Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Nick Wurst, a freight train conductor

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Barista Solidarity from Buffalo to Oklahoma City

September 2022November 2022 Kressent Pottenger capitalism, collective bargaining, health care, living wage, unorganized workers

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Alyssa Sperrazza, a barista trainer at

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

No More “Trolly Dollies”: Flight Attendants Are Safety Professionals

July 2022July 2022 Kressent Pottenger capitalism, collective bargaining, democracy, equality, gender discrimination, industry, Labor, women workers

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Susannah Carr, a flight attendant at

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

110 Degrees in the Truck: Sanitation Workers Deserve Better

January 2022January 2022 Kressent Pottenger green economy, industry, Labor, living wage, social welfare, working class

Terrill Haigler Photo credit: Hibbard Nash Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Always Essential: Grocery Store Work in a Pandemic

November 2021November 2021 Kressent Pottenger capitalism, collective bargaining, corporations, equality, industry, living wage, women workers, working class

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Norma Leiva, a warehouse manager at

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

A Passion for Teaching and a Vision for Change

July 2021 Kressent Pottenger austerity, education, equality, Labor, neoliberalism, women workers

Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Jia Lee, a special education teacher

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Backstage with a Makeup Artist

January 2021January 2021 Kressent Pottenger austerity, Labor, racism, social welfare, trade unions, unemployment, union democracy, women workers, working class

Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Cynthia O’Rourke, a makeup artist and member

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Speed-Ups, Write-Ups, and Profits Up at Amazon

July 2020April 2021 Kressent Pottenger amazon, Amazon workers

Editor’s Note: For this article in New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” series, columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed William Stolz, who has

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