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Women Farmworkers Fight to Secure Their Rights and End Sexual Harassment

July 2019August 2019 Kressent Pottenger, Dolores Bustamante, Elvira Carvajal and Mily Treviño-Saucedo climate change, community organizations, equality, gender discrimination, health care, immigrant workers, living wage, women workers

Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger inter- viewed three women who are members

Precarious Work Working-Class Voices

Made in L.A.: Sweated Labor in the U.S. Garment Industry

June 2019June 2019 Yeni Dewi and Kressent Pottenger capitalism, garment industry, immigrant workers, sweatshops, women workers, worker centers

Editor Note: The more things change, the more they stay the same. To a surprising extent, the super exploitation of

Gender & Sexual Identity Working-Class Voices

Sex Work is Work

February 2019 Riley Renegade and Kressent Pottenger community organizations, gender discrimination, informal economy, unorganized workers, women workers

A good number of sex workers wouldn’t define themselves as sex workers, but the term is becoming more ubiquitous over

Gender & Sexual Identity Working-Class Voices

Motherwork Is Work: A Welfare Warrior Speaks

September 2018February 2019 Pat Gowens and Kressent Pottenger austerity, poverty, social welfare, unemployment, women workers, working class

I raised three sons as a single mom on welfare when they were very young, and then again when they

Gender & Sexual Identity Immigration Precarious Work Working-Class Voices

Justice on the Job for Nail Salon Workers– Narbada Chhetri and Pabitra Dash interview with Kressent Pottenger

January 2018June 2018 Kressent Pottenger community organizations, contingent workers, immigrant workers, Labor, living wage, Winter 2018, women workers, Working-class voices

Organizing on the far side of the economy is gaining ground once thought impossible.

Working-Class Voices

The Ecstasy and Exploitation of Art Handling

September 2017April 2018 Clynton Lowry interviewed by Kressent Pottenger Art, Art Handling, Fall 2017

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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