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A Union’s Strength Comes from the Power to Strike
The Indypendent
labor
The Unions Strike Back: Janus, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and the Future of Organized Labor
Brown Political Review
The Commonwealth Network: A Theory And Model For Political Production
The South Lawn
Here are two articles outlining theory and practice of a model around which the Left could organize cooperative enterprises into a more coherent base upon which to build more powerful, more confrontational politics as well as historic iniquities, or how it would be able to defend the gains it makes. That is how a commonwealth network could be formed and expanded.
The Union Household Vote Revisited
On Labor: Workers, Unions and Politics
When Labor Fought for Civil Rights
Dissent
The new labor liberalism, built with the support of proportionally more non-white workers (and women), is more progressive than the old pre–civil rights era labor liberalism. If it achieves its powerful new vision, it will be a more humane, cosmopolitan, and egalitarian movement than its predecessor. But as of now, it is a significantly smaller movement and lacks economic and political leverage in key sectors of the political economy.
Conservative Activist Launches Push for Wisconsin 'Right to Work' Law
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
The governor has also said that he doesn't want a repeat of the large protests that accompanied the passage of Act 10, saying in December 2012 that such a move could create uncertainty and cause employers to hesitate on hiring as he believes businesses did in 2011.
labor
The Most Challenging Issue Facing Liberalism Today
MSNBC
Most liberals continue to pay lip service to unions and their importance to the Democratic coalition. But in private, many will tell you that they have little use for them. Julian Zelizer, a Princeton political economist, argues that the marriage between liberalism and organized labor “took a terrible turn starting in the 1970s,” when global competition moved manufacturing jobs from the unionized Northeast and Midwest to the non-union South and, ultimately, abroad.
Detroit’s Radical
Jacobin
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