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Welcome to our story hub—a place where every voice, experience, and perspective comes together. Here, you’ll find all the stories we’ve shared across the site, from inspiring journeys and insightful interviews to behind-the-scenes moments and community highlights. Whether you’re looking to catch up, explore something new, or simply get inspired, this is your gateway to everything we’ve been talking about.

  • Worker Rights Consortium Hiring for 2 Positions (Washington, DC)

    SENIOR WRITER The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is seeking a skilled writer and researcher, who will be responsible for producing an array of written materials integral to the organization’s labor rights work. These include detailed public reports of factory investigations, communications to brands and retailers pinpointing labor rights violations at their contract factories and pressing

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  • Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative Marks 3rd Anniversary

    The Murphy Institute is proud to have been affiliated with the great work of the cooperative network of NYC. With the support of the NY City Council, the City’s Small Business Services and the Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (WCBDI) we celebrate over 180 business entities helped through this initiative. With 13 local community based or business development organizations giving services,

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  • New Labor Forum Highlights: Jan 22nd, 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. The January 2018 issue of New Labor Forum, off press this week, grapples with perhaps the most perplexing of the 2016 election

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  • Dollars & Sense Seeks Co-editor (Boston, MA)

    We seek to hire a 32-hour-a-week Co-Editor for our small, 501c3 nonprofit publishing company.  Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc. publishes the 44-year-old economic justice magazine Dollars & Sense, the “Real World” series of college-level economics readers, the Dollars & Sense website, and two blogs. Our mission is to support social change by providing highly accessible reporting

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