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Organizing Logistics Chokepoints: Hitting Them Where It Hurts In the popular imaginary, Ford’s River Rouge complex has come to represent an industrial age long gone. Completed in 1928, the Rouge complex c […]

The Four-Day Workweek: Possibility or Pipedream? Credit: Ris and Ry, Unsplash In 2018, a New Zealand-based entrepreneur named Andrew Barnes began an eight-week experiment at his finance […]

Corporate Democracy and the Role of Worker Co-Governance Democratizing the Corporation: The Bicameral Firm and Beyond Edited by Isabelle Ferreras, Tom Malleson, and Joel Rogers At a moment when […]

Planned Parenthood: Bargaining after DobbsEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed two workers at Planned Parentho […]

Essential Workers: Bearing the Brunt of Climate Change Caption: Construction workers have to deal with extreme heat, the leading cause of climate-related fatalities. Credit: Mikael Blomkvist, […]

Volume 33, Issue 3, Fall 2024 Contents Labor and the Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge  By Jason Re […]

Lessons from a Landmark Campaign: An Interview with Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors Caption: Justice for Janitors March, July 10, 2010. Credit: SEIU local 1 Stephen Lerner joined SEIU in the mid-1980s and immediately took […]

Central American Democracy in Crisis Left photo: Nayib Bukele during the 2019 presidential elections in El Salvador, February 3, 2019. Credit: Presidential House, El Salvador Right […]

The United Auto Workers’ Southern Offensive “Organize the South!” has long been a progressive imperative, from the interracial Union Leagues that sought to defend Reconstruction-era rad […]

A New Route for Auto Workers: An Interview with the UAW’s Jonah FurmanThings tend to move slowly in the American labor movement—big ships don’t change course quickly. An exception has been in the United Auto Wor […]

How the U.S. Labor Movement Is Confronting AIWhen Boston University graduate students went on strike in April, Stan Sclaroff, the university’s dean of arts and sciences, sent faculty an e […]

Labor Day, EWOC, Bidenomics and more NLF Highlights for Labor Day 2024 This Labor Day, it’s worth asking a simple question: does the labor movement need new methods and o […]

Queer Working-Class Politics and U.S. Labor NLF Highlights for June 2024 In the twenty-first century, many of the most promising American union upsurges, such as the Starbucks Workers […]

Worker-to-Worker Organizing Goes Viral NLF Highlights for May 2024   At a moment of dark news across the globe, the American labor movement has recently been, in a refreshing […]

The Child Care Facilitated Enrollment Project for Working Families NLF Highlights for April 2024 In the long list of expenses crushing American workers, childcare is one of the heaviest. According to the […]

Can labor transform the South? NLF Highlights for January 2024 The 2022 unionization campaign at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, is one of several high-profile o […]

The Dark Doldrums: Has Germany’s Energy Transition Reached a Dead End?In recent years, the term dunkelflaute (“dark doldrums”) has entered the political discourse in Germany. It refers to a period of consecutive day […]

Contesting the Idea of Progress: Labor’s AI Challenge Credit for cover and Resnikoff: From Pixabay. Pete Linforth created this image using AI. The material changes ushered in under the aegis of […]

Union and Community at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed two workers at the Phi […]

Volume 33, Issue 2, Spring 2024 Contents Crisis at the Border: Two Views Today’s Immigration Crisis: A Broken Asylum System  An Interview with Muzaffar Chishti By Kitty We […]