Jobs

What Will It Take to Achieve Workplace Equality?

What Will It Take to Achieve Workplace Equality? What Will It Take to Achieve Workplace Equality?

A new history examines the gains won by women in white-collar work. But without mass action and solidarity, women’s economic equality will continue to be transitory and fragile.

Mar 22, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Bryce Covert

Covid University Students

A Lesson in Solidarity A Lesson in Solidarity

Tenure gives more protection on campus. Can faculty use it help their students?

Mar 18, 2022 / StudentNation / Sunny Yan

We Can Thank the Wobblies for the Biggest Labor Story of the Year

We Can Thank the Wobblies for the Biggest Labor Story of the Year We Can Thank the Wobblies for the Biggest Labor Story of the Year

The radical tactics of the IWW are better suited to the bleak US jobs landscape than those of mainstream trade unions.

Mar 17, 2022 / Malcolm Harris

Two violinists play music in the street as young families listen

Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry

Yet most working musicians have been marginalized or excluded from current Covid relief funding.

Mar 10, 2022 / Marc Ribot

Minnesota teachers strike

Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good

With public schools in limbo nationwide, the stakes couldn't be higher.

Mar 8, 2022 / Eric Blanc

locked baseball stadium gate

Listen to Bernie Sanders and End the Bosses’ Baseball Lockout Listen to Bernie Sanders and End the Bosses’ Baseball Lockout

This is not a strike. The corporate greed needs to stop.

Mar 4, 2022 / Dave Zirin

Volunteer Food Bank

The Price of Unpaid Activism The Price of Unpaid Activism

Have advocacy and organizing become careers for the well-educated?

Mar 4, 2022 / StudentNation / Esther Eriksson von allmen

A man walks past a shop window with the REI logo on it,

Talking Union at Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) Talking Union at Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)

The outdoors equipment company says it believes “in putting purpose before profits.” So why is the CEO trying to keep employees from joining a union?

Feb 28, 2022 / Dave Leshtz

Boston Reds Players League

Lockouts, Strikeouts, and Baseball’s Missed Opportunity Lockouts, Strikeouts, and Baseball’s Missed Opportunity

Learning from the 1890 Players League.

Feb 25, 2022 / Robert Ross

Why Teachers Are Dropping Out

Why Teachers Are Dropping Out Why Teachers Are Dropping Out

Covid and the culture wars have turned an exodus of teachers into an emergency.

Feb 21, 2022 / Feature / Jennifer C. Berkshire

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