WORKERS' RIGHTS
SHOP TO SUPPORTTHE KEY ISSUES
CARE FOR THE WRONGED—Repair historic wrongs and end systemic racism.
EMERGENCY CARE—Help everyone get and stay well, and support workers, families and small business for as long as it takes.
A GOOD JOB FOR EVERYONE WHO NEEDS ONE—Working people can't wait years for jobs to come back. We need millions of jobs now.
CARE FOR EACH OTHER—Address the deficiencies in how our government cares for us that the pandemic has revealed.
CARE FOR THE FUTURE—Act now to make us all more resilient to challenges we know we have to confront.
Key Issues for Workers' Rights comes from Working Families Party vision principles.
THE MERCH
PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORGS FIGHTING FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS
"We have to make sure that we demand meaningful change and meaningful assistance for working families."
—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
Immediate Actions To Take:+
- Urge your Senators to maintain and enact the historic investments in the Build Back Better Act
- Call your reps to increase housing investments
- Volunteer with or support a local community land trust or other organization working to make housing a right, not a commodity
Organizations To Support + Follow:+
- 9 to 5
- Age On
- Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Fight for $15
- Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
- Jobs With Justice
- National Domestic Workers Alliance
- One Fair Wage
- Pride At Work
- United Farm Workers
- Working America
- Working Families Party
- Workplace Fairness
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:+
- Articles —
- Collective Success: The Myth of Progress through Black Capitalism by Jasmine Burnett — Bitch Media
- Dolores Huerta Talks Coronavirus, Organizing, and Labor History by Kim Kelly — Teen Vogue
- Flewed Out: After 20 Years, “Chicken Run” Remains a Lesson in Ethical Labor by Dejan Jotanovic — Bitch Media
- Labor Day Is a Government Scam by Kim Kelly — Teen Vogue
- On Board with Queer Labor and Racial Solidarity — Yes! Magazine
- The Antiwork Subreddit is Watching the Great Resignation — Teen Vogue
- The Long Feminist History of Fighting for Universal Childcare by Elena Schilder — Bitch Media
- Trial by Firing: Are Unions the Cure for Post Traumatic Press Disorder? by Caitlin Wolper — Bitch Media
- Trump’s War on Workers Rights by NYTimes Editorial Board — NYTimes
- What Socialism Has To Do With the U.S. Labor Movement by Kim Kelly — Teen Vogue
- What “Capitalism” Is and How It Affects People by Kim Kelly — Teen Vogue
- What The Labor Movement Wants From Joe Biden by Kim Kelly — Teen Vogue
- Which Millenials Get To Be Burned Out? by Nicole Froio — Bitch Media
- Wildcat Strike: Sports Show the Possibilities of Collective Action by Amira Rose Davis —Bitch Media
- Books —
- $2.00 A Day: Living On Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin + H. Luke Shaefer
- A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis
- Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav
- Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America by Dana Frank
- Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor by Steven Greenhouse
- Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right about Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller
- Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Wolfgang Streeck
- Capital, Volume 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production by Karl Marx
- Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell
- Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective
- Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture Edited by Gabriel Thompson
- Everyday Transgressions; Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law by Adelle Blackett
- Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser
- Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
- From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States by Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty, illustrated by Joe Sacco
- Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey
- Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization by Immanuel Wallerstein
- How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century by Erik Olin Wright
- How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Ordell
- How To Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care by Marlee Grace
- How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Steeck
- In A Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung
- Invisible Women: Data Bias In a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
- Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
- Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters by Louis Uchitelle
- Murder in the Garment District: The Grip of Organized Crime and the Decline of Labor in the United States by David Witwer and Catherine Rios
- Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
- Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper
- Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power by Jennifer Worley
- Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
- Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics by Eric Blanc
- Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy and Who Pays for it? by Brett Christophers
- Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Molly Smith and Juno Mac
- Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover
- Socialism… Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation by Danny Katch
- Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin
- Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson Cowie
- The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America by Ai-jen Poo
- The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel
- The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America by David Rolf
- The Limits to Capital by David Harvey
- The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
- The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond by Nancy Fraser
- The Origins of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
- The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers by Ann Pettifor
- The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
- The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyoneby Richard Wilkinson + Kate Pickett
- The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fixed It by Robert B. Reich
- The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Jessica Whyte
- Time for Outrage by Stephane Hessel
- Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People’s History by Howard Zinn and Ray Suarez
- Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over by Caroline Fredrickson
- Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build The Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
- Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It by Kim Bobo
- We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style edited by Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier, and Michael Kazin
- Work: The Last 1,000 Years by Andrea Komlosy
- Workers and Capital by Mario Tronti
- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
- Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
- Watch + Listen —
- 9 to 5 (1908) — Amazon Prime
- American Factory (2019) — Netflix
- Beyond Capitalism: A Multiracial Labor Movement — Be Antiracism with Ibram X. Kendri Podcast
- Blue Collar (1978) — Amazon Prime
- Chicken Run (2000) — Amazon Prime
- Food Chains (2014) — Amazon Prime
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)— HBO Max
- Norma Rae (1979)— Amazon Prime
- North Country (2005) — Amazon Prime
- Support the Girls (2018) — Hulu
- The Fight In The Fields (1997) — PBS
- The work that makes all other work possible by Ai-jen Poo — Ted Talk
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at info@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Apr 1, 2023.