In The Great Escape, Saket Soni recounts how he organized a group of Indian migrant workers to free themselves from a human trafficking scam and hold their captors accountable.
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Belabored: Reviving the Strike in Britain, with Morag Livingstone and Joe Rollin
The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?
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Belabored: Los Angeles, 1992, Revisited with Tobias Higbie and Kent Wong
On working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the city's labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.
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Belabored: How to Bargain for Power, with Jane McAlevey
The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.
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Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson
Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.
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