Making Hope and History Rhyme: A New Worker Movement from the Shell of the Old
Image created by Aaron Lenchner. Both images are from Creative Commons open and free access. Top: Starbucks union march, Seattle,
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Author: Stephen Lerner
An Immodest Proposal: Remodeling the House of Labor
Unions and the labor movement in the United States have continued their historic decline in terms of membership and density, under a Democratic president and in a booming economy. Unions have emerged from a period of economic growth and prosperity not larger and stronger but weaker and smaller.
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Organizing in a Brave New World
Austerity, growing inequality, and the economic and political domination of billionaires, bankers, hedge funds, and giant corporations make the current moment ripe for birthing a movement that can radically transform the country and the world. This is a time of great peril, but also of extraordinary opportunity and—yes—reasons for hope. The last four decades have been characterized by unrelenting attacks on the working class, the weakening of unions and the financialization of capitalism.
Read moreON THE CONTRARY: A New Insurgency Can Only Arise Outside the Progressive and Labor Establishment
We live in a dangerous time when large corporations and the super-rich are restructuring the nation’s economy. There is a
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