Belabored Podcast #183: Troublemaking in Asia
A report back from Labor Notes’s first ever conference in Asia.
Winter 2024
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Belabored Podcast #182: (Slowly) Seizing the Means of Production
How would the workplace be different if the workers owned it?
Belabored Podcast #181: Hong Kong Pushed to the Edge
Following Hong Kong’s first general strike in decades, three activists talk about labor’s role in the protests.
Belabored Podcast #180: General Strike in Puerto Rico Gets the Goods, with Mercedes Martinez
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
South Korean journalist Lee Jae-yeon discusses her investigation of working conditions in Samsung factories in nine cities in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Immigrants Didn’t Kill Your Union
Immigration didn’t cause the economic restructuring that began in the 1970s, or the inequality and labor degradation that came with it.
Belabored Podcast #178: A Nurse’s Prescription for Fixing Healthcare
Unionized nurses are campaigning for sweeping changes to the healthcare system, including Medicare for All and safe staffing levels in hospitals.
Belabored Podcast #177: More Hours for What We Will, with Will Stronge
What if the best thing we could do—for ourselves, the planet, and even our workplaces—was to work less?
After Act 10: How Milwaukee Teachers Fought Back
A Wisconsin law stripped their union of its rights. So the teachers got to work.
Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC
Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities.
Belabored Podcast #175: Shut off the Apps, with International Striking Uber and Lyft Drivers
Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday’s strike.
Belabored Podcast #174: Stop & Strike
Stop & Shop workers staged the biggest private-sector strike in years. We talk to two of the strikers about what they won.
Belabored Podcast #173: Wages for Warcraft, with Jamie Woodcock
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
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 
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 …
