Labor

Knowledge Collapse

AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?

  • Michael Harris

How to Hold a City Hostage

Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

  • Stuart Schrader
  • nia t. evans

Dangerous Products and People

Economic nationalism threatens to fuel racism—and violence.

  • Dana Frank

Where Did the Labor Vote Go?

Until unions open the gates, they won’t deliver working-class voters to Democrats.

  • Janice Fine
  • Benjamin Schlesinger

Cooling Tensions in a Warming World

Lessons from the new alliances between labor and climate activism.

  • Erik Loomis

A Worldmaking Plant

Following the agave trade exposes the roots of solidarity across empires.

  • Michelle Ha

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Three Cheers for the Administrative State

New local labor laws aim to end worker exploitation. Can bureaucrats serve that vision?

  • Janice Fine
  • Hana Shepherd

Learning from Movements

Organizing shows how race, disability, and the economy are intertwined.

  • Shirley Lin

The Link to Abolition

Movements of the past are more than simply analogues.

  • Liat Ben-Moshe

More than Modest Proposals

Shifts in language and attitudes are a necessary step.

  • Steven Kapp

Make Neurodiversity Boring

Real change requires public policy.

  • Ari Ne’eman

The Limits of Self-Advocacy

Relying on self-advocacy has led to marked economic and racial disparities.

  • Kristin Bumiller

Who Speaks for Autism?

The movement must reckon with its diversity.

  • Catherine Tan

Toward Neurodivergent Power

Final response: Liberal efforts are vital but insufficient.

  • Robert Chapman

The Future of Neurodiversity

The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.

  • Robert Chapman
with responses from
  • Ari Ne’eman
  • Kristin Bumiller
  • Catherine Tan
  • Shirley Lin
  • Steven Kapp
  • Liat Ben-Moshe

Labor and the Bibi-Modi “Bromance”

India’s recruitment drives to send workers to Israel resemble British indenture.

  • Michelle Buckley
  • Paula Chakravartty

What’s Next for Music Criticism?

Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.

  • Eli Zeger

Can We Imagine a World Without Work?

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

  • Rachel Fraser

A Grassroots Government

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

  • Janice Fine
  • Mark Engler
  • Paul Engler

Why Unions Need More Democracy

In Rules to Win By, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor reject backroom dealmaking. Rank-and-file workers are going even further.

  • Ege Yumuşak

AI and the Specter of Automation

In a just world, productivity-enhancing technology would create more leisure and prosperity for everyone.

Escape from the Market

Basic income proposals threaten the market order—which is why they keep being beaten back, even though some capitalists support them.

  • Simon Torracinta

May Day and the Movement for Shorter Working Hours

International Workers’ Day is an occasion to build solidarity and rethink political economy.

Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare

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

  • Brishen Rogers
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