Labor Studies
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“Salting” Built the Labor Movement—It Can Help Rebuild It, Too
This post was originally featured at Jacobin. By Erik Forman The Left has a long tradition of asking ourselves, “What is to be done?” Ever since Lenin posed this rhetorical question, it has served as the hook for an ever-expanding genre of think pieces and calls to action on every imaginable social-movement dilemma. “What is
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After “Vigorous” Resistance Campaign, Andrew Puzder Withdraws
Yesterday afternoon, fast-food executive Andrew Puzder announced that he would be withdrawing his nomination to be the next US labor secretary. This came on the heels of last week’s announcement that Puzder was being sued via class-action lawsuit for an illegal wage-fixing scheme at his Carl’s Jr. restaurants. Of course, as David Dayen reported in
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Avoiding Concessions Under Trump
In a recent In These Times article (When Raising the Minimum Wage is a Bad Thing), Murphy Prof. Stephanie Luce and Jen Kern warn of the perils of conceding ground on minimum wage in the name of short term gains: First, we cannot accept short-term gains in the form of a higher wage if they mean concessions
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From Taxi Workers to Yemeni Bodega Owners: Labor Resists the Immigration Ban
Since the Trump administration’s immigration ban was issued last Friday night barring entry to the United States for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, protests have erupted at airports and in cities across the United States. Demonstrators are loudly showing their rejection of the xenophobia, racism and bigotry inherent in the ban’s sweeping impact and disregard
