Organizing
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Deran Cadotte’s Story of Worker Victory!
Six years ago, Deran Cadotte was weighing his options for a degree in urban policy. He walked into The Murphy Institute (SLU’s predecessor) and met with June Cumberbatch, advisor to the Urban Studies BA Program and his decision was made. “I immediately felt at home,” Deran reports. In the fall of 2014, while working full-time,…
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Profs. Fox Piven and Bhargava on the Presidential Elections in the Intercept
The upcoming presidential elections could present a great test of American institutions. If the sitting US president loses the election and refuses to concede power — well, what happens? And how might he go about trying to pull it off? SLU professors Frances Fox Piven and Deepak Barghava tackled these questions in a recent article…
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Marketplace Features Prof. Milkman On Organizing During a Recession
The conventional wisdom states that recessions are terrible times to organize. During the Great Recession, union membership continued to decline, while public approval of unions reached a low. But, in a recent piece on APM’s Marketplace, Prof. Ruth Milkman explained that there’s an exception to this rule: But in this recession, we’ve lost three times as…
