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The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture.
Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.
The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.
Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.
A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.
The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.
Dependence is a fact of all our lives; freedom lies in our capacity to care for others.
And what today’s organizers can learn from them.
Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.
Sex workers are labor's vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril.
How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.
Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.
T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.
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