Why Yale Graduate Students Are on a Hunger Strike, by Jennifer Klein, New York Times (May 9, 2017)
Two weeks ago, Yale graduate student teachers began a hunger strike to pressure the school to negotiate with their union. Eight committed to.
In Memoriam
Judith Stein, 1940-2017
It is with a heavy heart that I forward the news that Judith Stein has passed away after a long struggle with cancer..
- by James Gregory
- May 16, 2017
LAWCHA
Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?
I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services.
- by Sarah Attfield
- May 15, 2017
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Collection Spotlight: Collective Bargaining Agreements Online
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in Cornell University’s ILR School is pleased to announce the digitization of over 2800 collective.
- by Kheel Center
- May 9, 2017
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Mr. Trump and the Super-Person Tax Rate
Working people who felt forgotten or ignored by the government voted for a change. What used to be a fairly solid voting block.
- by David Obringer
- May 9, 2017
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Find and Follow Your North Star
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad has now won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction, and it’s a fitting choice.
- by Daniel Graff
- April 25, 2017
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African Labor Migrants, Discrimination, and Xenophobia
Seventeen years ago, Chris Muwani migrated from Zimbabwe to South Africa, where he works on a tomato farm. If he does not fulfill.
- by Tula Connell
- April 21, 2017
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The Working Class at the Oscars
A scene in Denzel Washington’s movie of Fences is not in August Wilson’s original play, and it illustrates how a spate of Oscar-nominated.
- by Jack Metzgar
- April 15, 2017
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The South has Risen Again
Over 150 years ago Abraham Lincoln warned northerners that southern slaveowners and their advocates hoped to do more than expand slavery westward —.
- by Daniel Graff
- April 14, 2017
OpEd
From Pink Collars to Pink Hats: Working-Class Feminism and the Resistance
Today’s feminism has the power to change not just politics, but the nation’s economic landscape, too. Lane Windhamlwp.georgetown.edu/about/
- by Lane Windham
- April 1, 2017