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Stories

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.

  • 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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  • Why We Celebrate May Day as a Workers’ Holiday

    By Steve Brier One of the great ironies is that workers all over the world celebrate Labor Day on May 1st, not the first Monday in September, the way we do in the U.S. Most people assume the choice of May 1st has something to do with the former Soviet Union. They don’t realize that…

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  • Roe at Risk

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KcaDtjwOuY&w=560&h=315] This film was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue www.afj.org, 2013 A fifteen-minute film urges Americans to get involved to preserve a woman’s right to choose about abortion.

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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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