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SOURCE: Folklife
3/1/2021
“Making a Living by the Sweat of Her Brow”: Hazel Dickens and a Life of Work
by Emily Hilliard
"Hazel’s song catalog is often divided into separate categories of personal songs, women’s songs, and labor songs. But in her view and experience, these issues all bled together; her songs address struggle against any form of domination and oppression, whether of women, workers, or herself."
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2/23/2021
'We Deserve More': An Amazon Warehouse’s High-Stakes Union Drive
Historians Joseph McCartin, Michael Innis Jiménez, and Kerri Leigh Merritt discuss the historic union drive at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama center and where it fits in the history of labor and civil rights in the south.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/18/2021
‘There’s No Natural Dignity in Work’
by Ezra Klein
Is it time to revisit the basic premise of American welfare policies that encouraging or requiring paid labor is the best way to deal with poverty?
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SOURCE: Bartlett Annual Review
1/28/2021
How Will the Pandemic Shape the Future of Work?
by Judy Stephenson
The pandemic is exposing the historical contingency of "jobs" as opposed to "tasks" – as capital returns to a piecework model in the gig economy, the concept of job security is in danger of vanishing.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
1/26/2021
‘Despised’ Review: The Left and the Working Class
by Jonathan Rose
Historian Jonathan Rose reviews a book by British firefighter and "left conservative" Paul Embery which identifies the collapse of both working class communities and open debate in Britain as factors in the demise of Labour as a political force.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/14/2020
How Civilization Broke Our Brains
The anthropologist James Suzman's book evaluates the ravages of modern capitalist civilization – in particular, the institution of work – on individual and collective psychology.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/13/2020
‘Women’s Work’ Can No Longer Be Taken for Granted
New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/8//2020
The Meaning of Kamala Harris: The Woman who will Break New Ground as Vice-President
Kamala Harris will be the first woman and woman of color to hold the vice presidency. Her political past offers a complicated picture of the kinds of policies she's likely to advance in that role.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/5/2020
The Pandemic Is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out.
"For professors of all types, their responsibilities as teachers are causing many of them to feel pressed to meet the needs of the moment."
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SOURCE: Defense One
10/22/2020
‘Stunning’ Executive Order Enables Politicized Civil Service
Trump's executive order would make political loyalty, rather than expertise, experience or skill, the main criteria for retention in a new category of Federal jobs, potentially destabilizing the Federal civil service.
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SOURCE: Labor and Employment Law Daily
10/13/2020
Labor Pulse: Is This Election Labor's Last Chance?
by Jim Castagnera
The election presents organized labor with a choice between a death sentence and a reprieve that will prove temporary unless unions can put their needs at the center of a Biden presidency's priorities.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
10/4/2020
Coronavirus Can Afflict the Powerful. Yet Food Workers Remain the Most Vulnerable.
by Angela Stuesse
The rollback of workplace protections under a generation of conservative state and federal administrations has made low-wage service workers acutely vulnerable to COVID.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/23/2020
Why I Quit Academe for a Coding Boot Camp
by Zeb Larson
Delusions about the availability of "alt-ac" jobs for new humanities PhDs are stopping graduate students from making informed career choices and covering up the academic profession's failures to recognize and act on crisis.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
9/21/2020
Arbitrator Sides with U of Akron on Faculty Layoffs
Some of the terminated faculty members had since chosen to retire, but the result means that the 67 who did not will not be able to return to their jobs.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
9/22/2020
Trump Claims He’s Pro-Worker. But His Labor Board Is Trying to Destroy Worker Organizing.
by Paul Prescod
Donald Trump tries to portray himself as pro-worker. Nowhere is this absurdity better exposed than in the decisions of his National Labor Relations Board, which have over and over again favored bosses rather than workers.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
9/21/2020
Look What Has Been Taken From Black Americans
It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.
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SOURCE: Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
9/16/2020
State Auditor Investigating Ole Miss Professor Who Participated In Strike
A controversial sociologist at the University of Mississippi has drawn attention from the state auditor for participation in the #ScholarStrike protest movement.
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SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
9/7/2020
Rosie the Riveters gathered on Labor Day to Honor the Working Women of WWII
"The Rosies and veterans then told stories from the front lines. One Rosie said she was shocked at the idea of wearing pants to work. A veteran recalled being shot down from the sky in northern Italy and receiving notes from Rosies back home full of profanities toward Hitler."
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SOURCE: CNN
9/8/2020
Why We Started the #ScholarStrike
by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon
As American history shows, there are times where the most powerful way that workers can force an issue or work for change is to withhold what others see as their most important feature: their labor.
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SOURCE: Forbes
9/6/2020
Scholar Strike Forming On Social Media May Be Omen Of Things To Come
A social-media organized effort by professors represents a new effort to connect academic work to activism for justice.
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