Modern Art/Ancient Wages
Caption: Vintage MoMA — Museum of Modern Art workers demonstrate in 2016. A half century ago, in 1971, staffers at
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
Decolonizing the Cultural Workplace: A New Organizing Front
See below this article for an accompanying article, Modern Art/Ancient Wages, by Kitty Krupat. Decolonizing is hard work. Nor is
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Art is Work: A Dancer’s Reflection
In September of 2019, I was in an open-air market in Berlin having a small crisis about the state of
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It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing at Amazon after Bessemer
The Amazon workers union election in Bessemer, Alabama was the most-covered union drive in many years. The New York Times
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Democratizing the Knowledge Economy: Will Labor Accept the Challenge?
We are in the midst of cascading political, economic, health, and environmental crises. Perhaps most evident is the Republican Party’s
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Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
Photo credit: aqua.mech, Creative Commons In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be
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Social Democracy or Fortress Democracy? A Twenty-First Century Immigration Plan
In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois observed that “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of
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Why Anyone Concerned about Climate Change Should Support Nuclear Power
By Leonard Rodberg Though many environmentalists and climate change advocates reject nuclear power, without this reliable source of clean power,
Read moreHealthcare Reform in a Post-Pandemic World
The industrialized world’s most unequal and inefficient healthcare system underwent a stress test this past pandemic year and failed miserably.
Read moreBeyond Coal: Why South Africa Should Reform and Rebuild Its Public Utility
Despite 2020’s record fall in carbon dioxide emissions—largely due to extensive and repeated “lockdowns” of cities, plus dramatic decreases in
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