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It’ll Take a Movement: Organizing at Amazon after Bessemer

August 2021September 2021 Sarah Jaffe amazon, bessemer, collective bargaining, unorganized workers, worker centers

The Amazon workers union election in Bessemer, Alabama was the most-covered union drive in many years. The New York Times

Precarious Work Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

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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Contingent Faculty of the World Unite! Organizing to Resist the Corporatization of Higher Education

April 2016June 2018 Malini Cadambi Daniel adjunct, collective bargaining, contingent workers, faculty, fair labor standards act, higher education, low wage, trade unions, Winter 2016, worker centers

The once hallowed and secure work life of American university faculty has for the past quarter century been in turmoil. Being a professor was once a respected, stable profession, but is now increasingly characterized by low pay, minimal benefits, and no job security.

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…

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