Press and Public Writing

    Cody R. Melcher and Joseph van der Naald

January 28, 2025

Organized labor and progressive politics do not fail in the South because of some ingrained cultural pathology. They fail because its interracial labor movement was, and continues to be, systematically suppressed. 

Joseph van der Naald and Michael Goldfield

November - December, 2024

In its immediate aftermath, many saw the UAW’s victory in Chattanooga as the labor movement’s long sought-after beachhead in the U.S. South. We provide a sober analysis of what happened by placing the union's wins and losses into a broader historical context.

Cody Melcher, C.K. Seymour, and
Joseph van der Naald

November 29, 2024

Failing to acknowledge that creating a durable white supremacist regime is a process that can fail obscures the fact that white supremacy is often strongly and popularly resisted.

September 29, 2024

Labor unions in the higher education sector have made durable and substantial gains over the course of the past decade, particularly among non-tenure track faculty and graduate and undergraduate student employees.

    Joseph van der Naald and Michael Goldfield

July 2, 2024

Many explanations of the United Auto Workers’ recent loss at Mercedes in Alabama don’t hold up under scrutiny. To understand the challenges the UAW ran into, we need a historical perspective on attempts to organize in the US South. 

William A. Herbert, Jacob Apkarian and
Joseph van der Naald 

October 21, 2023

Media attention has focused on the organizing drives at Amazon, Starbucks, Apple and other iconic brands. Yet while workers have voted to unionize in those companies, management intransigence has meant no collective bargaining agreements have been reached. By contrast, in other sectors of the economy, such as higher education and among medical interns and residents, the recent spate of organizing has led to significant gains. 

November 16, 2022 

Host Leonardo Lopez Carreno sits down with Joseph van der Naald, adjunct professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, to talk about how the city has led the nation in the recent uptick in organized labor activity.

November 15, 2022 

In this post, Stone Center research assistant Joseph van der Naald discusses the chapter of the recently published "Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth" that he co-authored with Sarah Bruch and Janet Gornick.

William A. Herbert and
Joseph van der Naald

December 11, 2019

On November 20, 2019, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions submitted comments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in response to its proposed rule to exclude graduate assistants and student employees from coverage under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).