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Belabored Podcast #173: Wages for Warcraft, with Jamie Woodcock

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 16, 2019

The labor that makes the multi-billion-dollar video-game industry possible, educators fighting back in New York and Chicago, the IRS auditing poor people, and much more.

The Road to Renewal

Michelle Chen, Sarah Jaffe and Mark Levinson ▪ What Men Want

Even in its weakened state, the labor movement remains the largest organizational counterweight to capital and the power of the wealthy.

Introducing our Spring 2019 special section, Labor’s Comeback.

How Eugene Debs Became a Socialist

Michael Kazin ▪ What Men Want

Before Eugene Debs became the most popular socialist in American history, he was an innovative and courageous labor leader. As leader of the American Railway Union (ARU), founded in 1893, he attempted to gather all the crafts in what was …

Immigrants Didn’t Kill Your Union

Ruth Milkman ▪ What Men Want

The white working class has every reason to be alienated and enraged by rising inequality and the disappearance of good jobs, but their anger has been profoundly misdirected.

After Act 10: How Milwaukee Teachers Fought Back

Eleni Schirmer ▪ What Men Want

A Wisconsin law stripped their union of its rights. So the teachers got to work.

Belabored Podcast #172: Putting Climate Justice to Work, with Rusty Hicks

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 30, 2019

Capitol Hill is abuzz with the Green New Deal. But is the rest of the economy, and its workers, ready for the kind of dramatic transformation that the climate change movement is calling for?