The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.

Remembrances of the late author have focused on her best-selling Nickel and Dimed with only rare acknowledgement of the major roles she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

Dependence is a fact of all our lives; freedom lies in our capacity to care for others.

And what today’s organizers can learn from them.

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Sex workers are labor's vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril.

How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.

Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

Recent works depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.

Intrinsic to what we hate about work is that we can’t imagine life outside of it.

If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

Artist-activist Shellyne Rodriguez speaks with Billie Anania about museum labor practices and how Strike MoMA imagines a future of art for the people.

Two timely new books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade, whose monstrous pursuit of profit has long wreaked havoc on laborers and the seas they sail through.

The pandemic has foregrounded women's exploitation in the home and challenged feminism to once again go beyond middle-class concerns. 

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.

In 1961 Frank Kameny became the first person to ask the Supreme Court to protect the employment rights of homosexuals. The fact that the Court finally has—sixty years later—points to both the successes and agonies of a legalistic approach to activism.