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New Labor Forum Highlights: March 5th, 2018
The New Labor Forum has 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. Recently released figures for 2017 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal a reversal in the decades-long decline in unionization
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Stephanie Luce Interviews Annelise Orleck for Jacobin
With Janus placing public sector unions on the chopping block while West Virginia teachers stage a wildcat strike for their rights, what’s the right way to feel about the future of labor? Is the picture as bleak as we’ve been made to think, or might there be glimmers of hope portending a brighter future ahead? Murphy
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Event: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (3/7)
Wednesday, March 7th , 2018 12 pm-1pm The Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., New York, NY Room 18A The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the
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