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The Next Amazon Union Drive
Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
The workers who sew clothes for global apparel giants are facing widespread hunger and destitution during the pandemic—even as many of these corporations continue to turn a profit.
Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss Amazon and the state of the Black working class.
It’s in moments when even the best-case scenario on the table doesn’t get us far enough that socialist ideas are most important.
To envision a global Green New Deal requires a serious effort to grasp the deep inequities of the international economic order.
For decades, economists have promoted low-wage textile industry as the best way for poor countries to build a manufacturing base. In East Africa, the promised trickle-down effects of foreign investment have not materialized.
A massive overhaul and expansion of the wildland workforce is the best hope we have to confront the firestorm that threatens to engulf the West Coast.
In the face of COVID-19, the political response has been at best temporary relief and at worst indifference. What we need going forward is not just better public health measures, but a response to the economic insecurities and policy failures that it laid bare.
Labor lawyer Brandon Magner discusses what the PRO Act’s ABC test means for freelancers.
Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom, talks about the prospects for a truly feminist labor movement.
An interview with Gabriel Winant on deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.