The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below.
The 2016 election season has simmered with the sense that there is something intrinsically wrong with our political economy. Despite indicators of post-Great Recession recovery, the 99 percent remains strangled by low and flat-lined wages, increasingly precarious work, mountains of personal debt, and political disenfranchisement.
The resulting anger and distress, of course, can lead to constructive possibilities or to dangerous outcomes. The current issue of New Labor Forum (NLF) gazes at this fork in the road toward both the transformational potential of the present moment, as well as at its plausible jeopardy. Here, we offer you a glimpse of some of the necessary reading contained in the September issue, just off the press now.
Contents:
- Organizing in a Brave New World By Stephen Lerner and Saqib Bhatti
- Europe on the Precipice: The Crisis of the Neoliberal Order and the Ascent of Right-Wing Populism By Walter Baier
- Debate:
Greed-Washing the On-Demand Economy: The National Domestic Workers Association’s “Good Work Code” By Jay Youngdahl
Response: New Business Models Demand New Forms of Worker Organizing By Ai-jen Poo and Palak Shah - Book Review Essay: Visions of Utopia by Tim Barker
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune By Kristin Ross
The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left’s Founding Manifesto Edited By Richard Flacks and Nelson Lichtenstein
The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement By Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky - Poem: The Family Solid By Gary Jackson
