From the Ashes of the Old: A New Deal for Wildland Firefighters
A massive overhaul and expansion of the wildland workforce is the best hope we have to confront the firestorm that threatens to engulf the West Coast.
Spring 2024
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Belabored: The Value of Care, with Alyssa Battistoni
The author of A Planet to Win talks about Biden’s infrastructure proposals and why care jobs are green jobs.
From Fossil Capitalism to Green Democracy
An interview with Kate Aronoff about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
After the Coal Rush
In Montceau-les-Mines, a French town once dependent on coal mining, there was no just transition from fossil fuels. Once a left-leaning industrial hub, Montceau today is an open field for the far right.
Belabored: The Power of Alt-Labor
Worker centers organize workers excluded from labor regulations and disconnected from mainstream unions. They have brought fresh energy to the labor movement.
Up From Sweatshops
For decades, economists have promoted low-wage textile industry as the best way for poor countries to build a manufacturing base. In East Africa, the promised trickle-down effects of foreign investment have not materialized.
A Reparative Politics for the Climate Crisis: A Roundtable
To envision a global Green New Deal requires a serious effort to grasp the deep inequities of the international economic order.
The Next Amazon Union Drive
Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
Hunger at the End of the Supply Chain
The workers who sew clothes for global apparel giants are facing widespread hunger and destitution during the pandemic—even as many of these corporations continue to turn a profit.
Belabored: Black Against Amazon, with Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley
Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss Amazon and the state of the Black working class.
And a Union
It’s in moments when even the best-case scenario on the table doesn’t get us far enough that socialist ideas are most important.
Will the PRO Act Hurt Freelancers?
Labor lawyer Brandon Magner discusses what the PRO Act’s ABC test means for freelancers.
Belabored: Women on Labor’s Frontline, with Jo Grady
Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom, talks about the prospects for a truly feminist labor movement.
The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City
An interview with Gabriel Winant on deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
The Public Sector We Need
To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.
