New Book: Gender and Time Use in a Global Context – The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor
From Palgrave. Edited by Rachel Connelly & Ebru Kongar, This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the
New Book: Unions and the City – Negotiating Urban Change
Edited by Ian Thomas MacDonald. From ILR Press: Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in ma
Call For Papers: The Poverty of Academia – Exploring the Realities of Working Class Academics
The Journal of Working-Class Studies Special Issue, December 2017: The Poverty of Academia: Exploring the (Intersec
May Day: A History
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Bill Lazonick on The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnguEjTPDY&w=560&h=315] William Lazonick, professor at U
Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy
By Jayati Ghosh, Twenty-first century imperialism has changed its form. In the 19th century and the first half of the 20
LaborNotes: Building an Army to Fight Runaway Inequality
How can unions help create a social movement to take on Wall Street’s economic and political dominance? That’s t
EPI: Low-wage African American workers have increased annual work hours most since 1979
by Valerie Wilson & Janelle Jones Over the last several decades, black workers have been offering more to the econo
New Book by James Young: Union Power – The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
From Monthly Review Press: If you’re lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there’s about a one-in-ten
New Book: Against Labor – How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
From University of Illinois Press: Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselv
Nancy Folbre & Kristin Smith on The Wages of Care: Bargaining Power, Earnings & Inequality
by Nancy Folbre & Kristin Smith From the abstract: The uneven bargaining power of both firms and workers may be cont
New Book by Bruno Jossa: Labour Managed Firms and Post-Capitalism
From Routledge: The prerequisite for overthrowing capitalism is a system which both leverages selfishness and creat
Call for papers: Academic Labor, Research and Artistry
Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) is a peer-reviewed open access journal launched in 2016 by the Center for
URPE Brooklyn Conference: Left-Wing Economics in a Right-Wing Political Climate
St. Francis College, Brooklyn NY, April 8, 2017 The Conference will bring together the theoretical perspectives of ra
Call For Papers: The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Program Committee seeks paper and session proposals offering
New Journal of Working-Class Studies
The Working-Class Studies Association is pleased to announce The Journal of Working-Class Studies. JWCS is an onlin
Producing Poverty: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Production Jobs in Manufacturing
From Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Much attention has been given in recent years to low-wage work in th
Sam Gindin on Building a Mass Socialist Party
By Sam Gindin We desperately need a mass socialist party. But the dictum “build it and they will come” won’t get us very fa
Call for Submissions: The Journal of Labor and Society (Formerly Working USA)
From March 2017, Working USA (published by Wiley-Blackwell) is changing its name to The Journal of Labor and Society. T