Is Care Work Already the Future?
“PROTESTORS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS.” Among the multitude of makeshift signs I saw on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) marches of
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
From Universal Rent Control to Cancel Rent: Tenant Organizing in New York State
By Celia Weaver New York’s housing crisis is so entrenched that it is understood to be nearly inevitable. “The rent
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Labor’s Capital: Why and How to Put Public Capital at the Service of Labor
Setting the Stage Here in the United States, we have an economic system in which public capital—the publicly issued national
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Five Years On, the Paris Climate Agreement Needs an Overhaul
Photo credit: John Englart (Takver), Flickr It’s been five years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed.[1] Negotiated in late
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Can the Chilean Uprising Survive the Pandemic?
Photo caption: Feed-in marchers join ongoing mass protests against the Piñera government demanding a new Chilean constitution, Santiago, Chile, December
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More Austerity Coming? Lessons from New York’s 1970s Fiscal Crisis
Photo caption: Andrea Vásquez, Professional Staff Congress (PSC) first Vice President, before heading to the May 18, 2020, caravan calling
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The Red for Ed Movement, Two Years In
Photo caption: Teachers’ strike in Phoenix, Arizona on April 26, 2018. Photo credit: Eric Blanc By Eric Blanc In late
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Moneybags for Billionaires, Body Bags for Workers: Organizing in the Time of Pandemics
Photo caption: In Bel Air on July 1, 2020, Marie Germaine, a local elementary school teacher speaks at a press
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In a Covid-19 World, Can Hotel Workers Keep Their Gains?
Photo caption: Anand Singh (center) in the middle of Minneapolis’ Fourth Street, during coordinated national demonstrations against Marriott in 2018.
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Public Health, Private Equity, and the Pandemic
UPMC Susquehanna closed the former Sunbury Community Hospital on January 31, 2020–about six weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic reached the
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