The Cultural Turn Assigned To The Labor Beat, or the Curious Case of Gabriel Winant

When your politics are grounded in dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, labor is just one beat among others.

There are today two camps of left-labor writers and organizers. They share the same basic goal: growing the power of labor and its institutions in society, winning social-democratic gains, beating back the power of capitalist interests, and re-building social programs and redistributive policies. But the way these things are to be achieved is starkly di…