Labor
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New Labor Forum Highlights: April 30th, 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 wildly successful teachers’ strike in West Virginia earlier this spring has not only inspired walkouts in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado and…
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Prof. Ruth Milkman on Future Hindsight Podcast
Future Hindsight is a podcast hosted by Mila Atmos where civic engagement meets civil discourse. On last week’s show, Atmos interviewed Murphy Professor Ruth Milkman, where the two discussed the role of unions for workers, the main factors of de-unionization, and the potential leadership by millennials in this space. Listen here. [soundcloud url=”[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/436402932″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&visual=true”…
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TRADE UNIONS AND JUST TRANSITION: TUED WORKING PAPER #11
By Sean Sweeney and John Treat The concept of “Just Transition” has become increasingly in vogue in recent years in international political circles. While commonly ascribed to be “transformative” in potential, like any fashionable term it runs the risk of being emptied of content and coopted by arbiters of the status quo. So what really is…
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Unions, Collective Bargaining and Soccer Players
By Jay Youngdahl This June, the men’s World Cup will begin. Billions of people throughout the world will cheer their favorite team and players. Given the diverse nature of the Murphy Institute community, there will be cheerful disagreement as to which team is the best. However, in a special treat for soccer fans associated with…
