organized labor
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SLU Professors Publish Annual State of the Unions Report
With the release of their annual report on the state of labor in the United States, SLU professors Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce have shown that organized labor remains far stronger in New York City and state than elsewhere in the nation — but that union erosion has also contributed disproportionately to low-wage job growth.…
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Labor Rights and College Education
This post was originally published at The Diamondback. Reposted with permission. By Olivia Delaplaine Top on the long list of worries for most graduating students is the prospect of finding a job. Each day a hiring manager doesn’t email us back or a website removes a job listing — and the looming anxiety of paying…
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Event: The Next Generation: Young Workers Building Movements (12/6)
Thursday, December 6th, 2018 6pm – 8pm ET CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10036 RSVP HERE Despite the recent weakness of the U.S. labor movement, young workers are invigorating unions and other working-class organizations throughout the country, showing the promise of a new broad-based…
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Millennials and the Labor Movement that Refuses to Die
This post was originally featured at Mobilizing Ideas. By Ruth Milkman Two years ago I focused my ASA Presidential address on social movements led by Millennials, building on Karl Mannheim’s classic treatise on “The Problem of Generations.” As the first generation of “digital natives,” and the one most directly impacted by the economic precarity that emerged from the…
