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Gender & Sexual Identity Working-Class Voices 

Sex Work is Work

February 2019 Riley Renegade and Kressent Pottenger 0 Comments 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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Gender & Sexual Identity Organized Labor & Worker Organizing 

#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

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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

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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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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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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

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