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Stephanie Luce: The Coronavirus Crisis Exposes How Fragile Capitalism Already Was
With various states moving to “re-open” the economy and bring things “back to normal,” it benefits us to look at what we might return to — and how the conditions we’ve come to accept as “normal” played such a significant role in getting us to the current crisis. In Labor Notes last month, SLU professor…
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New Labor Forum Highlights for May 2020
As the impact of the coronavirus continues to sweep across the country, the long-term failures of capitalism are in stark view. Yet socialism—as both a critique of capitalism and an alternative political and economic system—has until recently remained outside the narrow limits of U.S. electoral politics. Well before the anti-communist fervor of the Cold War,…
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Pathways Fellowship, NYC
Apply to Pathways Fellowship Why Diversifying NYC’s Teacher Workforce Matters Male students of color make up 43% of NYC’s public school demographic, yet Black, Latino and Asian men make up only 8% of NYC’s teacher workforce. While great teachers undoubtedly come from all backgrounds, and a person’s race is certainly not a prerequisite for being…
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SLU Alum Nastaran Mohit in Teen Vogue
To get more people organizing labor, more people need to know what organizers actually do. Which is why we were thrilled to see Teen Vogue feature a day in the life of Nastaran Mohit: labor champion, current organizing director of the NewsGuild of New York — and SLU alum. From the article: It’s a tough time to…
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