New Labor Forum

In its over two decades of publication, articles in the journal have covered the full range of challenges that confront workers and working-class communities.  On the domestic side, these issues have included:

• the dramatic growth of low wage service and precarious work
• the decline of manufacturing
• corporate domination in U.S. politics
• the privatization of public education
• the persistence of black unemployment at double or near double the rate for whites
• mass incarceration
• immigration raids and the super exploitation of immigrant workers
• sexual harassment at work
• pay inequity
• LGBTQ workplace discrimination
• labor’s relationship to the American empire and wars without end
• the climate change crisis.

Internationally, contributors to the journal have examined:

• organized labor and economic justice in post-Apartheid South Africa
• the rise and fall of the pink tide in Latin America
• efforts to organize among informal workers throughout the global south, and
• the rise of economic nationalism throughout Europe.

Article highlights include:

• Lilly Geismer, Napoleons in Pinstripes: The Rise of the Business Mogul as Politician (Fall 2018)
• Chris Lehmann, Marxism and Consumer Culture (Fall 2015)
• Adolph Reed, The Strange Career of the Voting Rights Act: Selma in Fact and Fiction (Spring 2015)
• Frances Fox Piven, The Changing Faces of Poverty and Inequality: How We Once Came to Fight a War on Poverty (Fall 2014)
• Rodolfo O. De La Garza, Neither Walls nor Open Borders: A New Approach to Immigration Reform (Winter 2011)
• Poo, Ai-Jen, A Twenty-First Century Organizing Model: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign (Winter 2011)
• Walden Bello, Reforming Global Capitalism: The Illusion of Change (Fall 2009)
• Jacob Hacker, Health Care for America will Guarantee Coverage for all Americans (Fall 2007)
• Anita Chan, Organizing Wal-Mart in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for China’s Unions (Spring 2007)
• Marshall Berman, Dancing with America: Philip Roth, Writer on the Left (Fall/Winter 2001)
• Sakhela Buhlungu, The Paradox of Victory: South Africa’s Union Movement in Crisis (Spring/Summer 2001)

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Volume 28 Issue 2, Spring 2019

• Beyond Generational Politics: Do Millennials Constitute a Political Category?
• DSA Today: Interviews with Activists in the Democratic Socialists of America
• The Business of Mass Migration: Fear, Exploitation, and the Political Economy of Immigration Restriction
• The Labor Movement Comes to Virtual Reality: Unionizing Digital Media
• The Green New Deal’s Magical Realism