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Backstage with a Makeup Artist

January 2021January 2021 Kressent Pottenger 0 Comments austerity, Labor, racism, social welfare, trade unions, unemployment, union democracy, women workers, working class

Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Cynthia O’Rourke, a makeup artist and member

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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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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

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

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#MeToo Inside the Labor Movement

January 2019February 2019 Ana Avendaño collective bargaining, equality, gender discrimination, Labor, racism, trade unions, union democracy, women workers, working class

The #MeToo movement represents an opportunity for the labor movement to authentically connect to the experiences of women in all

Gender & Sexual Identity Working-Class Voices

Motherwork Is Work: A Welfare Warrior Speaks

September 2018February 2019 Pat Gowens and Kressent Pottenger austerity, poverty, social welfare, unemployment, women workers, working class

I raised three sons as a single mom on welfare when they were very young, and then again when they

“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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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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FEMINISM AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT: A Century of Collaboration and Conflict

January 2011April 2018 Eileen Boris and Annelise Orleck feminism, labor feminists, Winter 2011, women workers

A century after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, women have become nearly half of the unionized labor force. They work in