Prison Uprisings, From Attica to Today
Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, discusses the uprising and the current wave of prison strikes.
Winter 2024
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Belabored Podcast #113: Chicago Teachers Strike Back, with Sarah Chambers
The Chicago Teachers Union is on the verge of another major strike—one that could be even longer and nastier than the union’s landmark 2012 fight. Public school teacher and CTU activist Sarah Chambers lays out the stakes.
Belabored Podcast #112: Striking India, with Vamsi Vakulabharanam and Gautam Mody
Last week’s general strike in India might have been the largest strike in history.
Belabored Podcast #111: Workers’ Rights for Graduate Employees, with Lindsey Dayton
Lindsey Dayton from the Graduate Workers of Columbia joins us to talk about the recent NLRB ruling that graduate students who work for private universities are employees and have the right to unionize.
Belabored Podcast #110: Americans in Revolt, with Sarah Jaffe
Belabored co-host Sarah Jaffe talks about her new book, Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.
The French Left Divided
This summer, France’s Socialist government quashed the country’s largest wave of strikes of protests in a generation to impose a drastic overhaul of French labor law, revealing deeper fault lines in the process.
Belabored Podcast #109: Forum for Change, with Nathalie Guay
A sneak preview of the labor events happening at the World Social Forum next week in Montreal.
Belabored Podcast #108: Philly Airport Workers Rising Up, with Gabe Morgan
Airport workers at the Philadelphia International Airport just voted to strike next week during the Democratic National Convention. SEIU 32BJ Vice President Gabe Morgan joins us to explain why.
Unionizing the Digital Newsroom
In unionizing, digital media workers have laid claim to a powerful lineage of newsroom organizing. But is there more they could learn from the militant newshounds of the past?
Belabored Podcast #106: Nurses on the Frontline, with Jean Ross
Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United, joins us to talk about the nursing strike in Minnesota. Plus: audio from NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro’s People’s Summit speech on why we need to fight neoliberalism now.
Belabored Podcast #105: A French Uprising, with Jonah Birch
Streets and workplaces in France have been roiling with protests against a reform that would threaten the country’s 35-hour work week. Jacobin editor Jonah Birch joins us to talk about what it means for labor.
Belabored Podcast #104: Fred Ross’s Incendiary Organizing, with Gabriel Thompson
A conversation with Gabriel Thompson about America’s Social Arsonist, his new biography of legendary organizer Fred Ross.
Bargaining for the Common Good
From Los Angeles to Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., workers are finding new approaches to bargaining for a greater good, aligning their demands with those of their community allies.
Belabored Podcast #103: Get Ready for Struggle, with John Nichols
A live conversation with John Nichols, co-author of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
Right to Work (For Less): By the Numbers
Though it’s still hard to judge the full economic impact of the laws, it’s clear that workers in “right-to-work” states face a cascade of disadvantages.
