The Assault on the CFPB: Current State of Play
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created in the face of industry resistance. With a Republican Congress and President Trump
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Video: Debt, Wall Street, and Public Sector Unions
At last year’s conference on Public Sector Unions, Saqib Bhatti presented on how debt has replaced income in the US
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New Titles From NLF Authors
The City Is the Factory examines the “relocation of the space of protest from the factory to the city . . . see[ing] in it a shift that is both historically distinct and politically significant. Across these city-oriented struggles, [the book’s essay’s] focus on the increasing prominence of what Henri Lefebvre called “right to the city” demands and…
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What labor should learn from Trump’s victory: Responding to Cohen, Weingarten and Casey
Unlike Hillary Clinton, a one-time member of the Walmart board of directors, Sanders has been a lifelong friend of labor with the record to prove it. It was Sanders who represented the leftwing of the possible, not Clinton. Moreover, a Sanders presidency was certainly…
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Labor Under Putin: The State of the Russian Working Class
Since 1991, Russia has seen massive changes in the structure of the economy, control over property, the reconfiguring of employment by sector, the provision of social benefits, and the nature of the labor market. The impact of these shifts on work…
Read MoreFrom the Editorial Team | Fall 2016
We write this on the day following Donald Trump’s electoral triumph. That stunning victory raises more questions than it answers.
Read MoreHow Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence
Article originally published at nonsite.org. Some readers will know that I’ve contended that, despite its proponents’ assertions, antiracism is not a
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Labor Wars: Two Reasons Why Most Unions Don’t Do Large-Scale Organizing
In this article, views of Shaun Richman are expressed followed by a response from Jonathan Rosenblum Two Reasons Why Most Unions Don’t Do Large-Scale Organizing By Shaun Richman In 2005, the labor movement…
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Watch Labor Leaders Speak at the DNC
Last week, several labor leaders addressed the 2016 Democratic National Convention. The New Labor Forum has compiled the speeches from
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The People’s Summit, June 17-19, 2016, in Chicago
This coming weekend some 3000 union members, progressives and outright socialists will be gathering in Chicago for The People’s Summit.
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