Dissent in 2020
Highlights from a year of upheaval.
Winter 2025
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After Trump: A Preview of Our Winter 2021 Issue
A look at our forthcoming Winter 2021 issue, After Trump.
Harvard Workers Left Out in the Cold
In January the university plans to cut the compensation of its janitorial staff. Contracted workers could get nothing.
Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With the Supreme Court? With the 5-4 Podcast
The hosts of the podcast 5-4 talk about the rise of the conservative legal movement and the Supreme Court’s assault on American democracy.
Belabored: How the Pandemic Changed Our Working Lives
Rebecca Dixon, Bill Fletcher Jr., and Jane McAlevey look back on 2020, a tumultuous year for workers.
[EVENT | December 14] Belabored Live: How the Pandemic Changed Our Working Lives
Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, the co-hosts of the Belabored podcast, will gather some of the smartest thinkers about labor and unions to look back on 2020, a tumultuous year for workers.
Know Your Enemy: Talking Trump, with David Roth
David Roth, one of the best (and funniest) chroniclers of Donald Trump, takes stock of a grotesque and damaged man as he prepares to leave the White House.
Belabored: Renewing Unions in the Age of Finance, with Alice Martin and Annie Quick
A new book, Unions Renewed, suggests that labor needs to update its playbook for a new period of capitalist development.
Our Winter Reading List
We’re partnering with our friends at Verso Books to offer you a winter reading list curated by our editors.
Hot & Bothered: A Glide Path to Ruin
Where should the climate movement be focusing its energy in the Biden era?
Belabored: Labor at the Ballot Box
While the presidential race ended with a narrow victory for the Democrats, the electorate revealed how sharply divided it is—what does it all mean for labor?
A Letter to My Students on the Election
The president’s refusal to concede lays groundwork for the narrative of a new “Lost Cause.”
A Blow for Labor Rights in California
Gig workers were barely scraping by even before companies like Uber spent $200 million on the successful campaign to pass Proposition 22. Now, two paths lie ahead: one paved by corporate cash, and the other blazed by the workers behind the wheel.
Belabored: Trump’s Broken Promises
Trump and Pence claim that industrial jobs are “booming” under their leadership. In Lordstown and Indianapolis, local labor organizers tell a different story.
Know Your Enemy: Suburban Woman, with Dorothy Fortenberry
Dorothy Fortenberry, playwright and writer on The Handmaid’s Tale, talks about gender and politics, the work women do, the importance of institutions, the #Resistance, and more.
