U.S. Politics & Society

NLF Highlights U.S. Politics & Society 

The Big Other: A Theory of Surveillance Capitalism

January 2019January 2019 Paula Finn capitalism, collective action, democracy, digital technologies, internet, power, social inequality, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, twenty-first-century society

Highlights for Jan 22nd Original insights into the workings of an ever-evolving capitalism are rare occurrences. We are proud to

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U.S. Politics & Society 

Surveillance Capitalism and the Challenge of Collective Action

January 2019January 2019 Shoshana Zuboff capitalism, collective action, democracy, digital technologies, internet, power, social inequality, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, twenty-first-century society

Publisher’s note: This article has been published by permission of the author. Requests for article permissions and reprints should be

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Is There a Deep State and Who Build Zion?

November 2018 Paula Finn deep state, Israel, Palestine

NLF Highlights Nov 20th With this installment of New Labor Forum Highlights, we offer two important articles from the current

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NLF Highlights U.S. Politics & Society 

Blue Wave or Red Tide? Highlights for Nov 5th

November 2018November 2018 Paula Finn capitalism, democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, elections, electoral politics

With perhaps the most important midterm elections in a generation happening tomorrow, we offer you: an invitation to join us

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NLF Highlights U.S. Politics & Society 

The State of the Unions

October 2018October 2018 Paula Finn labor movement, new york city, new york state, reports, teachers, union density

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies faculty Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce have released their annual report on the

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Featured Gender & Sexual Identity U.S. Politics & Society 

Beyond #MeToo

August 2018February 2019 Judith Levine contingent workers, gender discrimination, immigrant workers, Labor, trade unions, unorganized workers, women workers

Power and sexploitation at work.

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Featured U.S. Politics & Society 

Is There a Deep State, and If So What Is It?

August 2018February 2019 Jacob Silverman democracy, Democratic Party, industry, military-industrial complex, neoliberalism, Republican Party

When paranoia carries the right of truth.

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Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing U.S. Politics & Society 

The Time Has Come for Sectoral Bargaining

June 2018August 2018 Larry Cohen collective bargaining, right-to-work

It is now clear that enterprise-based organizing and bargaining in the U.S. has a dim future.  U.S. workers’ collective bargaining

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Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing U.S. Politics & Society 

An Odd Twist: Might a Response to Janus Make Adjunct Organizing Easier in New York State?

June 2018August 2018 Luke Elliott-Negri and Marc Kagan adjuncts, Janus, organizing, right-to-work

Like most contingent workers, adjunct faculty are hard to organize and mobilize. The Janus v. AFSCME ruling will no doubt

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NLF Highlights U.S. Politics & Society 

The New Geography of Suburbia

June 2018August 2018 Paula Finn poverty, suburbia, urban

Highlights for June 11th In this newsletter, we turn our attention to the suburbs. And for good reason, since that’s

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