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 […]

Bidenomics: A Giant Step Forward for Workers Credit: ABCDStock Caption: Construction workers laying new asphalt to repair the road. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided […]

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee: A New Model for Worker-Led Organizing Tens of millions of workers in the United States  want a union at their workplace, but do not have one.[1] This unfortunate state of affairs is […]

Remembering Master Union Organizer and Strategist Jane McAlevey Review of Rules To Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations by Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor (Oxford University Press, 2023) Jane […]

Platform Kitchens and the Remaking of Food Service Caption: A three-hundred-square foot delivery kitchen within a thirty-minute delivery range of three high-income residential neighborhoods in New […]

Queer Working-Class Politics and the U.S. Labor Movement Caption: Starbucks workers and organizers from Philadelphia and other cities plus other Philly workers rallied at City Hall. Credit: Joe Piette, […]

The Current Migrant Crisis: How U.S. Policy Toward Latin America Has Fueled Historic Numbers of Asylum Seekers Editor’s Note The report that follows was issued on October 20, 2023, by the Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago. It is p […]

Today’s Immigration Crisis: A Broken Asylum System An Interview with Muzaffar ChishtiIn 2023, a record-breaking year for immigration, the number of asylum seekers crossing the border nearly doubled from the previous year. Right now, […]

Worker-to-Worker Organizing Goes ViralYoung, radicalized, digitally coordinated workers have initiated and driven forward many of the highest profile strikes and union drives of recent […]

Volume 33, Issue 1, Winter 2024 Contents The Fight for the Working-Class Voter: The Death of Deliverism: Why Policy Alone Is Not Enough By Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, […]

The Fad Is Dead: Why “Just Energy Transition Partnerships” Are FailingVolume 33, Issue 2, Spring 2024 In the complicated world of “climate finance,” the Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) have been pre […]

A Bridge to Somewhere? Progressive Democrats’ “Climate Ambition” Must Confront Energy RealitiesVolume 27, Issue 1, Winter 2018 When a group of hurricanes got together in the late summer 2017, a crazy thing happened. Climate change […]

When Stopping Coal Plant Closures Makes Environmental SenseVolume 26, Issue 3, Fall 2017 After more than a decade of tenacious union lobbying of government negotiators, the words “a just transition o […]

Why Clinton’s Embrace of the U.S. as an Energy Superpower Should Matter to Those Seeking to Reform the Democratic PartyVolume 26, Issue 2, Spring 2017 Following the election of President Trump, several labor commentators urged the labor movement to take some […]

Corporations Call for “Net Zero” Emissions: Do They Know How to Get There?Volume 25, Issue 3, Fall 2016 In the months leading to the December 2015 Paris Climate Conference representatives of global institutional […]

Puerto Rico’s Energy Future: Keeping Power with the PeopleVolume 27, Issue 2, Spring 2018 Puerto Rico is now at the center of the global debate about climate resiliency, the potential of renewable […]

Contested Futures: Labor after Keystone XLVolume 25, Issue 2, Spring 2016 The extraordinary story of the political battle over the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline that began in the summer […]