The Case for “A Right to Your Job” Campaign
A proposal for Advancing Worker Rights and Power
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Going on Offense During Challenging Times
How collective bargaining becomes a revolutionary act.
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Justice on the Job for Nail Salon Workers– Narbada Chhetri and Pabitra Dash interview with Kressent Pottenger
Organizing on the far side of the economy is gaining ground once thought impossible.
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Rethinking the Problem of Alliance: Organized Labor and Black Political Life
What would it take to find common ground?
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Organizing in a Brave New World
Austerity, growing inequality, and the economic and political domination of billionaires, bankers, hedge funds, and giant corporations make the current moment ripe for birthing a movement that can radically transform the country and the world. This is a time of great peril, but also of extraordinary opportunity and—yes—reasons for hope. The last four decades have been characterized by unrelenting attacks on the working class, the weakening of unions and the financialization of capitalism.
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The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age
The report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black
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Black Lives Matter: Toward a Modern Practice of Mass Struggle
Born as a Twitter hashtag, Black Lives Matter has evolved into a potent alternative to the political paralysis and isolation that racial justice proponents have faced since the election of Obama. In just over two years, the young movement has reinvigorated confrontation politics, giving voice to a popular and righteous rage, establishing a new touchstone of grassroots resistance…
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The Changing Faces of Poverty and Inequality: How We Once Came to Fight a War on Poverty
Why we waged a war on poverty and what we won.
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