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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/14/2020
  

  How Civilization Broke Our Brains

  The anthropologist James Suzman's book evaluates the ravages of modern capitalist civilization – in particular, the institution of work –  on individual and collective psychology. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/13/2020
  

  ‘Women’s Work’ Can No Longer Be Taken for Granted

  New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/8//2020
  

  The Meaning of Kamala Harris: The Woman who will Break New Ground as Vice-President

  Kamala Harris will be the first woman and woman of color to hold the vice presidency. Her political past offers a complicated picture of the kinds of policies she's likely to advance in that role. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/5/2020
  

  The Pandemic Is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out.

  "For professors of all types, their responsibilities as teachers are causing many of them to feel pressed to meet the needs of the moment."

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• SOURCE: Defense One
  10/22/2020
  

  ‘Stunning’ Executive Order Enables Politicized Civil Service

  Trump's executive order would make political loyalty, rather than expertise, experience or skill, the main criteria for retention in a new category of Federal jobs, potentially destabilizing the Federal civil service. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Employment Law Daily
  10/13/2020
  

  Labor Pulse: Is This Election Labor's Last Chance?

  by Jim Castagnera

  The election presents organized labor with a choice between a death sentence and a reprieve that will prove temporary unless unions can put their needs at the center of a Biden presidency's priorities. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/4/2020
  

  Coronavirus Can Afflict the Powerful. Yet Food Workers Remain the Most Vulnerable.

  by Angela Stuesse

  The rollback of workplace protections under a generation of conservative state and federal administrations has made low-wage service workers acutely vulnerable to COVID. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/23/2020
  

  Why I Quit Academe for a Coding Boot Camp

  by Zeb Larson

  Delusions about the availability of "alt-ac" jobs for new humanities PhDs are stopping graduate students from making informed career choices and covering up the academic profession's failures to recognize and act on crisis. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/21/2020
  

  Arbitrator Sides with U of Akron on Faculty Layoffs

  Some of the terminated faculty members had since chosen to retire, but the result means that the 67 who did not will not be able to return to their jobs.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9/22/2020
  

  Trump Claims He’s Pro-Worker. But His Labor Board Is Trying to Destroy Worker Organizing.

  by Paul Prescod

  Donald Trump tries to portray himself as pro-worker. Nowhere is this absurdity better exposed than in the decisions of his National Labor Relations Board, which have over and over again favored bosses rather than workers.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/21/2020
  

  Look What Has Been Taken From Black Americans

  It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
  9/16/2020
  

  State Auditor Investigating Ole Miss Professor Who Participated In Strike

  A controversial sociologist at the University of Mississippi has drawn attention from the state auditor for participation in the #ScholarStrike protest movement. 

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• SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
  9/7/2020
  

  Rosie the Riveters gathered on Labor Day to Honor the Working Women of WWII

  "The Rosies and veterans then told stories from the front lines. One Rosie said she was shocked at the idea of wearing pants to work. A veteran recalled being shot down from the sky in northern Italy and receiving notes from Rosies back home full of profanities toward Hitler."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/8/2020
  

  Why We Started the #ScholarStrike

  by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon

  As American history shows, there are times where the most powerful way that workers can force an issue or work for change is to withhold what others see as their most important feature: their labor.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  9/6/2020
  

  Scholar Strike Forming On Social Media May Be Omen Of Things To Come

  A social-media organized effort by professors represents a new effort to connect academic work to activism for justice. 

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• 9/6/2020
  

  On Labor Day, Think of Bread and Roses

  by William Lambers

  On Labor Day, remember the demands of striking textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Working people deserve more than bare subsistence; they're entitled to dignity and pleasure too.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/2/2020
  

  What Liberals Get Wrong About Work

  by Michael J. Sandel

  Michael Young, who coined the term meritocracy in the late 1950s—and who used it as a pejorative—observed four decades later: “It is hard indeed in a society that makes so much of merit to be judged as having none. No underclass has ever been left as morally naked as that.”

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  9/2/2020
  

  Looking Out For Each Other

  by Leah Valtin-Erwin

  The wrenching transitions that East Germans faced in adapting to western commercial culture after reunification offer lessons for the COVID crisis, and a warning that the burdens of managing social change and stress often fall on retail workers. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/26/2020
  

  Will Covid-19 Revive Faculty Power?

  Will the COVID crisis be the moment that seals the power of trustees, donors and administrators over universities organized like corporations, or will faculty organize to reassert shared governance?

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/31/2020
  

  Black Americans Worry Postal Changes Could Disrupt History Of Secure Jobs

  Historian Philip Rubio comments on the historic importance of public employment, especially in the postal service, for Black Americans to avoid hiring discrimination and achieve economic security--gains threatened by plans to privatize the Post Office.