The Urban Librarian: Out of the Stacks and into the Community
Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Kayla Hoskinson, Librarian and Co-Chief Steward
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Does “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future?
Commentators right and left survey today’s political landscape and conclude, with historian Matt Karp, that “the political story of the
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Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later
Credit: Luis Feliz Leon, labor journalist. Caption: Amazon delivery driver Jogernsyn Cardenas stopped his van to join the strike and
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Lessons from a Landmark Campaign: An Interview with Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors
Caption: Justice for Janitors March, July 10, 2010. Credit: SEIU local 1 Stephen Lerner joined SEIU in the mid-1980s and
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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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