Jeff Schuhrke
Contributing Writer at In These Times
Author of No Neutrals There (@haymarketbooks, 2025) and Blue-Collar Empire (@VersoBooks, 2024). https://t.co/Uc8v3IQrWI
Articles
-
1 week ago |
jacobin.com | Jeff Schuhrke
Interview by Micah Uetricht The US labor movement was a major force to be reckoned with throughout the twentieth century, playing the key role in establishing the rudiments of a welfare state, eking out a modicum of democracy on shop floors that were previously bosses’ dictatorships, and backing a wide range of other progressive causes like the civil rights movement. There was undoubtedly power in a union. But that power wasn’t always wielded for the working class.
-
2 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Jeff Schuhrke
In many ways, Donald Trump owes his political career to deindustrialization, the late-twentieth-century process in which multinational corporations eliminated millions of unionized manufacturing jobs in the United States by callously abandoning working-class communities in pursuit of quick and easy profits. Trump has won two presidential elections in part by presenting himself to voters as the solution to the still-unresolved social and economic dislocations caused by deindustrialization.
-
1 month ago |
haymarketbooks.org | Jeff Schuhrke |Sharon Smith |Brandon Weber |Toni Gilpin
The definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians. US trade unionists are often told to keep quiet and remain neutral on Palestine because “Palestine has nothing to do with unions” and “weighing in” only distracts from struggles for better working conditions.
-
1 month ago |
jacobin.com | Jeff Schuhrke
Senator Chris Van Hollen made news last week when he visited El Salvador to find twenty-nine-year-old Kilmar Abrego García, one of the 261 men President Donald Trump forcibly shipped to the Central American nation on March 15 in direct violation of a federal judge’s order.
-
Jan 24, 2025 |
popularresistance.org | Jeff Schuhrke
Above photo: Children wave Palestinian flags after the announcement of ceasefire and hostage-prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel on January 19, 2025 in Rafah, Gaza. Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images. Networks of U.S. union organizers are calling for an end to a system of apartheid in Israel. And cessation of all armed conflict in the region.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 10K
- Tweets
- 10K
- DMs Open
- No
RT @ZohranKMamdani: We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.
RT @stephensemler: The House GOP’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ shifts wealth from the bottom 60% of working-age households to the top income brack…
RT @FranceskAlbs: Concentration camp 2025 Starving people forced to walk miles under scorching heat. Lined up like animals, only a few are…
