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John Deranamie is a 50-year-old Liberian man whose dream led him to a meatpacking plant in South Dakota. He contracted COVID-19 as part of his job.

Frontline workers in the service sector remain forgotten and treated as disposable. "No matter how much we flatten the curve these workers are most at risk.“

Adam Hochschild here produces a rich biography of the World War One-era socialist insurgent, Russian Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor Stokes, an impoverished cigar worker who counterintuitively married well and never forsook her working class roots.

Jericho Brown is the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry for his collection, The Tradition. Here is a review of that volume.

University of California graduate and union workers held strikes and panels Friday for International Workers’ Day to demand increased wages to match rising living costs.

'The Assistant': Julia Garner excels as a junior assistant to a predatory media mogul boss in Kitty Green’s powerfully understated #MeToo drama.

The Culinary Union and its parent organization UNITE HERE want every one of the 60,000 workers in Nevada tested for coronavirus before going back to work. 

A variety of experts explain why getting food to those who need it is a challenge and what is being done about it.

After working together on the Sanders campaign, the United Electrical Workers union and the Democratic Socialists of America have launched the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, channeling insurgent energy into new fights for social justice.

Lovecraft Country foregrounds a group of savvy genre-fiction fans who also happen to be black, and allows them to grapple with Lovecraft’s racism as an allegory for American racism itself. But it also doesn’t stint on scenes of actual racism