New Book: Masculinity, Labour, and Neoliberalism – Working-Class Men in International Perspective
Edited by by Charlie Walker & Steven Robert. From Palgrave: This book explores the ways in which neoliberal capita
New Book: The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
by Ron Ramdin. From Verso: In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black wo
New Book: Radicals in the Barrio – Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class
by Justin Akers Chacón From Haymarket Books: Aground-breaking history of the radical political movements that devel
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
A 21st Century Marxism: The Revolutionary Possibilities of the “New Economy”
By Chris Wright It should hardly be controversial anymore to say we’re embarking on the “end times”
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
White Working-Class Voters and the Future of Progressive Politics
by Michael Zweig Rather than speaking of the working class in terms that reduce it to only categories of race and gender,
CALL FOR PAPERS: Freedom and Justice – Jobs, Economic Security, and Inclusion
The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p
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
Marx on Immigration Workers, Wages, and Legal Status
by David L. Wilson On April 9, 1870, Karl Marx wrote a long letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt, two of his collaborato
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
A Crisis of Care? Nancy Fraser on the social contradictions of contemporary capitalism
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Mike Davis on Trump and the White Working Class
by Mike Davis, History has been hacked. Trump’s “impossible” victories in June and November, together with the stunni
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