Volume 30, Issue 1 (Winter 2021)
Table of Contents
From the Editorial Team
Under the Radar
By Sarah Jaffe
Unreported and under-reported news and views that matter.
On the Contrary
Is Care Work Already the Future?
By Andrew Ross
Labor’s Capital: Why and How to Put Capital at the Service of Labor
By Robert C. Hockett
Left Coalition-Building in the Post-Industrial Heartland: A View from Reading and Berks County
By Sharryn Kasmir
Quantitative Data Tools for Labor Organizing in the Service Sector
By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, and Patrick Youngblood
Save the News: Campaigning to Preserve Jobs and Democratize Journalism: A conversation with Jon Schleuss
By Kitty Weiss Krupat
Capital Strategies for the Common Good: A Tool for Labor’s Revival
By Patrick Dixon
The Hormel Strike at 35: A Retrospective for Our Times
By Peter Rachleff
Fighting Worker Misclassification in the Era of Covid-19
By Richard Blum
Working-Class Voices
Backstage with a Makeup Artist
By Kressent Pottenger
Roots of Rebellion: A Guide to Insurgencies from Coast to Coast
From Universal Rent Control to Cancel Rent: Tenant Organizing in New York State
By Celia Weaver
Organized Money: What Is Corporate America Thinking?
Deregulating the Planet
By Max Fraser
Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground
Five Years on, the Paris Climate Agreement Needs an Overhaul
By Sean Sweeney
Books and the Arts
A Chinese Dystopia: Designed in California
Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers
By Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai
Reviewed by Nelson Lichtenstein
Geographies of Solidarity
The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s
By Michael Goldfield
Reviewed by Kristoffer Smemo
Teacher Organizing for the Common Good
A Collective Pursuit: Teachers’ Unions and Education Reform
By Lesley Lavery
Reviewed by Paul Prescod
Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt
Poetry
For the City that Nearly Broke Me
I’m Learning Nothing This Night
By Reginald Dwayne Betts
Letters to the Editor