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Against the Algorithm and the Agent: Freelance Musicians Are Constructing Their Own Economic Architecture
Economic Democracy

Against the Algorithm and the Agent: Freelance Musicians Are Constructing Their Own Economic Architecture

Session players, touring artists, and venue workers occupy one of the most atomized corners of the American gig economy—dispersed across cities, projects, and platforms, with no common employer and few formal protections. Yet a growing network of peer-to-peer solidarity structures, musician-controlled booking cooperatives, and collective refusal campaigns is beginning to change the terms on which the music industry extracts value from creative labor. This is what worker power looks like when the
Fulfillment Center, Unfulfilled Promise: How Amazon's Logistics Workers Are Turning the Supply Chain Into a Lever
Direct Action

Fulfillment Center, Unfulfilled Promise: How Amazon's Logistics Workers Are Turning the Supply Chain Into a Lever

Amazon built the most sophisticated logistics infrastructure in commercial history—and in doing so, handed its workers an extraordinary instrument of economic pressure. Warehouse and delivery employees across the country are learning precisely how to use it. The results are reshaping what corporate power looks like in the age of next-day delivery.
Contingent No More: Adjunct Faculty Are Constructing Parallel Power Structures Inside the American University
Economic Democracy

Contingent No More: Adjunct Faculty Are Constructing Parallel Power Structures Inside the American University

The American university runs on adjunct labor — underpaid, contingent, and deliberately excluded from the governance structures that shape academic life. Now, contingent faculty across the country are building decentralized organizing networks that operate beneath and beside formal institutional channels, asserting collective authority over curriculum and working conditions in ways that formal unionization alone has failed to deliver.
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Behind the Counter and Beyond the Franchise: Fast-Food Workers Forge Their Own Accountability Networks

Across the country, fast-food workers are bypassing corporate HR systems and building horizontal solidarity structures that expose wage theft and demand a share of the profits their labor generates. These networks are confronting the franchise model's deliberate legal architecture — one engineered to diffuse corporate responsibility while concentrating corporate wealth.
Economic Democracy

Chalk and Governance: The Educator-Led Movement to Democratize the American Classroom

A growing cohort of American educators is moving beyond contract disputes over wages and benefits to demand something more fundamental: genuine democratic control over the institutions where they work. From rank-and-file contract campaigns to teacher-run alternative schools, the push for worker governance in education is reshaping what it means to be a union educator.
Direct Action

Routing Around the Algorithm: Gig Workers Are Building Their Own Economy From the Curb Up

Across American cities, delivery workers and rideshare drivers are refusing to wait for labor law to catch up with the platform economy. Through mutual aid networks, worker-owned cooperatives, and coordinated work stoppages, they are constructing an alternative to algorithmic management—one route at a time.
Economic Democracy

Healing the Healers: Healthcare Workers Are Reimagining Their Industry From the Floor Up

Across the United States, nurses, technicians, and support staff are not merely negotiating for better wages — they are mounting a sustained challenge to the corporate model of healthcare delivery itself. Drawing on principles of worker control and industrial solidarity, a new generation of healthcare organizers is arguing that the dysfunction plaguing American medicine is inseparable from the question of who governs it. Their movement carries the unmistakable imprint of syndicalist thinking, ev
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Chokehold on Capital: How Longshoremen Turned the Supply Chain Into a Bargaining Weapon

The International Longshoremen's Association's recent contract victories did not emerge from goodwill at the negotiating table — they were won through the deliberate, strategic exercise of collective power at the most vulnerable nodes of global commerce. As port workers demonstrate what it means to occupy a position of genuine industrial leverage, their playbook offers urgent lessons for a labor movement hungry for models that actually work. This is what militant unionism looks like when it is e
Reclaiming the Heartland: Worker Cooperatives Are Quietly Rebuilding Post-Industrial Communities Across Rural America
Economic Democracy

Reclaiming the Heartland: Worker Cooperatives Are Quietly Rebuilding Post-Industrial Communities Across Rural America

Across the hollowed-out manufacturing towns and agricultural communities of the Midwest and South, a quiet revolution in economic ownership is underway. Worker-owned cooperatives and syndicalist-aligned enterprises are not merely filling the voids left by corporate disinvestment—they are demonstrating, in practical terms, that democratic ownership produces more durable and equitable outcomes than the extractive models that preceded them.
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Occupy the Server Room: How Tech Workers Are Weaponizing the Sit-Down Strike Against Silicon Valley's Union Busters

From warehouse floors in Bessemer to open-plan offices in Seattle, a new generation of tech workers is reaching back to the 1930s playbook and finding that workplace occupation remains one of labor's most potent weapons. The sit-down strike, once thought a relic of the industrial era, is being reimagined for the digital economy—and corporate America is not prepared for it.