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Episode #17 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived! The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining

Join Power At Work LIVE on LinkedIn for Episode #17 of the Power Half-Hour on Tuesday, January 13 at noon ET/9 AM PT with very special guests Alexandra Martinez, writer for Prism; Alex Jacquez, Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative; and David Madland, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Seth Harris hosts the Power Half-Hour.

Episode #13 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived! The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining

Everyday we are inundated with media headlines touting AI’s potential to usher in sweeping changes to the labor market — often predicting full-scale automation and widespread job loss. However, labor has a radically different vision for the future of technology adoption, one that centers workers and communities, embraces common-sense guardrails,

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by David Foster and Lenore Palladino to discuss how workers can build real power at the very top of the corporations that shape our lives.

Over the past three decades, scholars have written extensively about attempts by post-World War II unions to promote social change and greater member engagement at the community level. These efforts, variously described as “social justice unionism,” “social movement unionism,” “civic unionism,” and “civil rights unionism,” envisioned a larger social role

Dear Power At Work Community: Thank you. Thank you for supporting Power At Work and worker power. Thank you for your comments and your clicks. Thank you for persevering through our many trials and errors. Thank you for your involvement in the fight to bring economic justice and fairness to

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Patricia Campos-Medina to explore migration, belonging, worker power, and the everyday people shaping the future of immigrant worker justice.

Two years ago, the United Auto Workers (UAW) seemed poised for a turnaround. After watching its membership rolls dwindle over decades of economic restructuring and ineffective leadership, the union was beginning to win again. A nationwide strike against the Big Three automakers (GM, Ford, and Stellantis) in 2023 broke with

For decades, the share of workers represented by unions has steadily declined in the United States. This trend is often framed as a story about workers’ collective bargaining power slipping away. But scholars like Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss remind us that revitalizing the labor movement is not just about

Episode #16 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived! The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining

Episode #15 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived! The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining

“Quick! Into the boxes!” The words sent 11-year-old Pauline Newman and the other children scrambling for cover inside the large cardboard boxes, already half filled with finished crisp, white shirtwaists. Newman, whose tongue still tripped over English words, clapped her hand over her mouth; she knew she was lucky to

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Matthew Platkin and Randy Korgan to discuss the ongoing fight for Amazon’s employees that is raging in the courts and the workplace. In this episode, Seth discusses with his guests the two lawsuits brought by

Activists in Ithaca, New York are mobilizing for the first city-wide ban on arbitrary firings in the US. Other cities should take note.