After more than three weeks of protest, Wisconsin Republicans finally found a way to push through their draconian labor bill stripping public workers of collective bargaining rights. Governor Scott...
When Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and Barack Obama's most frequent guest at the White House, announced last week that he was stepping down, it sent ripples...
Food politics are sweeping the United States. The local food movement, the slow food movement, all of it embodied in periodic sweeping pieces from lead guru Michael Pollan, whose writing is lush and...
In my recent piece on activism as labor, I briefly touched on the connections between art and street activism, and promised to get back to that soon. I do think that in a discussion of art as labor,...
This is the first in Sarah Jaffe's series, Rethinking Work. See her introduction for more information. When rethinking work and what we consider work, many jobs that come to mind. Yet few are as...
The global economy seems to have climbed down off the ledge where it was perched for the last part of 2008 and beginning of 2009, teetering precariously on the verge of falling. Newspapers trumpet...
I’m writing from Eugene, Oregon, where I have come for my yearly reunion with college friends. Each year we meet to watch a University of Oregon football game, reliving the many games we watched in...
Barack Obama's campaign for the White House got a lot of attention for its savvy Web organizing, its skill at fundraising and even just for the size of its email list—13 million names. The backbone...