A Passion for Teaching and a Vision for Change
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Jia Lee, a special education teacher
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Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work
Backstage with a Makeup Artist
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Cynthia O’Rourke, a makeup artist and member
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Speed-Ups, Write-Ups, and Profits Up at Amazon
Editor’s Note: For this article in New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” series, columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed William Stolz, who has
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Game Workers Unite!
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger inter- viewed Declan Peach, a game worker
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Down to Bare Bones: A New York Laborer Shares Her Story
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Jewel Tolliver, a laborer and member
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Women Farmworkers Fight to Secure Their Rights and End Sexual Harassment
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed three women who are members of
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Made in L.A.: Sweated Labor in the U.S. Garment Industry
Editor’s Note: The more things change, the more they stay the same. To a surprising extent, the super exploitation of
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Sex Work is Work
A good number of sex workers wouldn’t define themselves as sex workers, but the term is becoming more ubiquitous over
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Motherwork Is Work: A Welfare Warrior Speaks
I raised three sons as a single mom on welfare when they were very young, and then again when they
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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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