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The Case for “A Right to Your Job” Campaign

August 2018August 2018 Moshe Marvit and Shaun Richman community organizations, democractic party, employment rights, just cause, Labor, union organizing

A proposal for Advancing Worker Rights and Power

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Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing U.S. Politics & Society 

The Time Has Come for Sectoral Bargaining

June 2018August 2018 Larry Cohen collective bargaining, right-to-work

It is now clear that enterprise-based organizing and bargaining in the U.S. has a dim future.  U.S. workers’ collective bargaining

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Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing U.S. Politics & Society 

An Odd Twist: Might a Response to Janus Make Adjunct Organizing Easier in New York State?

June 2018August 2018 Luke Elliott-Negri and Marc Kagan adjuncts, Janus, organizing, right-to-work

Like most contingent workers, adjunct faculty are hard to organize and mobilize. The Janus v. AFSCME ruling will no doubt

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Featured U.S. Politics & Society 

The New Geography of Suburbia: An Anatomy of America’s Hinterland

May 2018August 2018 Phil A. Neel capitalism, cities, crisis, deindustrialization, geography, industry, Marxism, riots

From suburban dreams to suburban nightmares.

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Featured Race Working-Class Culture 

Portrait of the Worker as a Black Woman

May 2018August 2018 Adom Getachew art; artist; review; working-class;

“The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers” National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Nov. 3, 2017 through Sept. 3, 2018

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Featured U.S. Politics & Society 

Napoleons in Pinstripes: The Rise of the Business Mogul as Politician

May 2018August 2018 Lily Geismer capitalism, Democratic Party, elections, politics, privatization, Republican Party

The authoritarian threat when titans of business invade the political arena.

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Featured Race Social Movements 

Mourning King: The Civil Rights Movement and the Fight for Economic Justice

May 2018August 2018 Reuel Schiller liberalism, politics, poverty, racism, social welfare

Did Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination mark the end of a movement merging racial and economic justice?

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Featured International Labor & Politics 

Left-Wing Populism Meets “La Grande Crisi”

May 2018May 2018 Richard Drake elections, Italy, left-wing, populism

The enigma at the heart of Italian politics.

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Featured The Domestic Economy 

Organized Money: What is Corporate America Thinking?-Freedom’s Janus Face

May 2018May 2018 Max Fraser corporate funding, Harris V Quinn, Janus, organized money

The pro-business forces behind the Janus case

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Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing 

What Should Unions Do After The Strike Wave Recedes?

April 2018May 2018 Chris Brooks education, public sector, strikes, teachers

Teachers Strike Wave Does Not Guarantee Stronger Unions It was only eight years ago that seething hostility towards teacher unions

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