Working for Cash: America’s Wage Problem
Caption: Press conference by Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy on wage theft. Credit: Los Angeles Alliance for a
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immigrant workers
Veena Dubal Replies to Larry Cohen
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
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
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
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?
Photo caption: Anand Singh (center) in the middle of Minneapolis’ Fourth Street, during coordinated national demonstrations against Marriott in 2018.
Read MoreThe New Solidarity: How Immigrant Bond Funds Free ICE Detainees
By Mariya Strauss On August 7, 2019, veteran civil rights attorney Cliff Johnson, who directs the MacArthur Justice Center at
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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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Beyond #MeToo
Power and sexploitation at work.
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