Stories by Amy Dean

Amy Dean is a fellow at the Century Foundation and the principal of ABD Ventures, a firm that seeks to increase the organizational effectiveness of social change organizations. She co-authored, with David Reynolds, "A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement." Dean has worked for more than 20 years at the cross-section between labor and community-based organizations. You can follow Amy on Twitter at @amybdean, or she can be reached via the Web site, www.abdventures.com. subscribe to Amy Dean's feed

Got an Abusive Boss? There's an App for That

Posted on: Jul 10, 2013, Source: YES! Magazine

Working America launches a website, FixMyJob.com, to be a WebMD for the rights of working people.

Why Unions Are Going Into the Co-op Business

Posted on: Mar 15, 2013, Source: YES! Magazine

The steelworkers deal that could turn the rust belt green.

Listen Up, Foodies! Saru Jayaraman Thinks You Should Care as Much About Restaurant Workers as You Do Your Organic Chicken

Posted on: Jan 29, 2013, Source: Truthout

An interview with the organizer of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United

Why Boycotting Hyatt Is More Than Just a Union Issue: An Interview With Activist Cleve Jones

Posted on: Aug 21, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org

Labor must demonstrate that the well-being of all Americans depends upon the fight for dignified working conditions, living wages and necessities like health care.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainstream Media?

Posted on: Jul 22, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org

Ehrenreich talks to Amy Dean about the crisis of economic insecurity, the invisibility of working people in the mainstream media, and the current state of journalism.

After the 99% Spring: What Comes Next

Posted on: Jul 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet

An interview with Ilana Berger and Tracy Van Slyke of The New Bottom Line.

What Can Labor Win if it Backs Obama's Re-Election?

Posted on: May 27, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org

If unions are going to be involved in electoral politics this year, what can they expect to win? And is Washington even relevant to progressive organizing efforts?

Fighting Banks, Helping 100s of Families: 'Occupy Our Homes' Is One of the Occupy Movement's Great Success Stories

Posted on: Feb 6, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org

Occupy Our Homes takes the Occupy movement's general critique of inequality -- something often expressed in abstract charts and tables -- and makes the issue concrete.

The 99 Percent Takes Office: How an Immigrant Housekeeper Got Elected to the Providence City Council

Posted on: Dec 5, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org

Activists in Providence, Rhode Island, are providing a model for electing officials at the municipal level who will champion the interests of working people.

Occupy Movement's Other Accomplishment: Spurring Cooperation Among Progressives

Posted on: Nov 4, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org

In Occupy Wall Street and beyond, grassroots progressives are now getting into the game of working together.

Occupy Wall Street and America's Democratic Tradition

Posted on: Oct 27, 2011, Source: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

For decades, we have focused on extending liberty in the realm of the marketplace, but this has come at the expense of democratic equality.

New "Unity Unions" Self-Organize to Confront Workplace Abuses

Posted on: Oct 21, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org

Even with pro-employee laws on the books, there is little hope of justice without a grassroots demand.

What Role for Labor in the Progressive Uprising? A Conversation With Labor Strategist Stephen Lerner

Posted on: Oct 12, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org

If labor alone can't create the change we need in this country, what role can unions play in supporting a wider progressive uprising?