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Belabored Podcast #173: Wages for Warcraft, with Jamie Woodcock

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 16, 2019

The labor that makes the multi-billion-dollar video-game industry possible, educators fighting back in New York and Chicago, the IRS auditing poor people, and much more.

The Road to Renewal

Michelle Chen, Sarah Jaffe and Mark Levinson ▪ Spring 2019

Even in its weakened state, the labor movement remains the largest organizational counterweight to capital and the power of the wealthy.

Introducing our Spring 2019 special section, Labor’s Comeback.

How Eugene Debs Became a Socialist

Michael Kazin ▪ Spring 2019

Before Eugene Debs became the most popular socialist in American history, he was an innovative and courageous labor leader. As leader of the American Railway Union (ARU), founded in 1893, he attempted to gather all the crafts in what was …

Belabored Podcast #172: Putting Climate Justice to Work, with Rusty Hicks

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 30, 2019

Capitol Hill is abuzz with the Green New Deal. But is the rest of the economy, and its workers, ready for the kind of dramatic transformation that the climate change movement is calling for?

Belabored Episode #171: Orchestra on Strike! with Robert Kassinger

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 16, 2019

Musicians take to the picket lines in Chicago, New York nurses prepare to strike, and a deep look into how automation affects women workers.

Belabored Podcast #170: An Amazon Autopsy, with Camille Rivera

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 2, 2019

An interview with RWDSU’s Camille Rivera, on the labor and community organizing behind the defeat of the Amazon HQ2 deal in Queens.

Belabored Podcast #169: Shutting it Down, with Sara Nelson

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 15, 2019

We’re joined by AFA President Sara Nelson, whose leadership of flight attendants and calls for a general strike helped end the government shutdown.

State of the Unions

Colin Gordon ▪ February 13, 2019

The latest numbers on union membership in the public and private sectors are not pretty.

Belabored Podcast #168: Victory in L.A., with Arlene Inouye

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 5, 2019

What did the L.A. teachers win? UTLA bargaining committee chair Arlene Inouye joins us to talk about the contract.

Belabored Podcast #167: L.A. Teachers Shut It Down, with Alex Caputo-Pearl

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ January 14, 2019

A report from the picket line.

L.A. Teachers Prepare to Strike

Nelson Lichtenstein ▪ January 7, 2019

Here’s what’s at stake.

Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ December 15, 2018

Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.