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Street Vendors & the Battle to Do Business
By Sean Basinski Whether they are classified as traditional workers, independent contractors, or self-employed entrepreneurs, street vendors in recent years have been asserting their rights to a greater piece of the economic pie – or hot dog, as the case may be. This is happening on the global scale, as vendor and other informal sector
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Labor History: A Key to Making Bad Jobs Better
By Rebecca Lurie This summer, the Pinkerton Foundation released a new paper called “Make Bad Jobs Better: Forging a “Better Jobs” Strategy,” by Steven L. Dawson. Dawson argues that the tightening labor market and improving economy offer new opportunities for organizers, educators and workers to bargain harder and “make bad jobs better.” Here, Rebecca Lurie, Program
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New Labor Forum Highlights: July 11th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. The 2016 election season has simmered with both an inchoate and occasionally crystal clear sense that there is something intrinsically
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Dial-an-Organizer: Using Storytelling and Emotion to Build Movements
By Kressent Pottenger Imagine: you call a hotline to complain about how you were fired for being pregnant or harassed by your manager. On the other end, an operator gives you advice on organizing and labor law. It sounds unlikely today, but in the 1970s, a group of women clerical workers, frustrated with their treatment,
