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Working for Cash: America’s Wage Problem

August 2023August 2023 Michael J. McGrorty 0 Comments capitalism, cash-pay, immigrant workers, industry, Labor, minimum wage, neoliberalism, trade unions, wage theft

Caption: Press conference by Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy on wage theft. Credit: Los Angeles Alliance for a

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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)

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Social Democracy or Fortress Democracy? A Twenty-First Century Immigration Plan

August 2021September 2021 Deepak Bhargava climate change, Democratic Party, globalization, immigrant workers, politics, populism, working class

In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois observed that “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of

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Healing into Power: An Approach for Confronting Workplace Sexual Violence

May 2021August 2021 Sanjay Pinto, Zoë West and KC Wagner equality, immigrant workers, Labor, sexual violence, women workers, working class

Since its emergence in the early 1990s, the Justice for Janitors campaign has held a place of prominence in the

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U.S. Health Care: Undocumented Immigrants Shut Out

April 2021May 2021 Nadhia Rahman health care, health care reform, health disparities, immigrant workers, undocumented immigrants, undocumented workers

The undocumented population in the United States has been forced to navigate a country where vitriol against immigrants runs rampant,

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In a Covid-19 World, Can Hotel Workers Keep Their Gains?

September 2020September 2020 David Bacon capitalism, collective bargaining, equality, immigrant workers, Labor

Photo caption: Anand Singh (center) in the middle of Minneapolis’ Fourth Street, during coordinated national demonstrations against Marriott in 2018.

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The New Solidarity: How Immigrant Bond Funds Free ICE Detainees

May 2020May 2020 Administrator community organizations, immigrant workers, politics, poverty, radicalism, unorganized workers

By Mariya Strauss On August 7, 2019, veteran civil rights attorney Cliff Johnson, who directs the MacArthur Justice Center at

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

Women Farmworkers Fight to Secure Their Rights and End Sexual Harassment

July 2019January 2020 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 interviewed three women who are members of

Precarious Work Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

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

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

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

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

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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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