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Peter Martin's The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language shows Noah Webster as the sort of ideologue who's convinced he has a historical mission and carries himself accordingly, writes Scott McLemee.

At its core, a fighting labor movement must take on the boss directly, winning fights both big and small that transform life for workers. This should not be in dispute, and it is why socialists have traditionally salted union and non-union shops.

This new book, says reviewer Rosen, carefully studies the life of the multiracial working class in a U.S. town, and, in the process, "painfully reveals that traditional working-class life is over."

To a steady beat of whistles, car horns and “AB5 and a union!” hundreds of rideshare drivers amassed outside Uber’s corporate headquarters in San Fransisco on Wednesday.

The recent trailer for Bombshell offers the second direct, on-screen depiction of a major #MeToo-era sexual harassment scandal— and it’s the first thata promises to do it well.

Millennials are already in debt and without savings. After the next downturn, they’ll be in even bigger trouble.

Pretty much everyone agrees that eating oatmeal—assuming you’re opting for a type free of sugar and unhealthy additives—is a good idea. But it’s important to differentiate the different types of oatmeal: steel-cut, rolled, quick-cooking, instant.

The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union is one year old. A member-organizer describes the campaign.

In a climate when so many digital media companies are being reorganized by new leadership and moving to unionize, it’s easy to relate Succession's episode to countless mini-crises of the last couple of years.

The group argues some unions have become too disengaged, too timid and lack the organizing power they once wielded on behalf of workers.