Speaking at the 2014 Labor Notes Conference in Chicago, Karen Lewis drove home the importance of building a militant, bottom-up labor movement. The speech is characteristically funny, engaging, and powerful. Watch it here. Photo: Jim West/jimwestphoto.com
Karen Lewis, the Chicago Teachers Union president who led the landmark 2012 strike, died February 7. Her generosity, charisma, and indomitable strength of purpose were gifts to labor organizers across the country who watched, learned, listened, and stepped up themselves.
She inspired a whole host of educators who had been looking for a way forward in the midst of orchestrated attacks on public schools and educators. Around the country teachers were facing weaponized high-stakes testing, defunding, charter schools, and privatization.
Labor Notes is excited to bring on two wonderful new staff organizers,
Sarah Hughes and
Luis Feliz Leon, at our New York office in February. Sarah and Luis are joining our training and events team, and they’ll also write for
Labor Notes. And
Zach Rioux, who has been temping with us for a year, is now permanent as a part-time administrative worker in our Detroit office.
Sarah is an experienced organizer and trainer with a passion for labor education. She has worked for the National Education Association (NEA), the Professional Staff Congress at the City University of New York, and university labor studies programs. She has also taught a variety of workshops to city workers, electricians, women workers, and others. She holds a masters in labor studies.
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World working class
Sunday 31 January 2021, by Kim Moody
The working class of the twenty-first century is a class in formation, as one would expect in a world where capitalism has only recently become universal. At the same time, Marx himself reminded us long ago, in speaking of the development of classes in England where they were “most classically developed,” that “even here, though, this class articulation does not emerge in pure form.” [1]
The working class, of course, is much broader than those who are employed at any one time. Relying only on workforce figures obscures important aspects of the broader working-class life, including its reproduction. Nevertheless, those in and out of employment form the core of the working class, once seen as a male domain but today nearly half composed of women. Furthermore, both space and research limitations dictate that this article will focus on the employed and near-employed sections of this global class. With these caveats in