"The difficult reality is that workers fighting for decency and democracy on the job don’t just have to stand up to companies."

"Throughout his campaign, Johnson made fighting inequality across the city a central theme, prioritizing working-class communities while taxing Chicago’s wealthy."

"The Iowa child-labor bill, approved by committee in early February, would permit children to work in industrial freezers and on assembly lines, and would shield employers from liability if they are injured or killed at work."

"In order to revive workplace democracy, we need to understand why strike mobilization is a much harder task than it used to be — that is, what disincentivizes workers from supporting industrial action."

"Strikes have not been confined to a small number of industries. Disputes have grown to encompass increasingly large swathes of the public and private sector and have ranged from local to national disputes."

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