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This paper critiques the enduring dominance of transformational leadership paradigms and conceptualizes leaders and contexts as co-constitutive, moving beyond the limitations of both heroic individualism and contextual determinism.

Challenging the prevailing view that the Chums of Chance's aerial departure in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day represents a transcendent utopian triumph, this paper argues that their escape merely perpetuates the systems they sought to dismantle.

This study draws on Jacques Rancière’s reading of the worker-poet Louis-Gabriel Gauny to propose a "neither/and" framework that preserves the fundamental undecidability of time, identity, and flexibility, demanding a critical reevaluation of managerial concepts such as work-life balance.

Tracing the United Auto Workers’ decade-long organizing drive at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant across three elections, this essay explains how the union overcame its 2014 and 2019 defeats to secure a decisive 2024 victory, briefly reversing decades of declining density in the motor vehicle manufacturing sector.

Chronicling rise and fall of a union democracy movement, this piece illustrates the challenges involved in sustaining rank-and-file independence following electoral success.

This paper deploys topological geographic thought to critique the limitations of Global Production Network theory during the US auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles.

This essay contributes to contemporary debates over the nature of surveillance under late-stage capitalism through a close reading of La Loi du Marché (2016) and En Guerre (2019).

This paper argues the UAW's defeat was primarily self-inflicted through critical deficits in strategic capacity, challenging the view that external factors alone determine organizing outcomes in the American South.

This work provides previously untranslated portions of Gabriel Tarde’s The Public and the Crowd, revealing Tarde’s political ambivalence toward modernity and his complex engagement with the concept of the crowd.

This special issue critically re-evaluates the radical methodological tradition of "workers' inquiry," exploring its potential to analyze and disrupt contemporary capitalist labor relations through a diverse collection of theoretical reflections and empirical case studies ranging from logistics to the creative arts.

Challenging traditional Marxist metrics of individual exploitation that fail to account for the realities of cybertime, this paper draws on Bifo’s concept of molecular subjectivation to investigate what political strategies remain available as immaterial labor becomes the dominant mode of production.

Drawing on labor process theory and Derrida’s notion of the gift, this paper argues that side project policy functions as a mechanism for intensifying managerial control and exploitation, creating a paradoxical space that simultaneously reinforces power and offers possibilities for resistance.

Drawing on data from Harlem and Williamsburg, this study argues that while the proliferation of upscale "boutiques" is championed by the state and new investors as a form of revitalization, it ultimately accelerates the displacement of essential services relied upon by lower-class residents.