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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Working-Class Voices
A selection of working-class voices columns that appear on the pages of the New Labor Forum. View the full archive of working-class voices here.
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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The Ecstasy and Exploitation of Art Handling
I decided to be an art handler when I decided to be an artist at the end of college. Yet only when I got to New York City in 2012 did I start to identify with being an art handler. The art world is essentially in New York and that’s where I really developed a sense of the art industry.
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