S.M. “Mike” Miller, a Pioneering Scholar-Activist (1922–2021)
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.
Summer 2022
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Is This a Strike Wave?
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
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
Academia once seemed to provide an escape from capitalism. Two new novels question the very concept of refuge itself.
Academia After the Pandemic
A roundtable on how COVID-19 has changed American universities.
Belabored: Toward a Liberatory Unionism, with Eve Livingston
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.
A New Deal for Eds and Meds
Organizers now recognize that to remake higher education as a public good, they must fight and win at the national level.
Belabored: The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street, with Ruth Milkman and Nastaran Mohit
Though the occupation didn’t last long, it shaped many subsequent campaigns and movements, including in organized labor.
Belabored: Occupy’s Ten-Year Anniversary, with Stephen Lerner and Jonathan Westin
How did Occupy change the labor movement? And what lessons might it still hold for unions struggling to find their footing in an ever more crisis-prone world?
Belabored: Washington Retreats from a Just Transition, with Joe Uehlein
As hopes for ambitious climate policy fade, Joe Uehlein, Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability, talks about why we must decarbonize the economy while protecting workers.
The Feminist Struggle for Time to Care
The best family policies would lift household income by raising pay and social wages—and would value work wherever it takes place.
Belabored: Lost in Work, with Amelia Horgan
Amelia Horgan’s new book, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism, asks what work is, why it sucks, and what we can do to change it.
