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Healthcare Reform in a Post-Pandemic World

June 2021June 2021 Administrator health care, Labor, neoliberalism, trade unions, working class

By Mark Dudzic The industrialized world’s most unequal and inefficient healthcare system underwent a stress test this past pandemic year

Beyond Coal: Why South Africa Should Reform and Rebuild Its Public Utility

May 2021 Administrator climate change, deindustrialization, green economy, industrialization, Labor, neoliberalism

By Dominic Brown Despite 2020’s record fall in carbon dioxide emissions—largely due to extensive and repeated “lockdowns” of cities, plus

Ireland’s Energy System: The Historical Case for Hope in Climate Action

May 2021 Administrator austerity, climate change, environmental movement, green economy, neoliberalism, politics, privatization

By Sinéad Mercier For thirty years, governments have been promising climate action. They seem incapable of undertaking the necessary major

Mexico’s Wall of Resistance: Why AMLO’s Fight for Energy Sovereignty Needs Our Support

May 2021May 2021 Sean Sweeney environmental movement, green economy, neoliberalism, politics, populism, privatization

It has been more than two years since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as “AMLO”) began his six-year term as

A Public Energy Response to the Climate Emergency

May 2021 Sean Sweeney

This edition of New Labor Forum features three contributions that make the case for public ownership of energy in different

Healing into Power: An Approach for Confronting Workplace Sexual Violence

May 2021May 2021 Administrator equality, immigrant workers, Labor, sexual violence, women workers, working class

By Sanjay Pinto, Zoë West, and KC Wagner Since its emergence in the early 1990s, the Justice for Janitors campaign

U.S. Health Care: Undocumented Immigrants Shut Out

April 2021May 2021 Nadhia Rahman health care, health care reform, health disparities, immigrant workers, undocumented immigrants, undocumented workers

The undocumented population in the United States has been forced to navigate a country where vitriol against immigrants runs rampant,

Save the News: Campaigning to Preserve Jobs and Democratize Journalism A Conversation with Jon Schleuss

April 2021April 2021 Administrator collective bargaining, journalism, organizing, racism, trade unions, union democracy

Jon Schleuss, a data reporter and union leader at the Los Angeles Times, defeated a 12-year incumbent to become president

Quantitative Data Tools for Service Sector Organizing

February 2021February 2021 Administrator data, experiments, networks, organizing, trade unions

By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, and Patrick Youngblood Scholars concerned about the future of the labor movement often

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