Two new books about the politics of love stress the importance of intimate relationships as part of organizing for a better world.
Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Leaves Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, and From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and many other publications.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Urge to Surge
Businesses are hiking prices to take advantage of consumers. They learned it from Uber.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Making Paid Sick Time a Reality
Organizing for paid leave, which is on the verge of passing in Minnesota, is part of a larger challenge to reverse an abusive workplace status quo.
Posted inWorking in America
A Four-Day Week at Five Days’ Pay
Workers (and their families) are stressed by the long hours they have to put in. It’s past time to cut those hours.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Tug Life
From Canada to Panama, tugboat workers are being squeezed as shipping companies earn record profits.
Posted inPolitics
Nina Turner Is Reaching Forward and Reaching Back
Democrats may not like it, but they could learn a lot from the Bernie Sanders ally.
Posted inWorking in America
The Fight for $15 Confronts the ‘Labor Shortage’ Narrative
Strikers are walking off the job today, seeking dignity at work at a time when business owners want a reserve army to accept low pay and bad conditions.
Posted inThe Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
Worker Centers: Where Causes Cohere, and Forge Power
At the crossroads of diverse social movements and worker representation, many centers have become models of intersectionality.
Posted inWorking in America
Union Bargaining at a Podcasting Giant
Gimlet Media, part of the Spotify empire, has been negotiating a contract with workers for almost two years.
Posted inWorking in America
Workers Rally Against Trump’s Broken Promises
At shuttered plants across America, workers have been activated to speak the truth about the hollowness of the past four years.