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Belabored Podcast #177: More Hours for What We Will, with Will Stronge

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ June 7, 2019

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

Eleni Schirmer ▪ Spring 2019

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

Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 24, 2019

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

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 10, 2019

Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday’s strike.

Belabored Podcast #174: Stop & Strike

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 26, 2019

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

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 ▪ Spring 2019

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 ▪ Spring 2019

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 …

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?