Tag: labor

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Kim Kelly

November 27, 2019

Transit workers are ideally positioned to push down on the levers of power

Making Waves

Kim Kelly

November 01, 2019

Vulnerable workers from Boston to Wisconsin push back against impossible conditions

Striking a Blow

Kim Kelly

September 18, 2019

At GM, a wave of labor actions spills over into the manufacturing sector.

The Business of Cruelty

Brendan O’Connor

August 13, 2019

On the heels of a surge in white nationalist violence came the largest workplace immigration raid in a decade.

Labor of Love

Anne Elizabeth Moore

July 24, 2019

A few years back, women started foisting babies on to me and then wandering away to do something else—take a nap, cook dinner, watch TV. It had been at least two decades since my last babysitting gig—years during which, by most accounts, I had become something of a “bad ...

Cookshops of the Future

Yohann Koshy

May 30, 2019

It's time for the left to start thinking in the future tense. But is Fully Automated Luxury Communism the answer?

Taking Back Power

Kim Kelly

May 01, 2019

On May Day, looking back at a year in newly energized labor

Between a Strike and a Hard Place

Lia Russell

April 23, 2019

Facing the prospect of a state takeover, Sacramento teachers have been forced to make a series of difficult compromises.

Back to Work

Richard A. Greenwald

March 18, 2019

Let’s be clear, this isn’t really a book about “workers” . . .

Breaking the Coulter Curse

Joseph A. McCartin

January 29, 2019

Ann Coulter hates unions. You might say it’s in her genes.

The Church of Labor

Amber A’Lee Frost

December 03, 2018

Contemplating coal's past and the importance of a unionized energy sector at the Durham Miners' Gala.

Worked Over

Catherine Tumber

November 27, 2018

In The Once and Future Worker, Oren Cass’s labor sympathies only extend so far.