Labor

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China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions

Empowered workers would be a threat to the Chinese Communist Party.

Sep 22, 2021 / Maya Wang

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Reset Labor Markets With a Local Half-Time Job Guarantee Reset Labor Markets With a Local Half-Time Job Guarantee

The attacks on pandemic income support and the Refundable Child Tax Credit highlight the need for work guarantees.

Sep 21, 2021 / Column / Nathan Newman

Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street

Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street

Policies to address America’s enormous wealth disparities are now on the political map in a way they weren’t before Occupy Wall Street.

Sep 20, 2021 / Feature / Bryce Covert

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Sweatshops Won’t Help the World’s Poor, but Unions Could Sweatshops Won’t Help the World’s Poor, but Unions Could

Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now.

Sep 15, 2021 / James North

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When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens? When Sex Workers Speak, Who Listens?

The initial decision by OnlyFans to ban porn illustrates how ostensibly legal online sex work is, in reality, criminalized.

Sep 6, 2021 / Emily Coombes

The New New Deal?

The New New Deal? The New New Deal?

Bernie Sanders says the Democratic caucus’s budget will be “the most consequential piece of legislation for working people, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor” since...

Sep 6, 2021 / John Nichols

Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Donald Trump

There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party There Is No Greater Threat to Worker Rights Than This Republican Party

Despite what it says, the GOP is the party of capital, not labor.

Sep 3, 2021 / John Nichols

The Staggering Costs of Sexual Harassment

The Staggering Costs of Sexual Harassment The Staggering Costs of Sexual Harassment

Settlements offer a semblance of justice, but they don’t make victims of sexual harassment whole.

Sep 3, 2021 / Bryce Covert

A Federal Job Guarantee: The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement

A Federal Job Guarantee: The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement A Federal Job Guarantee: The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement

The 1963 March on Washington put a government guarantee to a job at the front of the civil rights agenda. It’s long past time to complete the work.

Sep 2, 2021 / Rep. Ayanna Pressley and David Stein

Ed Asner

Ed Asner, American Socialist Ed Asner, American Socialist

The actor, who died Sunday, championed democratic socialism long before Bernie Sanders ran for president.

Aug 31, 2021 / John Nichols

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