Does “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future?
Commentators right and left survey today’s political landscape and conclude, with historian Matt Karp, that “the political story of the
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
Resentment and Recrimination: Can U.S. Labor Unions and Indian Tech Workers on H-1B Visas Ever Get Along?
Credit: RDNE Stock project, Pexels The start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term will probably be remembered for the
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Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later
Credit: Luis Feliz Leon, labor journalist. Caption: Amazon delivery driver Jogernsyn Cardenas stopped his van to join the strike and
Read MoreOrganizing Logistics Chokepoints: Hitting Them Where It Hurts
In the popular imaginary, Ford’s River Rouge complex has come to represent an industrial age long gone. Completed in 1928,
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The Four-Day Workweek: Possibility or Pipedream?
Credit: Ris and Ry, Unsplash In 2018, a New Zealand-based entrepreneur named Andrew Barnes began an eight-week experiment at his
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Essential Workers: Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change
Caption: Construction workers have to deal with extreme heat, the leading cause of climate-related fatalities. Credit: Mikael Blomkvist, Pexels Around
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Lessons from a Landmark Campaign: An Interview with Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors
Caption: Justice for Janitors March, July 10, 2010. Credit: SEIU local 1 Stephen Lerner joined SEIU in the mid-1980s and
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Central American Democracy in Crisis
Left photo: Nayib Bukele during the 2019 presidential elections in El Salvador, February 3, 2019. Credit: Presidential House, El Salvador
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The United Auto Workers’ Southern Offensive
“Organize the South!” has long been a progressive imperative, from the interracial Union Leagues that sought to defend Reconstruction-era radicalism
Read MoreA New Route for Auto Workers: An Interview with the UAW’s Jonah Furman
Things tend to move slowly in the American labor movement—big ships don’t change course quickly. An exception has been in
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