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Sandra Oh’s Netflix series - Instead of fetishizing the literary classroom as a luminous font of inspiration, the series shows us how Ji-Yoon’s strenuous efforts are constantly crushed by structural racism and sexism.

"Millions will suffer as they lose this critical source of income and the loss of spending will suppress job growth."

Labor Day: Former Poet of the United States Robert Pinsky reads his poem “Shirt,” among the great works of poetry about labor.

Millions of jobless workers are set to lose critical unemployment benefits in roughly 72 hours—and neither Congress nor the Biden administration seem prepared to do anything about it.

In the gold-rush era, initial ceremonial greetings soon gave way to bigotry and violence as Chinese immigrants were tarred as a “coolie race” and cast as a threat to free white labor. The two books under review tell the story of how and why.

We upended our lives during the pandemic, but our response to what we know is happening to the planet has remained business-as-usual.

"There have been many books on neoliberalism and financialization," writes reviewer Sharpe, but few others "have traced the history down to the level of individual documents and memos."

Starbucks workers in the Buffalo area announced that they were forming a union called Starbucks Workers United.

Ed Asner's concerns about economic and social justice did not stop with helping performers. He fought for victims of poverty, violence, war, and legal and social injustice, both in the United States and around the globe.

In director and cowriter Nia DaCosta’s new Candyman, the body count mostly includes those who repeat the practices of systemic cruelty and racism that led to his lynching and other hateful deaths.