Belabored: The Great Resignation
Rebecca Kolins Givan and C.M. Lewis look back at the year in labor.
Rebecca Kolins Givan and C.M. Lewis look back at the year in labor.
Join us on Thursday, December 16 for a live episode of Belabored.
The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration that are still with us today.
In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope.
Sadé Dozan of Caring Across Generations discusses the Build Back Better bill, which would put some $150 billion into Medicaid-supported homecare services.
Amid the bleak political landscape of Clinton’s America, a 1996 summit of union organizers and intellectuals proved a surprise success. It also showed the weakness of left ideas without a strong labor movement.
How do you take industrial action when your workplace is your computer? In his new book, Phil Jones considers the millions of “microworkers” around the world who process data for digital platforms.
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.