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Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.

Elizabeth Catte

Class & Inequality, Reading Lists

Get Organized

“Organizing is the strategy on which the success of all others depend. Yet it is the strategy that most progressives talk about the least.”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Forum

Why the Labor Movement Has Failed—And How to Fix It

Traditional worker organizing has failed on every level. But new approaches are finding success, pointing the way to a more just future.

Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, Joseph A. McCartin

Gender & Sexuality, Reading Lists

Sex Work Is Work

—and why consent isn’t the same thing as good sex. An International Whores Day reading list.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Solidarity in Silicon Valley

Tech companies have seen waves of worker protest, but they are still far from democratic. The remedy is to build and exert real forms of worker power inside the workplace.

Brishen Rogers

U.S.

Why the Labor Movement Has Failed—And How to Fix It

Traditional worker organizing has failed on every level. But new approaches are finding success, pointing the way to a more just future.

Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, Joseph A. McCartin

Reading Lists

Amazon’s Empire

Our best writers take on the retail giant.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Gender & Sexuality

Sex Is Not the Problem with Sex Work

Under capitalism, you don’t have to love your job to want to keep it.

Juno Mac, Molly Smith

Class & Inequality

The Last Man to Know Everything

The Marxist-environmental historian Mike Davis has produced a rich corpus critical of capitalism.

Troy Vettese

Politics

What Would Frances Perkins Do?

We should turn to Frances Perkins—FDR’s secretary of labor, and the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet—for the elements of a new forward-looking labor and employment policy.

Thomas A. Kochan

Class & Inequality

Think Different

Apple—now worth a trillion dollars—redistributes more wealth upward than any country or corporation on the planet.

Robert Homan

Race

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook.

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

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