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Many feminists urge a transition toward a dual-earner/dual-carer system in which women and men alike earn money and provide unpaid care for their families and communities. But is this possible in the current economic system?

Sure, Alien is about an alien. But, on a deeper level, it's the story about the horrors of a cartoonishly evil company with unchecked power. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation is an extreme form of what's known in economics as a monopsony.

Since the pandemic, Americans’ hardship withdrawals from their 401(k) funds have soared. It’s a stopgap for many people who are struggling, but also points to a dysfunctioning pension system.

Trump’s appointee as the Board’s general counsel stops an NLRB trial likely to find the company guilty.

What Chavez did to young women has a lot to do with the power of men, and the system of male supremacy embedded in our labor movement and society. We have to confront this directly, and not assume that being able to vote for leaders will care of it.

The scandal-ridden secretary is the latest member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet to exit.

Everybody within the organization owed their job to Cesar. He appointed everybody, he could discharge anybody at his will, which he often did. That wasn’t just theoretical power; periodic purges pulsed through the organization.

We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.

Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.

Organized and unorganized working people face the growing many-headed threat of Trump and Trumpism. But what are the top AFL-CIO labor “leaders” doing? Beyond public pronouncements, defensive lawsuits, and social media offerings, very little.