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Project Collaborator

Alex Gourevitch

Associate Professor of Political Science Brown University

Biography

Alex Gourevitch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His first book, From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth, shows how the critique of slavery developed into a critique of wage-labor. He is currently working on a book on the political theory of strikes.

Featured Project

Detail of a tapestry depicting workers on a picket line.

Which Side Are You On? The Labor Movement Between Theory and Practice

2026 – 2027

Projects

What Force on Earth: Theorizing the Labor Movement

Tapestry featuring labor organizers

What Force on Earth: Theorizing the Labor Movement

Is the labor movement a subject for political theory? This grant brings together scholars from across many disciplines, along with organizers and labor leaders, to explore what political visions, institutional structures, and organizing strategies might seize the opportunities of the present...
Are labor unions a subject for political theory? What would it be to provide such a theory? Many of the conceptual staples of the labor movement — solidarity, common interest, economic leverage — are relatively concrete, functioning largely as practical and instrumental ideas. At the same time, the ...