Volume 30 Issue 3 (Fall 2021)

Table of Contents

From the Editorial Team

Social Democracy or Fortress Democracy? A Twenty-First  Century Immigration Plan
By Deepak Bhargava

Democratizing the Knowledge Economy: Will Labor Accept  the Challenge?
By J. Phillip Thompson and Christine Curella

Amazon Workers vs. Bare-Knuckle Union-Busting: Lessons from Bessemer

It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing at Amazon after Bessemer
By Sarah Jaffe

Crushing Unions, by Any Means Necessary: How Amazon’s Blistering Anti-Union Campaign Won in Bessemer, Alabama
By John Logan

How a Biden Labor Board Could Advance Workers’ Rights
By Ellen Dichner

The Progressive Disjuncture on Land Use and Housing: Learning from the Leftmost City
By Miriam Greenberg

Agrarian Crisis and the Longest Farmers’ Protest in Indian History
By Navsharan Singh

The Who and Why of QAnon’s Rapid Rise
By Matthew W. Hughey

Why Massive Forgiveness Won’t Solve the Student-Debt Crisis
By Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Working-Class Voices

Always Essential: Grocery Store Work in a Pandemic
By Kressent Pottenger

Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground

Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
By Sean Sweeney

Books and the Arts

Living on the Job
Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
By Jamie K. McCallum
Reviewed by Laura Adler

Porno Dialectics at Work
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
By Heather Berg
Reviewed by Whitney Strub

International Adjustment: A Policy Choice?
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
By Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis
Reviewed by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod

Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt

Poetry

Lost in Space
By Leah Mueller