Class cultures, culture classes, and the labor renaissance

Roderick Graham
7 min readNov 11, 2023

We are going through something of a renaissance in United States labor relations. By labor relations — maybe a term not used by many, I mean the collection of informal expectations and formal agreements between employers and employees. The federal agency that oversees labor relations is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The Board has not been this busy in decades. Here is a quick rundown of the highlights over the past two years.

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Roderick Graham

Gadfly | Professor of Sociology at Old Dominion University | I post about social science, culture, and progressive politics | Views are my own