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Covid-19 has provided a stark reminder that today’s world is both scarred by grotesque levels of inequality and populated by

On the Contrary

U.S. Bargaining and Organizing Rights Trail Every Other Democracy

January 2022January 2022 Larry Cohen capitalism, collective bargaining, global unions, Labor, trade unions, unorganized workers

Collective bargaining contracts in the private sector, the engine of our economy, currently protect a mere 7 percent of U.S.

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Decolonizing the Cultural Workplace: A New Organizing Front

December 2021January 2022 Andrew Ross capitalism, decolonization, education, museums, racism

See below this article for an accompanying article, Modern Art/Ancient Wages, by Kitty Krupat. Decolonizing is hard work. Nor is

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Always Essential: Grocery Store Work in a Pandemic

November 2021November 2021 Kressent Pottenger capitalism, collective bargaining, corporations, equality, industry, living wage, women workers, working class

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Norma Leiva, a warehouse manager at

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Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

August 2021August 2021 Sean Sweeney capitalism, climate change, corporations, environmental movement, green economy, sweatshops, working class

Photo credit: aqua.mech, Creative Commons In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be

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Labor’s Capital: Why and How to Put Public Capital at the Service of Labor

January 2021August 2021 Robert C. Hockett banking, capital, capitalism, deindustrialization, development, equality, finance, industry, investment, Labor, outsourcing, production, speculation

Setting the Stage Here in the United States, we have an economic system in which public capital—the publicly issued national

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Can the Chilean Uprising Survive the Pandemic?

October 2020November 2020 Administrator capitalism, informal economy, neoliberalism, radicalism, working class

Photo caption: Feed-in marchers join ongoing mass protests against the Piñera government demanding a new Chilean constitution, Santiago, Chile, December

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Moneybags for Billionaires, Body Bags for Workers: Organizing in the Time of Pandemics

October 2020October 2020 Marilyn Sneiderman bargaining for the common good, capitalism, collective bargaining, covid-19, Labor

Photo caption: In Bel Air on July 1, 2020, Marie Germaine, a local elementary school teacher speaks at a press

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In a Covid-19 World, Can Hotel Workers Keep Their Gains?

September 2020September 2020 David Bacon capitalism, collective bargaining, equality, immigrant workers, Labor

Photo caption: Anand Singh (center) in the middle of Minneapolis’ Fourth Street, during coordinated national demonstrations against Marriott in 2018.

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