Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.
There is unquestionably a new force undergirding the labor market: a new class consciousness. But leaving neoliberalism behind will require sustained collective action among millions of unorganized workers.
Though architects have long been seen as privileged creative professionals, they are finding themselves in increasingly de-skilled and exploitative work environments. It’s no wonder that they’re starting to unionize.
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Reviewer Foley discusses a new examination of the "professional managerial class." The book's publisher calls this book "an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits."
Striketober may very well be just a viral hashtag, but the growing worker militancy it invokes is unmistakably in the air
The owners of capitalist society would like us to see politics as its own sphere of activity completely separate from the economy.
What does a decolonization movement look like, and how is it informed by both Black and Indigenous traditions of resistance?
French workers' top electoral choice isn't Marine Le Pen, but abstention. To mobilize their support, the Left needs to look beyond the workplace alone - and answer a deeper mood of alienation.
Class struggle still dominates civil society under capitalism. The new terrain explored here, as well as its undoing by working people, lies in capital’s increased capacity to squeeze more work out of every minute of every work day.
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