Tag: Labor
Marching to a Different Drummer
Susan Ferguson explains how an analytic focus on time and temporalities might help us better understand how capitalism concretely conditions the work of life-making.
“We Won!”: University Professors Strike in Québec City
This February, thirteen-hundred faculty members walked off the job at Québec City’s Université Laval for nearly five weeks, winning a number of concessions from the university including pay raises and improvements to faculty workloads. Rhiannon Maton interviews Nat Nesvaderani about life on the picket line and the lessons learned for future struggles.
The Political Social Ontology of Astrology
Astrology has regained prominence as a resistance practice that challenges capitalist modernity. Matthew Cull and Nadia Mehdi ask: How might forms of thought inherent to astrological practice render us more, rather than less, susceptible to capitalist control?
Notes on America’s Railroads
Guy Miller explains the roots of Congressional strikebreaking in the railroad industry.
Tories Collapse Amidst a Growing Strike Wave
Raymond Morell writes about the latest wave of strikes across the United Kingdom, the failures of Tory austerity, and challenges facing the new movement.
Mexico’s Ejido Experiment
Richard Velázquez Perales shows that, while Mexico’s ejidos offer more liberated relations of productionm, they cannot resolve rural inequalities on their own.
Farah’s Fifty Years Later
Fifty years ago, thousands of garment workers along the US–Mexico border launched a two-year strike and boycott at Farah Manufacturing. Gabriel Solis draws lessons from their struggle for social movements on the border today.
Working Alone
Douglas Young asks how a twenty-first century labor movement can develop the bonds required for robust anticapitalist organization in the face of reduced socialization while working?
Payback Time
Kim Moody argues that the current economic conjuncture is among the most favorable for workers in decades. But might we see the organized militancy required to bring about better working conditions, wages, and contracts?
Coming Home from the Mines
Robert Ovetz reflects on the centenary of the Kansas wildcat coal strikes, considering the role of the Amazon Army and reflecting on lessons to be drawn from this labor history.