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Banerjee, T., & Case, B. (2020). The Leverage of Protest: Market, Media, and Reputational Disruption in Social Movement Success. Sociological Forum, 35(1), 95–125.

Case, B. (2017). Social Movement Ecology and Its Implications: Unpacking the Natural Metaphor. Berkeley Journal of Sociology. 61: 76-87.

Case, B. (2021). Contentious Effervescence: The Subjective Experience of Rioting. Mobilization, 26(2), 179–196.

Case, B., & Stribling-Uss, J. (2023). The Revolution Will Be Encrypted: A Strategy of Leaks and Ciphers. Berkeley Journal of Sociology. 64: 110-27

da Cruz, N. F., Rode, P., & McQuarrie, M. (2019). New urban governance: A review of current themes and future priorities. Journal of Urban Affairs, 41(1), 1–19.

Esch, M. C. (2023). Movers and Shakers: Social Movement Learning and the North Hollywood Stripper Strike. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Fong, B. Y., & Naschek, M. (2021). NGOism: The Politics of the Third Sector. Catalyst, 5(1).

Hernandez, J. (2023). The Federal Student Loan Pause: Assessing Its Impact on Healthcare and Retirement Spending. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Knowles, E. D., McDermott, M., & Richeson, J. A. (2023). Varieties of White Working-Class Identity. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221144735

Offenbacher, C., & Fong, B. Y. (2022). Occupy in Retrospect. Catalyst, 5(4).

Payraudeau, M. (2021). Delivering Precarity: Food Delivery Gig Workers, the Façade of Flexibility, and the Future of Work. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Vandermeade, S.L., & Fonow, M.M. (2024) How Queer Activism is Changing the Labor Movement. New Labor Forum. 33, (2).

Public-Facing Articles

Abbott, J., Guastella, D., Fong, B.Y., DeVeaux, F., & Zacher, S. (2026) Unions and Electoral Politics: Can Union Candidates Make a Difference? The Center for Working-Class Politics, The Center for Work and Democracy, & Jacobin.

Brooks, C. (2026). Should Unions Radically Rethink First Contracts. Jacobin.

Brooks, C. (2026). TSA Is on a Brown-Bag Strike -- and Crippling Airports. Jacobin.

Brooks, C. (2026). Will More Warehouses Burn? Jacobin.

Brooks, C. (2026). How Massachusetts Teachers Transformed Their Union. Jacobin.

Brooks, C. (2026). The Real Cost of Union Busting Is Much Higher Than You Think. Jacobin.

Case, B. (2020.) The Thailand Uprising: Rubber Ducks Against Royalty. ROAR.

Case, B. (2021). Speaking of Riots: The Complicated Reality of Violence vs. Nonviolence. Political Violence at a Glance.

Case, B. (2022). The coming era of direct action. Waging Nonviolence.

Case, B. (2022). Initiative Campaigns Bridge Partisan Divides. Convergence.

Case, B. (2023). Ballot Initiatives Are Critical to the Left’s Strategy and Ohio Has Proven It. Jacobin.

Case, B. (2023). Ohio's Antidemocratic Abortion Referendum Failed, but More Like It Are Coming. Jacobin.

Case, B. (2024). There are reasons to believe a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is closer than ever. The Conversation.

Case, B. (2024). We Can Have Cop City, or We Can Have Democracy. Jacobin.

Case, B. (2024). Abortion rights are on 10 state ballots in November − Democrats can’t count on this to win elections for them. The Conversation.

Case, B. (2024). A Direct Democracy Strategy for the Left. Jacobin.

Case, B. (2025). Bernie and AOC, Put Your Platform on the Ballot. Jacobin.

Case, B., Weintraub, A., and Gold, J. (2021). We Are Jews from Pittsburgh: Please Don't Use the Tree of Life Tragedy for Political Gain. The Forward.

Case, B., & McQuarrie, M. (2022). Ballot initiatives reveal a battle between voters and legislators. London School of Economics | USAPP.

Case, B., & McQuarrie, M. (2022). The Left Won Big on Ballot Initiatives. That's Why They're Under Attack. Jacobin.

Case, B. (2025). Not on our Dime: Divesting from Genocide through Direct Democracy. Convergence.

Case, B. (2025). Magic Numbers are No Shortcut to Strategy, Convergence.

Case, B. (2026). The Year of the Billionaire Tax. Jacobin.

Case, B. (2026). How to Explain the Inexplicable War in Iran? Jacobin.

Case, B. (2026). The Super-Elite Is Tightening Its Grip on Combat Sports. Jacobin.

Esch, M. (2023). 5 Lessons from the North Hollywood Stripper Strike. Waging Nonviolence.

Esch, M. (2024). Abortion Advocates Should Turn to Direct Democracy. Jacobin.

Esch, M. (2024). The Atlanta City Council Is Scared of Direct Democracy. Jacobin.

Esch, M. (2025). How Abortion Won in Arizona. The Forge

Esch, M. (2025). Three Promising Innovations in Worker Organizing Beyond the NLRB. Inequality.

Esch, M. (2025).The Success of People First Policies: Give the People What They Want. Inequality.

Fong, B.Y. (2020). Opinion | Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice. The New York Times.

Fong, B.Y. (2021). Knowledge Is Not Power: Why Cigarettes Still Appeal. Current Affairs.

Fong, B.Y. (2022). The Psychedelic Renaissance Is on the Verge of an Uneasy Enlightenment. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2023). How Can Workers Organize Against Capital Today? Catalyst.

Fong, B.Y. (2023). The Jobs and Freedom Strategy. Catalyst.

Fong, B.Y. (2023). You Should Know About Labor Leader John Brophy. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2024). Labor’s Gains? Phenomenal World.

Fong, B.Y. (2024). Psilocybin legislation is helping psychedelic drugs make a comeback – a drug researcher explains the challenges they face. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2024). The Art of the Green New Deal. Jacobin.

Fong, B. Y. (2025). Interns and Residents Are Unionizing at a Rapid Clip. Jacobin.

Fong, B. Y. (2025). A Labor Movement Beyond the NLRA?. Jacobin.

Fong, B. Y. (2025). Unionizing UnitedHealthcare. Jacobin.

Fong, B. Y. (2025). To Revitalize the Labor Movement, We Need to Go Beyond the NLRB. Power at Work.

Fong, B. Y. (2025). Making Steel for Offshore Wind Turbines, Now With Union Labor. Jacobin.

Fong, B. Y. (2025). A Golden Age for Labor? Not So Fast. The Nation

Fong, B. Y. (2025). Amazon Says It's a 'Myth' That Robots Kill Jobs, Here's the Reality. The Guardian

Fong, B.Y. (2025). Making Expensive Cities Into Union Towns. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2025). To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2025). The Biggest Recent Union Wins Were in Art and Bacon. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2025). Life Inside China's Gig Machine: An Interview with Hu Anyan. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2025). Amazon’s Layoffs Are Business as Usual, Not Omens of AI Doom. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2025). Labor & Logistics. Column, Phenomenal World.

Fong, B.Y. (2026). Overexpectations in e-commerce? Phenomenal World.

Fong, B.Y. (2026). Where's My Package? Urban Omnibus.

Fong, B.Y. (2026). Home Depot's New Last Mile. Phenomenal World.

Fong, B.Y. (2026). The Labor Movement Must Go All In on Organizing Amazon. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y. (2026). Unstitching America. Phenomenal World.

Fong, B.Y. (2026). Trucking's Window of Opportunity. Phenomenal World.

Fong, B. Y., & Case, B. (2022). Taxing the Rich Requires More Than Policy. Common Dreams.

Fong, B.Y., & Jenkins, S. (2024). Blue-Collar Workers Deserve Six-Figure Salaries Too. Jacobin.

Fong, B.Y., & Jenkins, S. (2025). Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem. Jacobin.

Fong, B. Y., & Rosenblum, J. (2025). As Trump Pushes Privatization of USPS, Amazon May Be Preparing to Take Over. Truthout.

Ghilarducci, T. (2025). Labor Day 2025: Who Owns the Economy? Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2025). Do Billionaires Really Move to Avoid Wealth Taxes? Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). Why the California Billionaire Tax is Really About Belonging. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). How Homeownership Became America's Most Misunderstood Investment. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). What Homebuyers Need To Know About Real Housing Wealth. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). Crypto Doesn't Belong In Retirement Plans. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). However you feel about their creator, TrumpIRAs are sorely needed. LA Times.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). The Real Difference Between Bush's Privatization Push and Trump's Accounts. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). 62-Year Old Works His Whole Life. He Has No Savings. He's Not Unusual. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). The Myth of the Deserving Billionaire. Project Syndicate.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). Is Italy's 'Rule of 103' A Good Idea For The U.S. Retirement System? Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). Social Security Trustees Report Warns of 22% Benefit Cut in 2032. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). 4 Reasons Women Appear To Be Better Investors. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. (2026). Trump Baby Wealth Accounts And The $300,000 Newborn Gap. Forbes.

Ghilarducci, T. & McGahey, R. (2026). The Democrats Need a Story, Not More Lists. Project Syndicate.

Jenkins, S., & Fong, B.Y. (2024). The Port Strike Called the Shipping Companies’ Bluff. Jacobin.

McQuarrie, M, (2023). Health care workers gain 21% wage increase in pending agreement with Kaiser Permanente after historic strike. Jacobin.

McQuarrie, M. (2023). This Month’s Kaiser Health Care Strike Won Big for Workers and Patients. The Conversation.

McQuarrie, M. (2025). Minneapolis Educators Are Showing a Way Forward for Labor. Jacobin.

McQuarrie, M. & Case, B. (2022). Ballot Initiatives Are the Hidden Voting Rights Issue in This Election Cycle. Jacobin.

McQuarrie, M. & Case, B. (2022). Silencing the majority: Citizen initiatives are under attack in Arizona. AZ Mirror.

Montanari, L., & Rosenblum, J. (2025). Italian Amazon Workers Strike and Win. Will Unions Elsewhere Follow Suit? Truthout.

Rosenblum, J. (2024). Payback Time: Now It's the Machinists' Turn to Mount The Barricades. The Nation.

Rosenblum, J. & Fong, B. Y. (2025). Amazon's Retribution in Quebec Should be a Wake-up Call. Jacobin.

Rosenblum, J. (2025). After a North Carolina Election Loss, Amazon Union Organizers Must Think Bigger, Bolder. The Nation.

Rosenblum, J. (2025). How Amazon Workers Can Organize Globally. Red Pepper Magazine.

Rosenblum, J. (2025). Amazon's Prime Sweatshop Is Nothing to Celebrate. The Nation.

Rosenblum, J. (2025). Now Comes the Hard Part. The Nation.

Rosenblum, J. (2026). Striking Spanish Workers Just Showed That Amazon Is Not Invincible. Truthout.

Rosenblum, J. (2026). Amazon is Using AI to Disempower Workers. The US Labor Movement Must Fight Back. Truthout.

Sherwood, I. (2025) How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani. Jacobin.

Siebens, J. & Case, B. (2024). What's Happening in Gaza Is Not a War. It's a Massacre. Inkstick.

Vickers, T. & Rosenblum, R. (2025). Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally. Jacobin.