In The Great Escape, Saket Soni recounts how he organized a group of Indian migrant workers to free themselves from a human trafficking scam and hold their captors accountable.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-how-workers-escape-with-saket-soni

The strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-reviving-strike-britain-morag-livingstone-joe-rollin

On working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the city's labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-la-1992-higbie-wong

The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-how-to-bargain-for-power-with-jane-mcalevey

Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-essential-workers-in-crisis-with-elizabeth-lalasz-and-jia-lee

Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-essential-workers-in-crisis-with-elizabeth-lalasz-and-jia-lee

Long COVID is a labor rights issue.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-when-covid-never-ends

Delivery workers from New York and London join the podcast to talk about organizing during the pandemic.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-courier-class-war

Delivery workers from New York and London join the podcast to talk about organizing during the pandemic.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-courier-class-war

A mental healthcare provider discusses the pandemic's effects on her work.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-mental-health-workers-double-pandemic-with-kellie-benson

Labor journalists discuss media coverage of the recent strike wave in Britain.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-the-death-and-life-of-labor-journalism

Two congressional staffers discuss the push to unionize Capitol Hill.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-the-union-on-the-hill-with-janae-washington-and-taylor-doggett

British dockworkers join the podcast to talk about ongoing strikes in Liverpool and Felixstowe.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-shutting-down-the-ports-with-steve-gerrard-and-liverpool-dockworkers

A group of strippers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood hopes to break new ground in organizing their field nationwide as part of the Actors’ Equity Association.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-strippers-seek-justice-at-work

The president of the RMT joins the podcast to talk about the union's recent strike and what's next for rail workers in the UK.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-train-strikes-revive-british-unions-with-alex-gordon-of-the-rmt

The president of the RMT joins the podcast to talk about the union's recent strike and what's next for rail workers in the UK.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-train-strikes-revive-british-unions-with-alex-gordon-of-the-rmt

The president of the RMT joins the podcast to talk about the union's recent strike and what's next for rail workers in the UK.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-train-strikes-revive-british-unions-with-alex-gordon-of-the-rmt

What does the fall of Roe mean for workers? Asha Banerjee of the Economic Policy Institute discusses the economic impacts of abortion bans.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-reproductive-justice-is-labor-justice

Donna Jo Marks, Carlos Perez, and Jessica Wender-Shubow join Belabored for a live discussion about the politics of time spent at work.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-live-from-labor-notes

Workers at a division of games conglomerate Activision Blizzard shocked the industry by becoming one of the first collective bargaining units in the U.S. gaming industry.

For links and articles mentioned in this episode, visit https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-game-workers-unite-and-win-with-emma-kinema