Volume 34, Issue 1, Winter 2025

Contents

From the Editorial Team

Can the UAW Break the Non-Union Confederacy?

The United Auto Workers’ Southern Offensive
By Nelson Lichtenstein

A New Route for Auto Workers: An Interview with the UAW’s Jonah Furman
By Micah Uetricht

Third Time’s the Charm: Assessing the UAW’s Decade-Long Struggle for a Union at Volkswagen
By Abraham Walker

Free Trade, Repressed Workers
By Adam Dean

Central American Democracy in Crisis
By Hilary Goodfriend

Alabama’s and Maryland’s Similar Black Unemployment Rates Mask Major Differences in Labor Market Conditions
By Chandra Childers and Valerie Wilson

Lessons from a Landmark Campaign: An Interview with Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors
By Stephen Lerner and Joseph A. McCartin

Labor Takes the Mayor’s Office: Brandon Johnson and the Challenge of Governing Chicago
By Stephanie Farmer

Essential Workers: Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change
By Urooj Raja

Columns

Working-Class Voices

Planned Parenthood: Bargaining after Dobbs
By Kressent Pottenger

Books and the Arts

Labor History by the Numbers
Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement
By Judith Stepan-Norris and Jasmine Kerrissey
Reviewed by Charles Du

The Gigification of the Modern Professoriate
Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History
Edited by Eric Fure-Slocum & Claire Goldstene
Reviewed by Malini Cadambi-Daniel

Lights, Camera, Action: Unionization at Amazon
Union
Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing
Reviewed by Jeremy Milloy

Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt

Poetry

Ode to the Clothesline
Walk ’Bout
By Kwame Dawes