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
Henry Heller & Radhika Desai on the UMFA strike settlement at U of Manitoba
By Henry Heller, Radhika Desai As one of us wrote in these pages a few weeks ago, the recent University of Manitoba Facul
Call for Submissions: The Journal of Labor and Society (Formerly Working USA)
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The U.S. Working Class Has a Radical History
Sharon Smith, Haymarket Books author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United State
EPI: Union decline lowers wages of nonunion US workers
Executive summary: Pay for private-sector workers has barely budged over the past three and a half decades. In fact, fo
Radhika Desai on University of Manitoba Strike
By Radhika Desai, As I walk the picket lines with my colleagues, still strongly supporting the strike in its second week
New Book, Edited by Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, & John W. McKerley: Civic Labors – Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies
From UI Press: Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and
Save the UMass Amherst Labor Center: Sign the Petition!
In the past year, UMass administrators have eliminated all funding for graduate students (including teaching and res
New Book by Raju J. Das: Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World
From Brill, Marxist Theory of Class for a Skeptical World is a critique of some of the influential radical theories of cl
Faculty Are Locked Out at LIU Brooklyn
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UMass-Amherst preparing to abolish Labor Center
From Michael D. Yates: This letter is from Eve Weinbaum, Director of the Labor Center at UMass-Amherst. She writes abou
Graduate Students Clear Hurdle to Form Unions
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TANF didn’t fight poverty, full employment did
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In Historic NLRB Ruling, Temps Win the Right To Join Unions
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Macy’s Advertisement for Scabs
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Donald Trump and Micro- vs. Macro-Economics
By Paddy Quick Donald Trump’s claim to be able to address the economic concerns of the people of the US rests on his suppos
EPI Report: Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county
By Estelle Sommeiller, Mark Price, and Ellis Wazeter Income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s and in m
Lawrence Mishel on Raising America’s Pay
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Overworked America: The economic causes and consequences of long work hours
by Heather Boushey & Bridget Ansel Hard work is part and parcel of the American Dream, but at a certain point, workin
Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference
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