Consider these but you won’t
June 1, 2017
Consider the child with curly brownhair sleeping with her dog in the backof an old SUV while her parents dozein scruffy front seats tilted back. Consider the child with brown… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Labor
What Happened at CCSF?
June 1, 2017
Dear Editors, We were disappointed by Rick Baum’s attack on our union local, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) 2121, in the April 2017 issue of Monthly Review (“A Teachers Union… READ MORE
Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism
May 1, 2017
Martin Empson is the author of Land and Labour (Bookmarks, 2014). Capitalism has, to put it mildly, a peculiar relationship with the natural world.1 Karl Marx perhaps summarized it best… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2017
April 1, 2017
Much has been made of the support of white workers, including union members, for Donald Trump. But while Kim Moody (“Who Put Trump in the White House?“) and others have… READ MORE
A Teachers Union Against Itself: Organized Labor and the Crisis at City College of San Francisco
April 1, 2017
Rick Baum has taught political science at City College of San Francisco since 1997. A member of American Federation of Teachers Local 2121, he has been active in efforts to… READ MORE
Astronauts at Work: The Social Relations of Space Travel
March 1, 2017
Peter Dickens is a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge, and the author of Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves (Polity, 2004). As societies interact with… READ MORE
Steelworkers in Struggle
March 1, 2017
Julia Smith is a postdoctoral fellow in history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Ahmed White, The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in… READ MORE
In the boredroom
September 1, 2016
Do they yawn, these masters�of our fate and wallets�as they cast their weighted�dice together, as they weigh�our lives and find them�negligible as we do when�we swat a fly? � Do… READ MORE
Organizing for Better Lives
May 1, 2016
Daniel M. Berman is a longtime activist for occupational safety and workers’ rights. His books include Death on the Job and Who Owns the Sun? Todd Jailer, Miriam Lara-Meloy, and… READ MORE