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[EVENT | October 17] Fall Issue Launch: Why We Need a Working-Class Media

Editors ▪ October 7, 2019

Join us on Thursday, October 17 at 7 p.m. at Verso Books in Brooklyn for the launch of our Fall 2019 issue.

Belabored Podcast #185: Riding for Deliveroo, with Callum Cant

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ October 5, 2019

An inside look at the gig economy. Plus: updates from the GM strike, a teachers’ strike looming in Chicago, and more.

Belabored Podcast #184: Organizing the Unorganizable, with Jason Moyer-Lee

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ September 20, 2019

We hear about a new union in the UK organizing everyone from foster care workers to Uber drivers. Plus: an interview with a striking General Motors worker.

Know Your Enemy #8: Koch’d Out

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 10, 2019

How did ultra-wealthy families like the Kochs, Scaifes, Olins, and Bradleys use their fortunes to reshape American politics?

Belabored Podcast #183: Troublemaking in Asia

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ September 6, 2019

A report back from Labor Notes’s first ever conference in Asia.

Belabored Podcast #182: (Slowly) Seizing the Means of Production

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ August 23, 2019

How would the workplace be different if the workers owned it?

Know Your Enemy: A New Podcast about the Right

Editors ▪ August 15, 2019

A leftist’s guide to the conservative movement, one episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.

Belabored Podcast #181: Hong Kong Pushed to the Edge

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ August 9, 2019

Following Hong Kong’s first general strike in decades, three activists talk about labor’s role in the protests.

Five Years after Ferguson

Editors ▪ August 9, 2019

Reflections on the origins and legacy of Black Lives Matter.

Belabored Podcast #180: General Strike in Puerto Rico Gets the Goods, with Mercedes Martinez

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ July 26, 2019

The President of the Puerto Rico Teachers Federation talks about this week’s protests and the ongoing fight against corruption.

Belabored Podcast #179: Samsung’s Labor Abuses

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ July 12, 2019

South Korean journalist Lee Jae-yeon discusses her investigation of working conditions in Samsung factories in nine cities in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.