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Ten years ago, Chicago educators lit the fuse of what eventually became a national teachers’ revolt. Faced with Democratic Mayor

Domestic Worker Organizing in Neo-Authoritarian Brazil

Brazil is a country marked by historically rooted social, political, and economic inequalities. These are linked primarily to the centuries-long

By the end of the 2010s, only 6 percent of U.S. private-sector workers were union members—the lowest share in a

The painting on the cover of this issue of New Labor Forum is titled “The March of the People.” It

In March 2021, the massive container ship Ever Given, part of the Evergreen fleet, carrying eighteen thousand containers, ran aground,

Airport workers, 32BJ members, and allies arrested while blocking the entrance to LaGuardia Airport on January 20, 2014. Courtesy of

The Covid-19 pandemic has both illustrated and dramatized the ongoing North/South divide on planet Earth. The question of who has

Figure 1. Composition of U.S. Pension Fund Assets, 1945-2020. Marginal categories excluded for readability are money market fund shares, deposits

Caption: Vintage MoMA — Museum of Modern Art workers demonstrate in 2016. A half century ago, in 1971, staffers at

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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