https://znetwork.org/author/sarahjaffe/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:59:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/sarahjaffe/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-mourning-to-rage-to-transformation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-mourning-to-rage-to-transformation/#respond Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287692 Donald Trump is president again. He spitballs ideas out loud or on Twitter, relishing the fear and dislocation he creates, and then backtracks or denies even having said it in the first place. The chaos is the point. Despair is common these days in the US, far more so than it was in the first [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-mourning-to-rage-to-transformation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grief-mourning-and-solidarity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grief-mourning-and-solidarity/#respond Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277870 Tempest’s Eric Maroney interviews labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about her new book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. What follows is a transcript of that interview, lightly edited for clarity. Eric Maroney: I am sitting with Sarah Jaffe, to speak about her gorgeous new book From the Ashes: Grief and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grief-mourning-and-solidarity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/family-planning/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/family-planning/#respond Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272858 Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Careby M.E. O’BrienPluto Press, 2023, 304 pp. Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Bold Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Lifeby Kristen R. GhodseeSimon & Schuster, 2023, 352 pp. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberationby Sophie LewisVerso, 2022, 128 pp. They Call It Love: [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/family-planning/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-32-hour-workweek-is-ours-for-the-taking/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-32-hour-workweek-is-ours-for-the-taking/#respond Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264546 The United Auto Workers won many of their demands in their groundbreaking, six-week strike in 2023, but one of them — despite not making it into their new contracts with the Big Three automakers — has the potential to radically shift organized labor’s priorities and unify an often fractious movement in ways not seen in decades.  The demand is for a 32-hour [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-32-hour-workweek-is-ours-for-the-taking/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-most-important-labor-story-right-now-is-in-minnesota-it-might-be-the-model-we-all-need/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-most-important-labor-story-right-now-is-in-minnesota-it-might-be-the-model-we-all-need/#respond Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:04:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263062 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 Cities’ most recognizable stores. A group of building security workers, also members of Villanueva’s union SEIU Local 26, were also in negotiations in the same building. The workers bumped into one another in the hallways as the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-most-important-labor-story-right-now-is-in-minnesota-it-might-be-the-model-we-all-need/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hard-head-and-wild-heart-of-barbara-ehrenreich/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hard-head-and-wild-heart-of-barbara-ehrenreich/#respond Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:42:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1240930 I began to reread Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed (2001) after a particularly intense restaurant-work stress dream I had in October 2022. The book is widely considered Ehrenreich’s masterpiece, and it certainly did not help with my nearly 20-year-old service-work flashbacks. 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