Publications
Work and Features from the CWD Staff
Renewing Labor and Winning at Amazon
Authors Michael McQuarrie, Jonathan Rosenblum, and Benjamin Y. Fong confront the failures of the modern labor movement and explore avenues for movement renewal in the face of corporate behemoths in their new report.
Unions and Electoral Politics: Can Union Candidates Make a Difference?
In a newly released report, the Center for Working-Class Politics, the Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin join forces to explore the role that unions play in the realm of electoral politics.
Majority Rules 2025: Trends in State-Level Ballot Initiative Voting
This report from the Center for Work and Democracy provides research and analysis of ballot measures and the struggle for popular democracy in the United States.
Beyond the NLRB: Contemporary Strategies and Practices for Labor Movement Renewal
This research looks at different worker empowerment strategies outside of the NLRB model that have potential to build the political power of working people or redistribute social wealth.
Majority Rules: The Battle for Ballot Initiatives
"Majority Rules" (2022) is the Center's first publicly released report. Written by Benjamin Case and Michael McQuarrie, the ballot initiatives project and report explore the current fight over voters’ access to the ballot initiative process.
"Democratization is a process, and because they are democratizing political decision-making, the fight over ballot initiatives is more important than ever."
– Ben Case, Majority Rules