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Unions

Antitrust And Labor Movements Return to Their Roots

While modern antitrust reformers are preoccupied with the amount of competition, Progressive-Era activists argued that the quality of competition mattered too. Two new bills harken back to that time.

By Brian Callaci

April 18, 2022, 4:23 pm – 10 MIN READ

Sticking With the Union

The key to labor’s future: thinking beyond its own membership to the entire working class.

By Lindsay Beyerstein

Winter, No. 55 – 15 MIN READ

The Path Back To Equality Leads Through Unions

The Nation summarizes an important new finding: Americans of the mid-twentieth century had unions to thank for their booming, egalitarian economy.

By Nathan Pippenger

June 1, 2018, 1:22 pm – 3 MIN READ

Toward an Institutional Turn on Trade

Spring 2018, No. 48 – 21 MIN READ

Labor’s Janus-Faced Juncture

Janus was the god of turning points and transitions. Now a Supreme Court case that bears this name threatens to mark a watershed for organized labor, and not a good one.

By Joseph A. McCartin

October 24, 2017, 1:58 pm – 9 MIN READ