Labor - Dissent Magazine

The Politics of Protection

Sarah Jaffe ▪ November 22, 2021

In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope.

Belabored: Our Neglected Human Infrastructure, with Sadé Dozan

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ November 19, 2021

Sadé Dozan of Caring Across Generations discusses the Build Back Better bill, which would put some $150 billion into Medicaid-supported homecare services.

Hope for Labor at the End of History

Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman ▪ Fall 2021

Amid the bleak political landscape of Clinton’s America, a 1996 summit of union organizers and intellectuals proved a surprise success. It also showed the weakness of left ideas without a strong labor movement.

Belabored: Work Without the Workers, with Phil Jones

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ November 5, 2021

How do you take industrial action when your workplace is your computer? In his new book, Phil Jones considers the millions of “microworkers” around the world who process data for digital platforms.

S.M. “Mike” Miller, a Pioneering Scholar-Activist (1922–2021)

Peter Dreier ▪ November 4, 2021

A prolific writer and researcher for seven decades, Miller’s greatest talent was putting that knowledge to work on behalf of activist groups in the United States and around the world.

Is This a Strike Wave?

Nelson Lichtenstein ▪ October 25, 2021

We sorely need one, but that first requires the unionization of millions of new workers.

Belabored: Can the United Auto Workers Be Democratized? With Justin Mayhugh

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ October 22, 2021

For decades, the United Auto Workers has been controlled by a tight-knit group of insiders. Now members are voting in a historic referendum on how the union elects its central leadership.

Escape from Adjunct Hell

Jennifer Wilson ▪ Fall 2021

Academia once seemed to provide an escape from capitalism. Two new novels question the very concept of refuge itself.

Academia After the Pandemic

Maggie Doherty, Nils Gilman, Adam Harris, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Christopher Newfield and Timothy Shenk ▪ Fall 2021

A roundtable on how COVID-19 has changed American universities.

Belabored: Toward a Liberatory Unionism, with Eve Livingston

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ October 8, 2021

Eve Livingston’s new book, Make Bosses Pay, aims to get young people connected to unions and to push unions to engage more with the working class as it is today: diverse, precarious, and perhaps on the brink of rebellion.