Class and the Challenge of COVID-19
In the weeks ahead, the class lines that divide today’s America might become most visible around who must still venture out to work and who can work from the safety of home.
Spring 2025
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Belabored Podcast #185: Riding for Deliveroo, with Callum Cant
An inside look at the gig economy. Plus: updates from the GM strike, a teachers’ strike looming in Chicago, and more.
Belabored Podcast #184: Organizing the Unorganizable, with Jason Moyer-Lee
We hear about a new union in the UK organizing everyone from foster care workers to Uber drivers. Plus: an interview with a striking General Motors worker.
Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC
Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities.
Belabored Podcast #175: Shut off the Apps, with International Striking Uber and Lyft Drivers
Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday’s strike.
Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai
Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.
Taking Back the Wheel
In the future heralded by Silicon Valley, cars will fly and labor will be disposable. But none of this is inevitable. It’s a political choice—that we can still reject.
Belabored Podcast #121: Trading Our Rights Away? With Arthur Stamoulis and John Cavanagh
Will Trump’s renegotiated trade deals be any better for workers—in the United States and abroad—than the old ones?
Bargaining with Silicon Valley
Gig economy bosses—including the CEOs of both Uber and Lyft—are using a narrative of technological inevitability to undermine labor law and the social safety net.
Belabored Podcast #119: The No-Rights-At-Work Attack, with Bill Londrigan
Bill Londrigan of the Kentucky AFL-CIO joins us to talk about the right-to-work bill that just passed in his state, and the fight to maintain union power under a hostile regime.
Belabored Podcast #102: A Left Turn on the Campaign Trail, with Eric Fink
An interview with Eric Fink, a democratic socialist candidate for State Senate in North Carolina, who is challenging one of the lawmakers behind the state’s HB2 “bathroom bill.”
Belabored Podcast #94: Disrupting Uber
New legislation in Seattle could pave the way for Uber drivers to unionize. We explore the legal and political road ahead with Rebecca Smith of the National Employment Law Project and Takele Gobena of the App-Based Drivers Association.
Belabored Podcast #73: Shedding Light on TPP Secrets, with Celeste Drake
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? It’s hard to know since the deal is being negotiated almost entirely in secret. Belabored talks with Celeste Drake, Trade & Globalization Policy Specialist at the AFL-CIO, about the ramifications of the trade deal for workers around the globe.
