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It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing at Amazon after Bessemer

August 2021September 2021 Sarah Jaffe amazon, bessemer, collective bargaining, unorganized workers, worker centers

The Amazon workers union election in Bessemer, Alabama was the most-covered union drive in many years. The New York Times

Democratizing the Knowledge Economy: Will Labor Accept the Challenge?

August 2021September 2021 J. Phillip Thompson and Christine Curella knowledge economy, labor unions, platform cooperatives, politics, race

We are in the midst of cascading political, economic, health, and environmental crises. Perhaps most evident is the Republican Party’s

Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground Featured

Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

August 2021August 2021 Sean Sweeney capitalism, climate change, corporations, environmental movement, green economy, sweatshops, working class

Photo credit: aqua.mech, Creative Commons In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be

Social Democracy or Fortress Democracy? A Twenty-First Century Immigration Plan

August 2021September 2021 Deepak Bhargava climate change, Democratic Party, globalization, immigrant workers, politics, populism, working class

In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois observed that “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of

Why Anyone Concerned about Climate Change Should Support Nuclear Power

August 2021August 2021 Administrator climate change, nuclear power

By Leonard Rodberg Though many environmentalists and climate change advocates reject nuclear power, without this reliable source of clean power,

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Healthcare Reform in a Post-Pandemic World

June 2021August 2021 Mark Dudzic health care, Labor, neoliberalism, trade unions, working class

The industrialized world’s most unequal and inefficient healthcare system underwent a stress test this past pandemic year and failed miserably.

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

May 2021August 2021 Dominic Brown climate change, deindustrialization, green economy, industrialization, Labor, neoliberalism

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

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

May 2021August 2021 Sinéad Mercier austerity, climate change, environmental movement, green economy, neoliberalism, politics, privatization

For thirty years, governments have been promising climate action. They seem incapable of undertaking the necessary major shifts in their

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 2021August 2021 Sean Sweeney

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

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