Volume 34, Issue 2, Spring 2025

Contents

Thinking Big for Organizing, Past and Future

Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later
By Lane Windham

How to Unionize One Million Workers Every Year
By Eric Blanc

Organizing Logistics Chokepoints: Hitting Them Where It Hurts
By Benjamin Y. Fong

The Four-Day Workweek: Possibility or Pipe Dream?
By Juliet Schor

The Political Life Cycle of the Labor Movement
By Steve Fraser

When the AFL-CIO Almost Divested from Israel
By Jeff Schuhrke

Capitalism and Authoritarianism in Maduro’s Venezuela
By Gabriel Hetland

Resentment and Recrimination: Can U.S. Labor Unions and Indian Tech Workers on H-1B Visas Ever Get Along?
By Rianka Roy

Columns

Working-Class Voices

The Urban Librarian: Out of the Stacks and into the Community
By Kressent Pottenger

Books and the Arts

Revisiting Harry Braverman’s Classic Labor and Monopoly Capital 
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
By Harry Braverman
Reviewed by Sophina Clark and Daniel Judt

Our Current Marx Boom 
Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought
By Bruno Leipold
Marx’s Ethical Vision
By Vanessa Christina Wills
Reviewed by Andrew Hartman

Corporate Democracy and the Role of Worker Co-Governance 
Democratizing the Corporation: The Bicameral Firm and Beyond
Edited by Isabelle Ferreras, Tom Malleson, and Joel Rogers
Reviewed by Jason Spicer

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

Poetry
By Patricia Smith

That Chile Emmett in That Casket

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah