Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge
Credit for cover and Resnikoff: From Pixabay. Pete Linforth created this image using AI. The material changes ushered in under
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Bidenomics: A Giant Step Forward for Workers
Credit: ABCDStock Caption: Construction workers laying new asphalt to repair the road. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided funding
Read MoreCorporations Call for “Net Zero” Emissions: Do They Know How to Get There?
Volume 25, Issue 3, Fall 2016 In the months leading to the December 2015 Paris Climate Conference representatives of global
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Working for Cash: America’s Wage Problem
Caption: Press conference by Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy on wage theft. Credit: Los Angeles Alliance for a
Read MoreGlobal South Unions Search for a “Public Pathway” Approach to Energy Transition
Several decades ago, unions in the Global South were on the cutting edge of societal struggles for democracy, new forms
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Corporate Railroading in the Twenty-First Century: A Train Conductor’s Life
Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Nick Wurst, a freight train conductor
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Europe’s New Authoritarianism
The Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, during the fascist regime of
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Why We Need Debtors’ Unions
Even if they don’t bring on a recession, the Federal Reserve’s recent series of interest rate hikes have already dampened
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Barista Solidarity from Buffalo to Oklahoma City
Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Alyssa Sperrazza, a barista trainer at
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Office Space: The Political Economy of Remote Work
To think of the modern office is to think almost reflexively of something sterile and static—bright fluorescent lights, stale bitter
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