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Why Labor and Campus Organizing Are Not a Zero Sum Game
This post originally appeared at Waging Nonviolence. By Will Meyer Popular left magazines have recently published articles that pit campus organizing against labor organizing. The broad stroke thinking by Amber A’Lee Frost in The Baffler and Freddie DeBoer in Jacobin suggests campus politics isn’t going to win material gains and that serious leftists should wage strategic labor battles as opposed to
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The Urbanization of Trade Union Struggle and Strategy
By Ian Thomas MacDonald This is an abridged excerpt from Ian Thomas MacDonald’s new book, Unions and the City. Many in labor studies have come to see our cities and suburbs as great laboratories of labor renewal. The relevance of this perspective can be glimpsed in the importance of resisting the dismantling of public education to
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Introducing: 2017 Diversity Scholarship Recipients
In ceremonies held last month at the CUNY Graduate Center Elebash Recital Hall, a total of six students were awarded The Murphy Institute 2017 Diversity in Labor Scholarship. The scholarships are made possible through donations from unions, businesses, and individuals, along with a matching grant from the CUNY Chancellery. Get to know a bit about
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Sweden’s School Choice Disaster
By Dyckman Welcome Data suggests that public education is most effective when parents, teachers, students and school administrators collaborate to focus on the individual needs of a child. A one-size-fits-all model of educating and measuring student achievement works well for some children, but leaves others desperately seeking public education alternatives. One alternative to the current
