With her 2011 book The Problem with Work, political theorist Kathi Weeks helped kickstart a theoretical renaissance of work-critical socialist feminism. Now sheās back…
Donald Trump is president again. He spitballs ideas out loud or on Twitter, relishing the fear and dislocation he creates, and then…
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The United Auto Workers won many of their demands in their groundbreaking, six-week strike inĀ 2023, but one of themāāādespite not making it…
Andrea Villanueva was in bargaining five days ago, negotiating a new contract for herself and 500 other retail janitors who clean some of the Twin Citiesā most…
I began to reread Barbara Ehrenreichās Nickel and DimedĀ (2001) after aĀ particularly intense restaurant-work stress dream IĀ had in OctoberĀ 2022. The book is widely…
On August 4, hundreds of Amazon warehouse workers in Tilbury, Essex, England, organized their own wildcat strike. Angry at a paltry raise offerāthirty-five pence (forty-seven cents)…
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