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New TUED Report: Pollution and Warming Are Fueling a Global Health Emergency
A new TUED Working Paper draws attention to the alarming implications for human health caused by pollution and by climate change, both of which are being made worse by the growing use of coal, oil, and gas. Authored by Svati Shah and Sean Sweeney, An Illness to One is the Concern of All presents the main findings…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: July 25th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched 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. Special Issue on the DNC & Philadelphia The DNC has begun! New Labor Forum is pleased to offer our readers…
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Nobody Leave Mid-Hudson Releases Just Utilities Report
A little over a year ago, this blog published an interview with members of Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson — a Poughkeepsie based nonprofit that has been organizing low-income communities in the fight for affordable utilities. Several weeks ago, Nobody Leave Mid-Hudson published a fantastic report called “Just Utilities: Organizing for Solutions to the Housing Energy Crisis.” The report draws on the experiences of…
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Street Vendors & the Battle to Do Business
By Sean Basinski Whether they are classified as traditional workers, independent contractors, or self-employed entrepreneurs, street vendors in recent years have been asserting their rights to a greater piece of the economic pie – or hot dog, as the case may be. This is happening on the global scale, as vendor and other informal sector…
