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Class and the Challenge of COVID-19

Get PDF of this article COVID-19, the coronavirus that is spreading across the world, is wreaking havoc on working people and their families.  Weeks after it burst onto the world...

Boris Roundtable: The Author Responds

Get PDF of this article A real pleasure of academic exchange is to engage with readers who “get” one’s book. In their distinct ways, Chaumtoli Huq, Sarah Lyons, Katherine Turk,...

Boris Roundtable: Building Bridges from Shared Experiences: Learning from Maria Mies and India’s Lace Makers’ Study

Get PDF of this article As a union researcher who uses participatory research methods, I was particularly interested in the chapter that discussed Maria Mies’s study of lace makers in...

Boris Roundtable: Realizing the Global Labor Rights of Domestic and Rural Women Workers: Fight for Global Standards Must Continue at the Grassroots Level

Get PDF of this article Eileen Boris’ meticulously researched and detailed book, Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019, reveals some enduring challenges for...

Boris Roundtable: From Othering to Inclusion

Get PDF of this article Eileen Boris details the history of how the International Labor Organization (ILO) moved from positioning the male industrial worker in imperial centers to acknowledging the...

A Roundtable: Eileen Boris’ Making the Woman Worker

Get PDF of this article As we celebrate International Women’s Day, we are pleased to host a roundtable discussion on Eileen Boris’ new book, Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor...