Faculty Writing
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Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson: An Interview
By Kafui Attoh Something exciting is happening in Poughkeepsie. In the last two years a group of local residents — under the name “Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson” (NLMH) — have been organizing to fight for the rights of the city’s low-income residents. For those whose knowledge of Poughkeepsie begins and ends with “The French Connection,” Poughkeepsie…
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Dead Labor on a Dead Planet: The Inconvenient Truth of Workers’ Bladders
This article was originally featured in Monthly Review Zine. By Kafui Attoh “Once labor has been embodied in instruments of production and enters the further process of labor to play its role there, it may be called, following Marx, dead labor [. . .]. The ideal toward which capitalism strives is the domination of dead…
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Stephanie Luce on the Fight for a Living Wage
This past week, Murphy Institute Professor Stephanie Luce gave a talk at the James Connolly Forum on the fight for a living wage and the $15 minimum campaign. Couldn’t make it person? Catch the talk here: [youtube=http://youtu.be/QfrjZ1ezkaI] Stephanie Luce is an Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Murphy Institute.
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Votes, Banks, and Rock and Roll
By Joshua Freeman Two organizations that come from different eras and different universes have joined forces to register voters and promote political involvement among New Yorkers. On Monday, the Amalgamated Bank and Rock the Vote announced a partnership to register voters for the November election. The bank will distribute voter registration forms in its twenty…
