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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

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Working-Class Voices 

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

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Precarious Work Working-Class Voices 

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

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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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Class Featured Gender & Sexual Identity Race 

Why Did a Majority of White Women Vote for Trump?

January 2018May 2018 Sarah Jaffe capitalism, conservatism, immigrant workers, populism, Republican Party, Tea Party, Trump, Winter 2018

Deciphering the political enigma of the women’s vote.

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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.

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Class On the Contrary Race 

How Census Data Mislead Us about Ethno-Racial Change in the United States: A Response to Mora and Rodríguez-Muñiz

April 2017June 2018 Richard Alba demographics, ethnicity, immigrant workers, politics, race, Spring 2017

I am pleased to open a conversation with G. Cristina Mora and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz about census data and what they

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