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Adjuncts Have a Hard Time: Unions at Rutgers Just Made It a Little Easier

September 2023September 2023 Kressent Pottenger 0 Comments collective bargaining, contingent workers, democracy, education, equality, union democracy, unorganized workers

Editor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Hank Kalet, a part-time lecturer in

On the Contrary

Veena Dubal Replies to Larry Cohen

January 2022January 2022 Veena Dubal collective bargaining, contingent workers, gig work, immigrant workers, sectoral bargaining, unorganized workers

Trade union density (alongside economic equality and working conditions) has fallen across all Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Organized Labor & Worker Organizing

The Labor Movement Comes to Virtual Reality: Unionizing Digital Media

May 2019June 2019 Sarah Jaffe collective bargaining, contingent workers, Labor, media, trade unions

Kim Kelly’s first “real” job—outside of dishwashing, retail sales, and touring with metal bands as a merchandise person—was at Vice

“Diversity, Women, and Power” Illustration by Yesenia Cortinas #MeToo

Featured Gender & Sexual Identity U.S. Politics & Society

Beyond #MeToo

August 2018February 2019 Judith Levine contingent workers, gender discrimination, immigrant workers, Labor, trade unions, unorganized workers, women workers

Power and sexploitation at work.

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Making the Grade: Rating Professors

February 2018May 2018 Joshua Sperber adjuncts, capitalism, consumption, contingent workers, education, higher education, Labor, Winter 2018

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

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.

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Contingent Faculty of the World Unite! Organizing to Resist the Corporatization of Higher Education

April 2016June 2018 Malini Cadambi Daniel adjunct, collective bargaining, contingent workers, faculty, fair labor standards act, higher education, low wage, trade unions, Winter 2016, worker centers

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

October 2015June 2018 Chris Lehmann capitalism, contingent workers, democracy, equality, Fall 2015, Labor, Marxism, neoliberalism, populism

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.