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By the end of the 2010s, only 6 percent of U.S. private-sector workers were union members—the lowest share in a

Democratizing the Knowledge Economy: Will Labor Accept the Challenge?

August 2021September 2021 J. Phillip Thompson and Christine Curella knowledge economy, labor unions, platform cooperatives, politics, race

We are in the midst of cascading political, economic, health, and environmental crises. Perhaps most evident is the Republican Party’s

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Earth to Labor: Dispatches from the Climate Battleground

May 2016June 2018 Sean Sweeney energy policy, environmental, jobs, Keystone XL, labor movement, labor unions, LiUNA, pipeline, Sean Sweeney, Spring 2016

Contested Futures: Labor After Keystone XL by Sean Sweeney The extraordinary story of the political battle over the Keystone XL

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Debtors’ Island: How Puerto Rico Became a Hedge Fund Playground

March 2016June 2018 Jennifer Wolff austerity, debt, labor unions, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico crisis, Puerto Rico debt, Puerto Rico debt crisis, Puerto Rico labor unions, Spring 2016

You could call it a perfect storm: a fiscal crisis converging with a deep secular economic decline.1 Once touted as the showcase of U.S.- led economic development, debt-strapped Puerto Rico is currently embroiled in a struggle for survival. During the mid-twentieth century, Puerto Rico grew at a rapid pace, betting on cheap labor, privileged duty-free access to the U.S. market, and tax incentives for U.S. companies. By the 1970s, however, the formula had lost steam and …