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About one-half of all higher education teachers and professors are contingent, or adjunct, laborers. This book portrays this crisis, and even though it is a flawed treatment, reviewer Roth finds some things of interest in this study.

Garner scratched-out a living in the gray market. "Not today," he said, when cops came for him. Now he's dead

Joe Biden keeps lying about Medicare for All and won’t stop anytime soon — he has to, to sell his own Bidencare plan. But Medicare for All will always win on the merits.

Throughout American history, attacks on so-called radicals have fit hand-in-glove with racist and anti-immigrant politics.

The proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on July 12th, would enable federal workers to drop union membership—and opt out of paying membership dues—at any point after their first year of membership.

Eugene Scalia has spent his career as a corporate lawyer fighting for the interests of capital, not workers. Now he's in line to run the Labor Department,

Insights into Trumpism With the Gloves Off

Billingham has used his camera to create personal, intensely specific images that double as snapshots of urban poverty and parental neglect. In that respect, Ray & Liz extends, and also interrogates the impulse to transform life into art.

Andy Stern, the former head of SEIU, is using his resume in organized labor to support a group that explicitly aims to undermine teacher’s unions.