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A new book that claims to make the act of cooking fun when it sometimes seems like a chore is an exciting, though daunting, invitation to improvise.

Informal workers around the world lost about 75% of earnings in the first few months of the pandemic, but were largely excluded from relief programs. But they are organizing and even winning some demands.

Vote in Bessemer, Alabama, is chance to inform younger generations about the role unions play, labor leaders say

The fantastic comedy, now streaming in full on Hulu, never lost sight of how corporate America makes life hell for the people who work within it.

A recent survey of restaurant workers confirms what insiders know: that the industry has the highest rate of sexual harassment, and a reliance on tips exacerbates the problem. Eliminating the tipped wage would go a long way to fixing the problem.

The late poet Lee Sharkey illuminates varieties of theft—“The CEO,” “The tyrant,” “the thief of memory.”

United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.

The reviewer highlights some of the noteworthy (and readable) academic press books coming out in the first half of 2021.

The strike was mainly motivated to force the company to act to improve the general working conditions of the subcontractors. But the whole workforce’s conditions are at the core of the struggle.

This newly published collection of newspaper columns enriches our understanding of this singly important revolutionary theorist and activist.