Kim Moody, Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870–1900. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019.
Kim Moody has written another very interesting and provocative book on labor. His other books have generally been about contemporary labor (...)
In a moment of profound political and economic and planetary crisis, the socialist movement in the United States faces opportunities and dangers of enormous proportions. Owing more to the depth of the failures of capitalism than to the demonstrated strength of the socialist movement (thus far), (...)
The GM workers out on strike have been hit with concessions for years. They need more than a decent contract — they need a transformational agreement that puts workers’ rights before GM’s profits.
On the picket lines at the Detroit-Hamtramck General Motors plant, people drop by to bring (...)
The UAW strike against General Motors is heating up on the picket lines as the stand-off enters its second week. The first week saw union members arrested, presidential candidates march on the lines, and rumors floated that the strike could extend beyond a tentative agreement through the (...)
Nearly 50,000 UAW members are on strike for the third day. For years, they’ve been hit with plant closings, pay cuts, and two-tier contracts — and they aren’t ready to make concessions.
The ongoing United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against General Motors (GM) — now in its third day — will be (...)
It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the “unemployables” have been deliberately shut out of the labor force due to a capitalist economy that so far has (...)
Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics By Eric Blanc Verso, 2019, 224 pages, $19.95 paper.
THE TEACHER STRIKES that swept through “Red States” in early 2018 demonstrated how suddenly powerful upsurges can arise within the working class. The fire was lit in West (...)
The modern concept of disability—indeed, the conception of disability itself, as there was no identical concept before modern times—is a by-product of capitalism. Capitalism spawns disability both as the primary producer of impairment (through industrial workplace accidents, the physical and (...)
Unions are schools of workers’ struggle — that’s why socialists talk so much about them. But they’re also contradictory institutions that often become complacent and bureaucratic. That’s why the rank-and-file strategy is so important.
It is a very positive development to see the idea of (...)
There are four important things to know about strikes in the public sector: strikes must be central to public-sector union strategy, workers need to be willing to strike even if it means breaking labor law, building community support is crucial, and strikes can defeat the Right’s privatization (...)
Workers terminated by the aircraft maker in South Carolina see their dismissals as part of efforts to stifle a nascent union.
Richard Mester worked for Boeing in South Carolina as a flight safety inspector for five years before being suddenly fired – along with two other employees – in November (...)
2018 might have been the year that convinced workers that the strike holds the power needed to move today’s corporate giants and austerity-obsessed governments.
We might not exactly be able to define the series of strikes in 2018 and early 2019 as a “strike wave.” But the past year, the strike (...)
Labor Notes is one of the most successful socialist projects in the labor movement in US history. It has trained and connected tens of thousands of union militants throughout the world.
In the entire course of North American labor history, Labor Notes, now celebrating forty years of existence, (...)
LAST DECEMBER 4th educators at the Acero charter chain in Chicago became the first charter teachers in the country to go on strike. This was both stunning to the charter industry, which was created in part to avoid the inconvenience of unionized educators, and revelatory to educators across the (...)
After six days of striking and mass mobilizations in the streets, Los Angeles teachers, joined on the picket lines and demonstrations by parents and students, won an important victory: holding the line against further privatization of the public schools.
The New York Times ran a front page (...)
Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they’ll have to organize.
The federal government shut down on December 22, locking out almost 400,000 workers and forcing another 400,000 deemed (...)
The USA has seen rapid growth of socialist organisation in the wake of Bernie Sanders’s campaign and a wave of education strikes. Ian Allinson reports from a debate at the Historical Materialism Conference (London, 8–11 November 2019) about strategy for the US labour movement, with useful lessons (...)
Campaign to increase the minimum wage has boosted its efforts ahead of elections, targeting low-income communities of color
When Zach Wiita’s mother suffered a stroke and became disabled in 2012, he got a second job at a local movie theater to help cover her living costs. He lives outside of (...)
Workers walked out of McDonald’s restaurants to protest sexual harassment.
McDonald’s workers protest sexual harassment at the fast-food chain’s restaurants outside of the company’s headquarters on September 18, 2018, in Chicago. Scott Olson/Getty Images
McDonald’s workers in several states are (...)
America doesn’t have a jobs crisis. It has a ‘good jobs’ crisis – where too much employment is insecure, and poorly paid
The official rate of unemployment in America has plunged to a remarkably low 3.8%. The Federal Reserve forecasts that the unemployment rate will reach 3.5% by the end of the (...)
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