jobs but leisure too.
What Happened to Workers’ Ed?
As organized labor searches for a viable strategy to endure and grow, its limited footholds in American higher education are coming loose.
Reorganizing Labor
Only a mass movement by union members and sympathetic workers will transform organized labor into the bold agent of change it once was.
Why the Village Voice Strike is “Part of a Much Greater Fight”
On Tuesday, members of UAW Local 2110—which represents twenty-seven staff writers, editorial assistants, listings editors, and sales representatives at the Village Voice—voted to authorize a strike at the nation’s historic alternative-weekly newspaper after their three-year contract expired Monday.
ACLU Employees Protest for Job Protections
At the American Civil Liberties Union’s national headquarters in New York City, four months of negotiations have failed to bring unionized office staff to an agreement with management over the terms of their employment. Last Wednesday these employees held their …
Is Philadelphia the Next Chicago?
Activists in Philadelphia have responded to an austere “doomsday budget” with civil disobedience, hunger strikes, and community outreach. The crisis has revealed the potential for a city-wide insurgency.
Partial Readings: Whistleblowers and Job Security
In a recent essay on Seth Rosenfeld’s history of the FBI in the New York Review of Books, Adam Hochschild included a portentous anecdote: [I]n order to eavesdrop on a meeting in [Communist activist] Jessica Mitford’s house, two bumbling FBI …
The Franchise Fight: Workers Look to Hold Fast-Food Corporations Accountable
Organized fast-food workers recently celebrated a tentative victory in New York. Deliverymen at four Manhattan Domino’s locations were granted leave to amend a complaint in an ongoing class-action lawsuit—a mundane but necessary step in what labor organizing has become in …
