In its over two decades of publication, articles in the journal have covered the full range of challenges that confront workers and working-class communities.  On the domestic side, these issues have included:

On the domestic side, these issues have included:

• the growth of low-wage service and precarious work
• labor and social movement organizing strategy
• rising household debt
• surveillance capitalism
• Black Lives Matter and Police Unions
• U.S. and global political trends
• carceral labor
• immigration policy
• organized labor and the #metoo movement pay inequity
• LGBTQ workplace discrimination
• labor’s relationship to the American empire
• labor’s role in mitigating the climate crisis

Internationally, contributors to the journal have examined:

• • tech worker organizing in China
  • organized labor in post-Apartheid South Africa
  • the Chinese belt and road initiative
  • the ebb and flow of the pink tide in Latin America
  • organizing among informal workers in the global south
  • efforts to establish an Asia floor wage
  • the rise of economic nationalism in Europe

Article highlights include:

• Lily Geismer, Napoleons in Pinstripes: The Rise of the Business Mogul as Politician (Fall 2018)
• Chris Lehmann, Marxism and Consumer Culture (Fall 2015)
• Adolph Reed, The Strange Career of the Voting Rights Act: Selma in Fact and Fiction (Spring 2015)
• Frances Fox Piven, The Changing Faces of Poverty and Inequality: How We Once Came to Fight a War on Poverty (Fall 2014)
• Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Neither Walls nor Open Borders: A New Approach to Immigration Reform (Winter 2011)
• Poo, Ai-jen, A Twenty-First Century Organizing Model: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign (Winter 2011)
• Walden Bello, Reforming Global Capitalism: The Illusion of Change (Fall 2009)
• Jacob Hacker, Health Care for America will Guarantee Coverage for all Americans (Fall 2007)
• Anita Chan, Organizing Wal-Mart in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for China’s Unions (Spring 2007)
• Marshall Berman, Dancing with America: Philip Roth, Writer on the Left (Fall/Winter 2001)
• Sakhela Buhlungu, The Paradox of Victory: South Africa’s Union Movement in Crisis (Spring/Summer 2001)

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