How Antitrust Can Help Tame Capital and Empower Labor
By Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan After decades of operating in distinct silos, the antitrust and labor movements have lately
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The Strike: Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
By Bob Master At 11 a.m. on Monday, August 3, 1981, President Ronald Reagan strode to a podium in the
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Working for Cash: America’s Wage Problem
Caption: Press conference by Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy on wage theft. Credit: Los Angeles Alliance for a
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Corporate Railroading in the Twenty-First Century: A Train Conductor’s Life
Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Nick Wurst, a freight train conductor
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Open for Business: The Supreme Court Curbs Federal Regulatory Power
The current U.S. Supreme Court has been making a habit of pushing itself into the center of American politics, issuing
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Independent Unions: The Allure of a Failing Strategy
In the aftermath of the remarkable and unprecedented victory of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) at a Staten Island facility
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U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Democracy
Credit: Communication Workers of America From its inception, the U.S. labor movement’s fate has been intimately bound up with the
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Office Space: The Political Economy of Remote Work
To think of the modern office is to think almost reflexively of something sterile and static—bright fluorescent lights, stale bitter
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Who Pays for Inflation?
Caption: Fred Wright cartoon from the 1970s, updated to reflect increases in corporate profits, prices and wages over the past
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Sectoral Bargaining: Labor’s Pathway to Power?
Top: Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at May Day 2021 rally. Photo credit: Alex Casconne Bottom: Union members at
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