With continued attacks on organized labor from the current administration, the labor movement needs to look for innovative strategies for working-class elevation.

Local organizers built a bold multiracial, multigenerational union with grassroots energy and tenacity. But Amazon is too big to beat through site-by-site organizing and striking.

This campaign is working to make Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the first city to put divestment directly on the ballot.

In response to a successful unionization effort at a warehouse in Quebec, Amazon is shuttering its operations in the entire province. Its punitive behavior demonstrates that traditional organizing met...

In response to a successful unionization effort at a warehouse in Quebec, Amazon is shuttering its operations in the entire province. Its punitive behavior demonstrates that traditional organizing met...

Democrats need to dump the consultants and rebuild the party—from the bottom up.

In the case involving medical care for transgender adolescents, ignoring doctors is part of the point.

Ballot initiatives can push policy to the left, rebuild a fighting working-class political base, and prepare movements to govern democratically.

Dani Rodrik thinks the Democrats were right to embrace economic populism, but neglected to update it for this century.

The far right thrived in 2024, and the erosion of liberal democracy is the  story of the century so far. It didn’t have to be this way

In this introductory piece to a special issue of the Forum, we explore the inadequacies of the field of political communication in addressing the rising threats posed by illiberalism and the far ri...

This article examines the erosion of political legitimacy in ex-mining towns in England. Political sociologists and political scientists have long taken an interest in the politics of coalmining area....

When the elite was tiny and manual labor drove the economy, working-class life felt different.

Making Room for Abolition is a body of work that imagines a world without police and prisons by making speculative worlds through the lens of a home.

In February of 2024, the Center for Work and Democracy hosted dozens of scholars, activists, and sociologists on ASU's Tempe campus to discuss the future of worker power and economic democracy in the United States. Thanks to documentarian Kiley Kraskouskas and her amazing team, you can learn more about the conference, its attendees, and the Center for Work and Democracy in this short film.

In this short video from the 2024 CWD Conference on Worker Power and Economic Democracy, CWD Director Michael McQuarrie talks about the Center’s relationship...

Through interviews with farmers, chefs, non-profit managers, teachers, consumers, and healthcare providers, the author uncovers the strengths of the alternative agro-food movement and argues that ...