Women Farmworkers Fight to Secure Their Rights and End Sexual Harassment
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger inter- viewed three women who are members
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Rethinking the Problem of Alliance
Highlights for April 15th The gaping income and wealth inequality, increasing constrictions on democratic rights, and perilous ecological unsustainability that
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#MeToo Inside the Labor Movement
The #MeToo movement represents an opportunity for the labor movement to authentically connect to the experiences of women in all
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The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Corbyn
Taking back the British Labour Party.
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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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A Response to Richard Alba’s “The Likely Persistence of a White Majority”
That politics undergirds censuses is a truism. At least since Benedict Anderson wrote Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and
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Recognize, Reduce, Redistribute Unpaid Care Work: How to Close the Gender Gap
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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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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The Subprime Specter Returns: High Finance and the Growth of High-Risk Consumer Debt
Recognizing the risks to the public, regulators have begun to step in to curtail abuses and hold accountable those who violate the law in lending practices that affect all borrowers, including those with subprime credit scores. While default rates remain relatively low thus far with these subprime loans, we should guard against complacency. Despite the fact that large banks may be pulling back…
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Marxism and Consumer Culture
Our obsession with the question of what sort of consciousness attaches itself most readily to the culture of consumption has paradoxically blinded us to the ways in which the ideal type of the American consumer has achieved a new level of uncontested sovereignty in the political rhetoric of our market culture.
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