Mutual Aid Can't Do It Alone.

FEATURES SINCE ARRIVING ON OUR SHORES THIS YEAR, THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has eroded Americans' confidence in the ability of the government to perform its most basic functions. For instance, Brooklyn-based efforts have been lauded for the cross-class mingling among people like tech workers and out-of-work restaurant workers that has come to define care networks in gentrified neighborhoods. Some labor federations, like the Knights of Labor, formed lodge-style arrangements to generate solidarity among workers as they struggled against Gilded Age robber barons and agricultural monopolists. While labor was forced into a defensive crouch, the liberal stewards of the New Deal order increasingly abandoned pro-worker policies for market-friendly ones. [Extracted from the article]