Labor
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Tom Cat Workers Resist
This article was originally featured at the Indypendent. By Astha Rajvanshi Workers at Tom Cat Bakery start kneading the day’s first loaves inside a Queens factory at 6 a.m. Soon after, the industrial-scale bakery begins delivering 400 varieties of baked goods to hotels, supermarkets, food chains and Starbucks locations across New York City. One of…
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May Day! May Day!
This International Workers’ Day, celebrate as workers have throughout history: take to the streets. For a guide to the marches, rallies, protest and strikes happening throughout New York City, hop over to Gothamist, where Emma Whitford has compiled an overview of the day’s events. Happy May Day! Photo by Wally Gobetz via flickr (CC-BY-NC-ND)
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Fall Graduate Class: Economic Democracy Against Economic Crisis
Taught by Evan Casper-Futterman With Guest Lectures by Dario Azzellini This class will be cross-listed in the Masters Programs of both Labor and Urban Studies. Speak to your adviser about registration. Monday nights at the Murphy Institute In the 1950s, labor unions claimed membership in 35% of the workforce. Today, density of labor unions outside of…
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“Salting” Built the Labor Movement—It Can Help Rebuild It, Too
This post was originally featured at Jacobin. By Erik Forman The Left has a long tradition of asking ourselves, “What is to be done?” Ever since Lenin posed this rhetorical question, it has served as the hook for an ever-expanding genre of think pieces and calls to action on every imaginable social-movement dilemma. “What is…
