The Long Road to Recognition: Southern Service Workers Find Their Power
Credit: Union of Southern Service Workers Caption: Waffle House worker, Naomi Harris, speaks to a crowd of supporters outside a
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contingent workers
Adjuncts Have a Hard Time: Unions at Rutgers Just Made It a Little Easier
By Kressent Pottenger Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Hank Kalet, a
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Trade union density (alongside economic equality and working conditions) has fallen across all Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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The Labor Movement Comes to Virtual Reality: Unionizing Digital Media
Kim Kelly’s first “real” job—outside of dishwashing, retail sales, and touring with metal bands as a merchandise person—was at Vice
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Beyond #MeToo
Power and sexploitation at work.
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Making the Grade: Rating Professors
How student consumerism tyrannizes adjuncts.
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Justice on the Job for Nail Salon Workers– Narbada Chhetri and Pabitra Dash interview with Kressent Pottenger
Organizing on the far side of the economy is gaining ground once thought impossible.
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Contingent Faculty of the World Unite! Organizing to Resist the Corporatization of Higher Education
The once hallowed and secure work life of American university faculty has for the past quarter century been in turmoil. Being a professor was once a respected, stable profession, but is now increasingly characterized by low pay, minimal benefits, and no job security.
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Marxism and Consumer Culture
Our obsession with the question of what sort of consciousness attaches itself most readily to the culture of consumption has paradoxically blinded us to the ways in which the ideal type of the American consumer has achieved a new level of uncontested sovereignty in the political rhetoric of our market culture.
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