SUMMER 2026
ISSUE 07






































TRANSMISSIONS


Little Scraps and Memory:
Lineages of Workers’ Inquiry
in the United States

PATRICK KING

SHOPTALK


Nada Se Construye Sin Estas Manos
(Nothing Is Built Without These Hands)

ALEXANDRA THYME


Liquid Assets:
How the Maquiladora System
Built the World’s Most Profitable
Blood Business

SAM RUSSEK


We Feel It from the Warehouse Floor:
Amazon’s Immigrant Workers
Under Attack

LULA VALENTINE

WORKER INITIATIVE


If You Don’t Like the Smell,
Blame It on Cherelle:
The Philadelphia Municipal
Strike of 2025

DAN DEDOMENICO


Sign of the Times:
An Account of the First
Tech Workers’ Strike

JOHN CRUICKSHANK, WITH OTHER
MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
TECH GUILD

LETTERS


Letters to the Editors