OpEd
OpEd

Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Revaluing the Labor of Care”

They were to be neither nurses nor maids, but front-line careworkers whose efforts allowed frail elderly and disabled people to remain at home..

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Emily Twarog, “Today’s workers need better deal,” Chicago Sun-Times OpEd

I worked in the food service for a total of 15 years, in every possible job classification. During that time, I worked at.

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Anna Lane Windham, “Detroit, Labor Day and a Hard Day’s Night”

The Beatles first visited Detroit just before Labor Day in 1964, and they gushed with admiration for the Motown sound. Detroit hummed with.

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Martin J. Bennett, “AB 10: Time is Ripe for California to Raise the Minimum Wage”

The New York Times recently characterized the economic recovery that officially began in 2009 as a “golden era for corporate profits.” Indeed, corporate.

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Michael Honey, “Decent Jobs, Housing, and Education: MLK’s Still Elusive Dream”

A quarter of a million people rallied “For Jobs and Freedom” at the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, and.

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LAWCHA OpEd

How AIDS Changed Everything Recap, 2013 LAWCHA Conference

It’s all too rare that we examine HIV/AIDS and LGBT experiences through the lens of class. Jim Hubbard, Miriam Frank and I took.

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LAWCHA OpEd

Cindy Hahamovitch, “The Lessons of Belle Glade,” NYT OpEd

IN 1965, the secretary of labor, Willard Wirtz, stood under a porch light in Belle Glade, Fla., facing a crowd of guest workers.

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LAWCHA OpEd

Lisa Levenstein, “Public Deserves to be Heard on Abortion Bill,” News & Record OpEd

Proposed new regulations on abortion providers have nothing to do with protecting women’s health. Nothing demonstrates this quite like the tactics Republican leaders.

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