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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

Gender & Sexual Identity Working-Class Voices

Sex Work is Work

February 2019 Riley Renegade and Kressent Pottenger community organizations, gender discrimination, informal economy, unorganized workers, women workers

A good number of sex workers wouldn’t define themselves as sex workers, but the term is becoming more ubiquitous over

Organized Labor & Worker Organizing

#CountMeIn: The NYC Building Trades Campaign Puts It All on the Line

February 2019 David Mirtz collective bargaining, Labor, middle class, trade unions, unorganized workers, working class

An unusual but increasingly common sight on the streets of New York City, hundreds, some- times thousands of union construction

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Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Platform Workers Take on Tech Giants in the Workplace and the World

January 2019February 2019 Julianne Tveten capitalism, collective bargaining, corporations, industry, Labor, military-industrial complex, unorganized workers

In recent years, Silicon Valley’s platform workers have introduced a phenomenon previously alien to their industry: collective action. This process

“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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Labor Wars: Two Reasons Why Most Unions Don’t Do Large-Scale Organizing

October 2016June 2018 Shaun Richman collective bargaining, corporations, Fall 2016, global unions, international labor, Labor, Labor Wars, organizing, unorganized workers, working class

In this article, views of Shaun Richman are expressed followed by a response from Jonathan Rosenblum Two Reasons Why Most Unions Don’t Do Large-Scale Organizing By Shaun Richman In 2005, the labor movement…

Collection: International Ladies Garment Workers Union Photographs (1885-1985)

On the Contrary

Careful What You Wish For: A Critical Appraisal of Proposals to Rebuild the Labor Movement

December 2015June 2019 Lance Compa collective bargaining, Fall 2015, Labor, trade unions, unorganized workers, worker centers

Alarmed at declining union density and frustrated with the National Labor Relations Act, many worker advocates want to ditch the NLRA, forsake traditional unions, and start the labor movement afresh. But they should not let novelty overwhelm judgment. Many of these new ideas are clever in theory, but in practice…