Baseball’s Labor Wars
MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
Winter 2026
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Belabored: Teacher Strikes in the Age of COVID-19
This week teachers and education workers went on strike in Minneapolis for the the first time in fifty years.
Belabored: Our Neglected Human Infrastructure, with Sadé Dozan
Sadé Dozan of Caring Across Generations discusses the Build Back Better bill, which would put some $150 billion into Medicaid-supported homecare services.
Belabored: Work Without the Workers, with Phil Jones
How do you take industrial action when your workplace is your computer? In his new book, Phil Jones considers the millions of “microworkers” around the world who process data for digital platforms.
Is This a Strike Wave?
We sorely need one, but that first requires the unionization of millions of new workers.
Belabored: Can the United Auto Workers Be Democratized? With Justin Mayhugh
For decades, the United Auto Workers has been controlled by a tight-knit group of insiders. Now members are voting in a historic referendum on how the union elects its central leadership.
Belabored: Toward a Liberatory Unionism, with Eve Livingston
Eve Livingston’s new book, Make Bosses Pay, aims to get young people connected to unions and to push unions to engage more with the working class as it is today: diverse, precarious, and perhaps on the brink of rebellion.
Belabored: The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street, with Ruth Milkman and Nastaran Mohit
Though the occupation didn’t last long, it shaped many subsequent campaigns and movements, including in organized labor.
Belabored: Occupy’s Ten-Year Anniversary, with Stephen Lerner and Jonathan Westin
How did Occupy change the labor movement? And what lessons might it still hold for unions struggling to find their footing in an ever more crisis-prone world?
Belabored: Washington Retreats from a Just Transition, with Joe Uehlein
As hopes for ambitious climate policy fade, Joe Uehlein, Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability, talks about why we must decarbonize the economy while protecting workers.
Belabored: Lost in Work, with Amelia Horgan
Amelia Horgan’s new book, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism, asks what work is, why it sucks, and what we can do to change it.
Belabored: Labor Solidarity in China, with Tobita Chow and Kevin Lin
A conversation about what rising U.S.-China tensions mean for workers and the labor movement in both countries.
Labor Needs an Outside Strategy
Only worker power can make good on the promises of the Biden administration.
Belabored: Strike Averted at the New Yorker, with Gili Ostfield
Reflections on what The New Yorker Union won, how they did it, and what other workers can learn from their victory.
Belabored: Back to Work
If you’re nervous about going back to work, you’re not the only one. Workers and labor advocates discuss what the lifting of pandemic-related restrictions might mean for workplace safety and labor rights.
