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Volume 33, Issue 3, Fall 2024

Contents

Labor and the Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge 
By Jason Resnikoff

How the U.S. Labor Movement Is Confronting AI
By Alex Press

AI in Organizing: Balancing Promise and Peril
By Austin Thompson

Bidenomics: A Giant Step Forward for Workers
By Mark Levinson

Innovations in 21st Century Organizing   

Unions, Class and Power in the Tech Industry 
By M. Fisher

Remembering Master Union Organizer and Strategist Jane McAlevey 
 A review of Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations
by Jane F. McAlevey and Abby Lawlor
By Steven Pitts

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee: A Rare Attempt at Labor Innovation
By Eric Blanc

Cuba’s Economic Crisis Deepens
By Cathy Kunkel

Working for a Just Transition: The State of Labor-Climate Action in the U.S. 
By Todd E. Vachon

Pakistan’s Elections: Has the Ground Shifted? 
By Raza Gillani

Columns

Working-Class Voices
Union and Community at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
By Kressent Pottenger

Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground
The Dark Doldrums:  Has Germany’s Energy Transition Reached a Dead End?
By Sean Sweeney

Books and the Arts

Reflections on the Essential Worker 
Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
By Elizabeth Anderson

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
By Alissa Quart
Reviewed by Sophie Clark

The New Finance Capital: Modern Vampires of the City? 
The Fall and Rise of American Finance: from J.P. Morgan to Blackrock
By Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno
Reviewed by Jim Kane

Chronicling the Assault on Union Freedoms
From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Trade Union Freedoms
fourth edition
 By Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz
Reviewed by Eric Tucker

No Labor Revitalization Without Activating the Rank and File 
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
by Hamilton Nolan
Reviewed by Luis Feliz León          

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

Poetry
By Ryler Dustin

Trailer Park Psalm

A Secret