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Office Space: The Political Economy of Remote Work

September 2022September 2022 Joel Suarez capitalism, Labor, neoliberalism, office work, professional class, women workers, working class

To think of the modern office is to think almost reflexively of something sterile and static—bright fluorescent lights, stale bitter

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Always Essential: Grocery Store Work in a Pandemic

November 2021November 2021 Kressent Pottenger capitalism, collective bargaining, corporations, equality, industry, living wage, women workers, working class

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Norma Leiva, a warehouse manager at

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Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

August 2021August 2021 Sean Sweeney capitalism, climate change, corporations, environmental movement, green economy, sweatshops, working class

Photo credit: aqua.mech, Creative Commons In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be

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Social Democracy or Fortress Democracy? A Twenty-First Century Immigration Plan

August 2021September 2021 Deepak Bhargava climate change, Democratic Party, globalization, immigrant workers, politics, populism, working class

In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois observed that “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of

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Healthcare Reform in a Post-Pandemic World

June 2021August 2021 Mark Dudzic health care, Labor, neoliberalism, trade unions, working class

The industrialized world’s most unequal and inefficient healthcare system underwent a stress test this past pandemic year and failed miserably.

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Healing into Power: An Approach for Confronting Workplace Sexual Violence

May 2021August 2021 Sanjay Pinto, Zoë West and KC Wagner equality, immigrant workers, Labor, sexual violence, women workers, working class

Since its emergence in the early 1990s, the Justice for Janitors campaign has held a place of prominence in the

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Backstage with a Makeup Artist

January 2021January 2021 Kressent Pottenger austerity, Labor, racism, social welfare, trade unions, unemployment, union democracy, women workers, working class

Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Cynthia O’Rourke, a makeup artist and member

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Can the Chilean Uprising Survive the Pandemic?

October 2020November 2020 Administrator capitalism, informal economy, neoliberalism, radicalism, working class

Photo caption: Feed-in marchers join ongoing mass protests against the Piñera government demanding a new Chilean constitution, Santiago, Chile, December

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