Winter 2019
Volume 28 Issue 1 (Winter 2019)
Table of Contents
From the Editorial Team
Under the Radar
By Sarah Jaffe
Unreported and under-reported news and views that matter.
Surveillance Capitalism and the Challenge of Collective Action
By Shoshana Zuboff
A theory.
Renewing Working-Class Internationalism
By Aziz Rana
Overcoming the artificial separation between domestic and foreign affairs.
What Did the Midterms Tell Us about the Future of the Progressive-Left?
By Ted Fertik
An anatomy of the left’s electoral coalition.
Work and Its Discontents on the Platform:
Platform Capitalism: What’s at Stake for Workers?
By Steven Vallas
Will the digital revolution give rise to a workers’ revolution?
Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Platform Workers Take on Tech Giants in the Workplace and the World
By Julianne Tveten
Political organizing combines with workplace organizing in Silicon Valley.
#MeToo Inside the Labor Movement
By Ana Avendaño
Will organized labor overcome its traditional reluctance to take a stand against sexual harassment?
The French Enigma: Macron, Centrist Reformism, and the Labor Movement
By George Ross
Why Macron is unpopular but labor is losing.
#CountMeIn: The NYC Building Trades Campaign Puts It All on the Line
By David Mirtz
The building trades, long an exclusive club, reach out to non-union workers in fight against open shop.
Thwarting Janus: New Legislation Makes Adjunct Organizing Easier in New York State
By Luke Elliot-Negri and Marc Kagan
Is there a silver lining in the Janus cloud hanging over in New York?
Working-Class Voices
Sex Work Is Work
By Riley Renegade with Kressent Pottenger
Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground
When Science Upends Wishful Thinking: Can Renewables Alone Ensure 1.5 Degrees?
By Sean Sweeney
Roots of Rebellion: A Guide to Insurgencies from Coast to Coast
“This beautiful place we feel we saved”
By Mariya Strauss
Organized Money: What Is Corporate America Thinking?
An Impasse for the Donor Class
By Max Fraser
Books and the Arts
Nothing to Expect but a Hiding
Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
By Jeffrey Pfeffer
Reviewed by Jeremy Milloy
Repetition or Renewal?
On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War
By Kim Moody
Reviewed by Gabriel Winant
Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt