New Labor Forum
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Faculty of the World, Unite?
Penny Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at The Murphy Institute Years of organizing, agitating, occupying and strategizing have brought the issue of low wage and precarious work to the forefront of contemporary economic discussion. Fast food and retail are not the only sectors where such low wage work has become the norm:
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Children of the Jacaranda Tree
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue By Sahar Delijani Atria, 2013 The author was born in 1983 in a prison in Iran where her parents were jailed for their political activities. In this can’t-put-it-down novel, she tells the story of several families who lived through and emerged from
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Paul Robeson: A Watched Man
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue By Jordan Goodman Verso, 2013 The famous African-American singer and actor became a leading voice for civil rights at home and abroad in the 1930s and beyond. This biography draws on internal government archives to focus on harassment and repression waged against
