If you were born in the early 1980s through the mid 1990s, you came of age during Obama, the financial crisis of 2008, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, DACA, and the political upheavals of Trump and Sanders. What might those experiences imply for the labor movement in the U.S.?
Ruth Milkman's new book is Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat, discussed as part of a CUNY panel 'Rethinking immigration' (May 1, 2020; Milkman starts around 25:00). Earlier work includes On Gender, Labor, and Inequality and studies of Millennial activists summarized here (both 2016).
Daphna Thier of DSA's National Political Education Committee, and Austin Hayes from Olympia DSA, discuss the how and why of political education in the...
To date there have been more than 200 documented strikes, walkouts and other types of labor protest in the U.S. by essential workers in...
What are unions in the U.S. doing in response to the pandemic, and is it enough? What is the right balance for the left...