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Uneven Distribution: An Interview with Ned Rossiter

On logistics and mediated environments

May 31, 2019 • by Ned Rossiter and Kenneth Tay

This conversation with Ned Rossiter marks the second in a series of dialogues on the subject of logistics. In its simplest definition, we might say that logistics is the management of the flows and circulation of goods, ideas, and peoples -- with a typical emphasis placed on efficiency and optimization. ...

Uneven Distribution: An Interview with Ned Rossiter

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An Interview from a Women’s Shelter in Addis Ababa

The broker could’ve easily bought her a plane ticket directly to Tripoli, but then, of course, he wouldn’t have made as much money

May 6, 2019 • by Priya Singh

We are proud to introduce Huddled Masses, a journal of writing and arts on the themes of Migration and Mobility sponsored by the Zolberg Institute and published in partnership with Public Seminar. Our goal is to provide the middle ground, to bridge the gap between the academic journal and the news, to raise ...

An Interview from a Women’s Shelter in Addis Ababa

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In Defense of Do What You Love

Rejoining alienated critiques of capitalism

April 11, 2019 • by Patrick Sheehan

But where did this “most elegant anti-worker ideology,” as Tokumitsu calls it, come from? Tokumitsu suggests that it is a bourgeois culture foisted upon the working masses by the ruling class. One New York Times opinion piece credits “neoliberal masterminds,” while another points the finger at WeWork. What these critics agree on is that the ...

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Teacher Insurgency

What Are The Strategic Challenges?

February 23, 2019 • by Leo Casey

The following post was the basis for a talk by Leo Casey, the Executive Director of the Albert Shanker Institute, which was delivered at “The Future of American Labor” conference held February 8th and 9th in Washington, D.C. There is every reason to celebrate the “Teacher Spring” strikes of 2018 and the more ...

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Older Men’s Bargaining Power Hit by 36% Decrease in Job Tenure

2.9% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in December

January 5, 2019 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 2.9% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in December, which represents no change from November. Despite the low headline unemployment rate, changes in job tenure over the last 30 years have reduced older workers' bargaining power, especially older men. In 1987, the ...

Older Men’s Bargaining Power Hit by 36% Decrease in Job Tenure

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Student Workers Ratify A Strong Contract

Worker organizing holds The New School to its foundational values

December 6, 2018 • by Angela Butel

After more than fourteen months and 64 bargaining sessions, Student Employees at The New School -- United Automobile Workers (SENS-UAW), the union for academic student workers, has voted to ratify a contract with the New School administration. This hard-won agreement will provide substantial economic increases and important workplace protections and ...

Student Workers Ratify A Strong Contract

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Bitter Grapes

An excerpt from ‘We Are All Fast Food Workers Now’

October 18, 2018 • by Annelise Orleck

In We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now, Annelise Orleck traces a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe. Orleck illuminates globalization as seen through the eyes of worker-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting ...

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We Are All Fast Food Workers Now

An interview with Annelise Orleck

October 17, 2018 • by Annelise Orleck and Josh Maserow

In We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now, Annelise Orleck traces a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe. Orleck illuminates globalization as seen through the eyes of worker-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting ...

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Sabotage as Environmental Activism

Why sabotage of pipelines is a justifiable and effective form of resistance to capitalism and climate change

July 3, 2018 • by R. H. Lossin

--Henri Lefebvre, “Space: Social Product and Use Value” (1970) On July 23, 2017, two members of the Catholic Worker Movement, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya claimed responsibility for sabotaging construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in Iowa and parts of South Dakota. They had burned several pieces of heavy machinery ...

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The Scab

One who gives more value for the same price than another.

May 8, 2018 • by Jack London

"Such is the tangle of conflicting interests in a tooth-and-nail society that people cannot avoid being scabs, are often made so against their desires, and unconsciously" [Although the author of this paper has been chiefly known to the readers of the Atlantic as a writer of stories of the Klondike, he has given ...

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Why We Strike

An announcement from SENS-UAW Strike Committee

May 7, 2018 • by SENS-UAW Strike Committee

The New School administration has completely abandoned the progressive principles on which it was founded. Sidestepping demands from the community to declare The New School a sanctuary campus, the administration is engaging in widespread union-busting practices while shelling out millions for flagship buildings and fancy new fonts. With an ongoing ...

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The Origins of Mutuality

How worker co-operation has emerged and re-emerged over time in the City of London

April 27, 2018 • by Ed Mayo

Ask people what they appreciate about London, and money is outranked by the people, the culture, the opportunities and even the parks and green spaces. But when it comes to the City of London, all people remember is finance. My contribution is to unpick some of this association by telling a ...