Volume 31 Issue 3 (Fall 2022)
Table of Contents
From the Editorial Team
New Labor Forum Chronicles a Quarter Century in Labor
Who Pays for Inflation?
By Samir Sonti
Office Space: The Political Economy of Remote Work
By Joel Suarez
New Organizing Models: Grassroots to Global
Sectoral Bargaining: Labor’s Pathway to Power?
By Peter Olney and Rand Wilson
High-Octane Organizing at Starbucks
By John Logan
Teamsters Confront Amazon: An Early Assessment
By Ellen Reese and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
Can the ILO Assist the U.S. Battle for Unionization?
By Stanley Gacek
The Chicago Teachers’ Strike Ten Years On: Organizing for the Common Good, Then and Now
By Eric Blanc
Between Military Violence, Union Busting and Deteriorating Working Conditions, Myanmar’s Factory Workers Are Being Squeezed from All Sides
By Kiana Duncan
Working-Class Voices
Barista Solidarity from Buffalo to Oklahoma City
By Kressent Pottenger
Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground
How Can Cities Reach Their Climate Goals?
By Sean Sweeney
Organized Money: What Is Corporate America Thinking?
Battling the Board
By Max Fraser
Books and the Arts
“The Soul of This Place”: Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit
Reviewed by Tyler Grand Pre
Density Is Not Enough: Rebuilding Union Power
Arise: Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence
By Jane Holgate
Reviewed by Emma Teitelman
Is Cross-Class Solidarity Possible in the Brave New World?
Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society
By Jack Metzgar
Reviewed by Catherine Liu
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 Bob Hicok
Calling Him Back from Layoff
After working sixty hours again for what reason