When the Home Is a Workplace
In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their.
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John Prine’s “Grandpa Was a Carpenter”
The great John Prine, a victim of the coronavirus last week, spent a career penning and performing songs about his own death, many.
- by Daniel Graff
- April 14, 2020
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Class, Capitalism, and Coronovirus at Disney’s Newest Attraction
Last week the Coronavirus forced Disney to announce that its American parks are now closed indefinitely, resulting in the longest interruptions of any.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- March 31, 2020
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Class and the Challenge of COVID-19
COVID-19, the coronavirus that is spreading across the world, is wreaking havoc on working people and their families. Weeks after it burst onto.
- by Joseph McCartin
- March 19, 2020
Book Roundtable
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Boris Roundtable: The Author Responds
A real pleasure of academic exchange is to engage with readers who “get” one’s book. In their distinct ways, Chaumtoli Huq, Sarah Lyons,.
- by Eileen Boris
- March 12, 2020
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Boris Roundtable: Building Bridges from Shared Experiences: Learning from Maria Mies and India’s Lace Makers’ Study
As a union researcher who uses participatory research methods, I was particularly interested in the chapter that discussed Maria Mies’s study of lace.
- by Sara Lyons
- March 11, 2020
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Boris Roundtable: Realizing the Global Labor Rights of Domestic and Rural Women Workers: Fight for Global Standards Must Continue at the Grassroots Level
Eileen Boris’ meticulously researched and detailed book, Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019, reveals some enduring.
- by Chaumtoli Huq
- March 10, 2020
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Boris Roundtable: From Othering to Inclusion
Eileen Boris details the history of how the International Labor Organization (ILO) moved from positioning the male industrial worker in imperial centers to.
- by Naomi R Williams
- March 9, 2020
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A Roundtable: Eileen Boris’ Making the Woman Worker
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we are pleased to host a roundtable discussion on Eileen Boris’ new book, Making the Woman Worker:.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- March 7, 2020
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The Labor Costs of Dual Enrollment Programs
The dual enrollment programs offered to cash-strapped students and parents imposes a specific labor burden on sometimes low-paid faculty. We need a solution.
- by Michael Reagan
- March 5, 2020