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This new book is a history of the struggle over trade policy, and the impact of trade policy on U.S. society, from 1974 to the present.

If only Emancipation actually had a memorable message. Despite a committed cast and stunning cinematography, the film’s script is too blunt and the direction too ham-fisted to make it anything more than another rote entry in the slavery-movie genre.

As more strikes succeed, Kate Bahn, chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, says workers are more likely to organize them at their own workplaces.

A federal program of subsidized employment would empower workers, strengthen communities, and move us toward a more equitable economy for everyone.

“Honey Cake and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” was organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. More than one survivor remembers sustaining fellow-prisoners with vivid descriptions of the foods they’d eaten in their earlier lives.

Workers at Peet’s Coffee & Tea in California have announced that they’re filing for a union election. They’re not just inspired by their peers at Starbucks — they’ve been organizing with and learning directly from them.

The 8-episode first season of Kindred forms an uneven, haunting adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic.

New Zealand’s experiences highlight that sectoral bargaining — in conjunction with worksite bargaining — is necessary to improve working conditions in today’s economy and thus should be part of policy efforts to strengthen unions.

Violence in North Carolina could not stop the drag show, as poet A.E. Hines depicts the resistance.

The strike exemplified a problem in hospitals across the nation, where cost-cutting had resulted in staffs stretched well beyond recommended safe staffing ratios even before emergency conditions began.