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B&H: Labor Exploiter?
This past Sunday, dozens of B&H workers publicly aired their grievances against their employer, the largest non-chain photo retailer in the country. Employees marched into the NYC store to deliver a letter and launch a campaign calling for the business to “fix dangerous workplace conditions, end discrimination against Latino employees, and stop wage theft at…
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From Sharing Economy to Shared Ownership
Want to go deeper on the world of sharing, cooperativism, and an internet economy that works for all of us? Head to the New School November 13-14th for Platform Cooperativism: a coming out party for the cooperative internet, co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute. Register here. In a new article over at FastCoexist (“The People’s Uber: Why…
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Debating Criminal Justice Reform
For more on this topic, join us at the Murphy Institute on October 19th for this month’s Labor Forum: Black Lives Matter & the Fight for Fifteen: A New Social Movement? When looking to reform our obviously broken criminal justice and carceral system, at what point must we examine the structural causes of urban crime? Can we…
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Introducing: The Murphy Institute Writing Center
Students at the Murphy Institute have always done a lot of writing, from the short “zaps” Professor Ed Ott assigns his labor studies M.A. students to the major research papers assigned in classes across Murphy’s programs. As of this fall, they now have a Writing Center to help with the writing process — a place where they can bring any…
