Queer Working-Class Politics and the U.S. Labor Movement
Caption: Starbucks workers and organizers from Philadelphia and other cities plus other Philly workers rallied at City Hall. Credit: Joe
Read MoreCaption: Starbucks workers and organizers from Philadelphia and other cities plus other Philly workers rallied at City Hall. Credit: Joe
Read MoreEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Susannah Carr, a flight attendant at
Read MoreBy Suzanne Kahn At the start of The Socialist Manifesto, by Bhaskar Sunkara, which seeks to reclaim the history of socialism
Read MoreEditor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed three women who are members of
Read MoreA good number of sex workers wouldn’t define themselves as sex workers, but the term is becoming more ubiquitous over
Read MoreThe #MeToo movement represents an opportunity for the labor movement to authentically connect to the experiences of women in all
Read MorePower and sexploitation at work.
Read MoreThe January 2018 issue of New Labor Forum, off press this week, grapples with perhaps the most perplexing of the 2016
Read MoreThe LGBT movement’s laser-focus on marriage equality propagates the myth of gay and lesbian affluence as political strategy, leaving aside any analysis of class or economic inequality or poverty—much less an analysis of capitalism. LGBT people are typically depicted as affluent consumers with high disposable incomes, yet this is hardly the norm. The majority of LGBT/Q people are poor or working class, female, and people of color, who struggle to get a job or hold onto one, to pay their rent and care for themselves and the people they love.
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