Posts tagged: labor-movement

From the Front Lines of the Largest Academic Strike in US History: Graduate Students Across the UC System Go On Strike

For two weeks, graduate student workers from across the University of California have been leading the largest academic workers' strike in US history. Striking worker Misha Lerner details the history of the strike and workers' demands in this article.
Jeffrey B. Perry (1946-2022)

The working-class scholar and labor activist Jeffrey B. Perry passed away in September 2022, leaving behind a legacy of radical writing and labor struggle. Sean I. Ahern remembers Perry's life and work in this obituary.
May Day Reading 2022

All books are 40% off in celebration of May Day!
US Labor On Strike: An Interview with Jonah Furman

Jonah Furman talks Striketober, the US labor movement, and the future of neoliberalism in this in-depth interview
Our Theorist of Outrage: Memories of Stanley Aronowitz (1933–2021)

Andrew Anastasi remembers the radical sociologist Stanley Aronowitz
There is power in the movement: Organised labour and the conquest of production

Craig Gent analyses the role of unions and potential for social movements in creating a workers' future without scarcity. Part of the Verso Roundtable on Automation and the Future of Work.

From the Front Lines of the Largest Academic Strike in US History: Graduate Students Across the UC System Go On Strike