
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.
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.
We sorely need one, but that first requires the unionization of millions of new workers.
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.
Academia once seemed to provide an escape from capitalism. Two new novels question the very concept of refuge itself.
A roundtable on how COVID-19 has changed American universities.
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.
Organizers now recognize that to remake higher education as a public good, they must fight and win at the national level.
Though the occupation didn’t last long, it shaped many subsequent campaigns and movements, including in organized labor.
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?
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 best family policies would lift household income by raising pay and social wages—and would value work wherever it takes place.
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.