The Plight of the U.S. Working Class
January 1, 2014
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at University of… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Labor
The Labor Share Question in China
January 1, 2014
Hao Qi hqi [at] econs.umass.edu is a PhD candidate of the department of economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include Marxian political economy and income distribution. In… READ MORE
European Labor: Political and Ideological Crisis in an Increasingly More Authoritarian European Union
January 1, 2014
Asbjørn Wahl is Adviser to the Norwegian Union of Municipal Employees, Vice Chair of the Road Transport Workers’ Section of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), and Director of the… READ MORE
Labor Divided
December 1, 2013
Timothy Kerswell (timothykerswell [at] umac.mo) is an Assistant Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau. His research interests include labor, migration, imperialism, class structure, and globalization…. READ MORE
Revolutionary Road, Partial Victory: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
September 1, 2013
Paul Le Blanc, professor of history at La Roche College, has been active in various movements for social change since 1965. His books include Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor… READ MORE
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
July 1, 2013
The present-day world can only be described to present-day people if it is described as capable of transformation. —Bertolt Brecht1 The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2013
June 1, 2013
The U.S. working class was slow to respond to the hard times it faced during and after the Great Recession. Finally, however, in February 2011, workers in Wisconsin began the… READ MORE
The Rebirth of the Chicago Teachers Union and Possibilities for a Counter-Hegemonic Education Movement
June 1, 2013
Eric (Rico) Gutstein is a professor in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois-Chicago and is active in the movement against education privatization. He is the author of Reading… READ MORE
Creating a New Model of a Social Union: CORE and the Chicago Teachers Union
June 1, 2013
Robert Bartlett is a high school teacher and was active in the Chicago Teachers Solidarity Campaign preceding and during the strike. � The success of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)… READ MORE
Beating the Neoliberal Blame Game: Teacher and Parent Solidarity and the 2012 Chicago Teachers’ Strike
June 1, 2013
Rhoda Rae Gutierrez is a parent of two Chicago Public School students and a parent-activist with Parents 4 Teachers. She is also currently a graduate student in Educational Policy Studies-Social… READ MORE