The Mind of Paul Booth, 1943–2018
First in SDS, then in the labor movement, Paul Booth embodied that remarkable, and rare, combination of ideals and strategy. A left that hopes to win has much to learn from his example.
Winter 2024
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Belabored Podcast #142: Smartphone Sweatshops in Asia, with Joe DiGangi
Do you know where your smartphone was made? A new in-depth report reveals dangerous conditions in Samsung factories in Vietnam.
Belabored Podcast #141: Union for the Holidays
Holiday travel can be stressful, and doubly so for the workers who make that travel possible. We hear about the flight attendants and baggage handlers organizing this holiday season.
Zombie Neoliberalism
How “There Is No Alternative” gave us Donald Trump.
Booked: The Ideology of Cheap Stuff
What do Black Friday, chicken nuggets, and Christopher Columbus tell us about the history of capitalism? We ask Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, authors of the new book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
Belabored Podcast #140: Resisting the Taxpocalypse
Protests have been going on around the country over the Republican tax bill. We’re joined by some of the organizers.
A Day Out and a Union: Lebanon’s Domestic Workers Organize
In a country of 6 million, there are now 250,000 migrant domestic workers laboring under the oppressive kafala system. Can a new union help transform conditions not just in Lebanon, but across the Middle East?
Belabored Podcast #139: Fighting Harassment on the Farm
We talk with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about organizing to fight sexual harassment of farm workers.
Belabored Podcast #138: Wobblies of the World, Then and Now, with Peter Cole
The history of the IWW—and its concept of “One Big Union”—holds lessons for the labor movement today.
Belabored Podcast #137: Sex, Power, and Labor Rights, with Ariane Hegewisch
Sexual harassment is a labor issue.
Emmanuel Macron’s Assault on French Democracy
As Emmanuel Macron bypasses French democracy to enact a sweeping pro-business agenda, a new resistance is taking shape.
Can Labor Still Use the Wagner Act?
As American workers face down the national right-to-work regime threatened by Janus v. AFSCME, the Wagner Act’s vision of workplace democracy bears revisiting.
Belabored Podcast #136: Countdown to Janus, with Andy Stettner
Janus v. AFSCME is the Supreme Court case labor has been dreading. Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation joins us to talk what it means for workers and unions.
[EVENT | October 5–6] The Crisis of Democracy
Join the Albert Shanker Institute, Dissent, and many more for a two-day conference on the Crisis of Democracy, October 5–6 in Washington, D.C.
Belabored Podcast #135: How Single-Payer Went from Margin to Mainstream, with Michael Lighty
Medicare for All has moved from radical to mainstream in a span of just months. Michael Lighty of National Nurses United joins us to talk about the role of healthcare workers in the fight for single-payer.
