Tag Archives: workers' rights

Rethinking Work: service industry labor and the face of SEIU

This is not your daddy's organized labor.
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Rethinking Work: cooking as labor

Cooking, when it is glamorous and well-compensated, is something for men.
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Rethinking Work: art as labor

A survey noted that while 96% of U.S. respondents thought art was valuable, only 27% of them valued the artists who make it.
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Rethinking Work: sex work as labor

No one ever wanted to save me from being a waitress the way they wanted to save my best friend from being a stripper.
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On work: the peculiar state of the U.S. labor market, and more

“You should be grateful to have the job,” we hear, and we don't complain.
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Reconcile U.S. football culture with progressive politics? Yeah, right

Networks of conservative white men almost universally prefer other conservative white men as football head coaches.
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Obama, online organizing, FISA and the internet’s political future

Holding Obama to these promises will be the real challenge for progressives in the years to come. These supporter campaigns provide a window into the possibilities for continued progressive activism during the Obama presidency.
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