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

January 2021January 2021 Administrator 0 Comments banking, capital, capitalism, deindustrialization, development, equality, finance, industry, investment, Labor, outsourcing, production, speculation

By Robert C. Hockett Setting the Stage Here in the United States, we have an economic system in which public

Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing

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.

Working-Class Voices

Women Farmworkers Fight to Secure Their Rights and End Sexual Harassment

July 2019January 2020 Kressent Pottenger, Dolores Bustamante, Elvira Carvajal and Mily Treviño-Saucedo climate change, community organizations, equality, gender discrimination, health care, immigrant workers, living wage, women workers

Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed three women who are members of

NLF Highlights Race

Rethinking the Problem of Alliance

April 2019 Paula Finn African Americans, economic democracy, equality, organized labor, Poetry, working class

Highlights for April 15th The gaping income and wealth inequality, increasing constrictions on democratic rights, and perilous ecological unsustainability that

Gender & Sexual Identity Organized Labor & Worker Organizing

#MeToo Inside the Labor Movement

January 2019February 2019 Ana Avendaño collective bargaining, equality, gender discrimination, Labor, racism, trade unions, union democracy, women workers, working class

The #MeToo movement represents an opportunity for the labor movement to authentically connect to the experiences of women in all

Featured International Labor & Politics

The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Corbyn

August 2018February 2019 Hilary Wainwright Brexit, Corbyn, democracy, equality, trade unions, U.K. Labour Party

Taking back the British Labour Party.

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Rethinking the Problem of Alliance: Organized Labor and Black Political Life

August 2017June 2019 Brandon M. Terry and Jason Lee African Americans, Black Lives Matter, community organizations, deindustrialization, democracy, equality, Fall 2017, Labor, neoliberalism, politics, race, racism, working class

What would it take to find common ground?

Class On the Contrary Race

A Response to Richard Alba’s “The Likely Persistence of a White Majority”

April 2017June 2018 G. Cristina Mora and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz demography, equality, Latinos, politics, racism, Spring 2017

That politics undergirds censuses is a truism. At least since Benedict Anderson wrote Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and

Featured Gender & Sexual Identity Low-Wage Work

Recognize, Reduce, Redistribute Unpaid Care Work: How to Close the Gender Gap

March 2017June 2018 Diane Elson care services, equality, gender, parental leave, Spring 2017, unpaid work

In September 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election, in which Hillary Clinton was expected to become the

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Featured Race U.S. Politics & Society

The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age

February 2016June 2018 Adolph Reed community organizations, equality, Labor, living wage, neoliberalism, politics, racism, Spring 2016

The report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black

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