There Is No Essential Work Without Child Care
Home-based day-care providers struggle to stay afloat while keeping other essential workers going.
Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Pandemic Politics, with Marshall Steinbaum and Sarah Jones
Two special guests, Sarah Jones and Marshall Steinbaum, return to the show to help Matt and Sam make sense of the politics of the pandemic.
Academia’s Theater of the Absurd
Adjunct faculty at Valencia College are campaigning for a union to advocate for fair pay, more job stability, and a greater say in how the college is run.
Work in the Time of Coronavirus 
Since March, we have been collecting short stories about what workers are facing during the crisis, and how they have been fighting back. You can read eight of them here.
Introduction: Already Sick
A series of short essays on the coronavirus pandemic.
Now More Than Ever
The virus didn’t break the United States. It found a broken country, and then dug its boot into cracked glass.
Who Gets Protected?
Across the country, state governments are passing legislation that grants companies immunity from any liability for their failure to protect workers during the pandemic.
“I Hope Our Daughters Will Not Be Punished”
From a solitary cell in Texas, Kwaneta Yatrice Harris writes letters documenting the torturous conditions, despite the risk of retribution.
Economics for Black Lives
Darrick Hamilton and Jesse A. Myerson discuss the pandemic, the uprisings, and the future through the lens of stratification economics.
Hot & Bothered: A Decade to Win
Kate and Daniel reflect on the lessons of the last few months and the prospects for ecosocialism in this decade.
Teamsters Demand Stronger Protections as States Reopen
As commercial activity ramps up, the union is demanding stronger safety protections at food processing plants.
“Injury to All” at Rutgers University
A coalition of unions representing 20,000 workers is organizing to reject the university’s austerity response to the pandemic.
Could COVID-19 Change Parenthood?
The pandemic is hammering home the unsustainability of American working family life.
Hot & Bothered: An Abolitionist Green New Deal, with Jasson Perez
What does an abolitionist, ecosocialist program look like in practice? Researcher and organizer Jasson Perez explains why working toward police and prison abolition is key to building social movements and, ultimately, expanding the horizon of a vibrant working-class life.
The Union Drive at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Amplifying our concerns about going back to work,” says museum educator Sarah Shaw, “is also a way of amplifying the concerns of other frontline workers.”
