Issues

Volume 31 Issue 2 (Spring 2022)

Table of Contents

From the Editorial Team

On the Contrary

Why Anyone Concerned about Climate Change Should Support Nuclear Power
By Leonard Rodberg

Organizing Today: Obstacles and Opportunities

Biden’s Task Force on Worker Organizing Shows the Limits of Executive Action
By Andrew Strom

Grocery Unions under the Gun in New York City and the Nation 
By Ruth Milkman

Winning Against the Odds: The 32BJ SEIU Organizing Model 
By Rob Hill and Stuart Eimer

69,823 Public Organizing Opportunities: Pennsylvania as a Case in Point 
By Christopher Bangst

Domestic Worker Organizing in Neo-Authoritarian Brazil 
By Jana Silverman and Louisa Acciari

New Paradigm for a Resilient Care Economy 
By Ai-jen Poo

What’s Really behind China’s “Common Prosperity” Program? 
By Yueran Zhang

The 2020 Census: Trump, the Pandemic, and Threats to Democracy
By Margo Anderson and Andrew A. Beveridge

Worker to Worker, Union to Union: Building U.S.-China Solidarity 
By Kent Wong

Working-Class Voices

No More “Trolly Dollies”: Flight Attendants Are Safety Professionals
By Kressent Pottenger

Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground

Leaping Backwards: Why is Energy Poverty Rising in Africa?
By Sean Sweeney

Organized Money: What Is Corporate America Thinking?

Biden and BlackRock
By Max Fraser

Books and the Arts

Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: The Continued Relevance of a Landmark Book
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By Walter Rodney
Reviewed by Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Life After Capitalism: Participatory Socialism 
Time For Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
By Thomas Piketty
Reviewed by Eric Blanc

Our Bookshelf: Recent Publications by Members of New Labor Forum’s Editorial Board and Staff

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

Poetry
By Edward Hirsch

That’s the Job

Windber Field 

Night Class in Daisytown

March of the People: A Story of 21st Century Censorship in the Arts