Jenny Brown is an assistant editor at Labor Notes. She is author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work (PM Press, 2019) and Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (Verso, 2019). She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to make “morning-after pill” contraception available over-the-counter in the United States and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. For ten years she co-chaired the Alachua County Labor Party, organizing for national health insurance, the right to a job at a living wage, free higher education and a working person’s political party under the Labor Party slogan, “The corporations have two parties, we need one of our own.” At Labor Notes she covers the airline industry, Boeing, women workers, pensions, and health care policy. She co-authored, with other Labor Notes staff, How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers (2014). In addition to Labor Notes, her work has appeared in Jacobin, Huffington Post, Jewish Currents, and elsewhere. She also writes, teaches, and organizes with National Women’s Liberation (womensliberation.org).
