labor

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  7/8/19
  

  Japan, South Korea raise stakes in dispute over forced labor. History helps explain the conflict.

  The countries share a bitter history dating to Japan’s colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of “comfort women”, a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  6/12/19
  

  The Closure

  by Brendan O'Malley

  What happens when the college you work for closes? A first-hand account of the state of higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/6/19
  

  The myths behind the push to resurrect child labor

  by Oenone Kubie

  Why is there a significant push to resurrect child labor. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/1/19
  

  Why the Labor Movement Has Failed—And How to Fix It

  by Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, and Joseph A. McCartin

  The arc of the economic universe has bent badly toward injustice.

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• 4/14/19
  

  Teacher Pay, Presidential Politics, and New York’s Modest Proposal of 1818

  by Adam Laats

  When underpaid teachers threaten to walk away, school leaders have always considered desperate plans to fix desperate financial problems.

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• 1/5/19
  

  History in Crisis: 5 Challenges to Organizing Graduate Student Workers and 3 Ways to Still Succeed

  by HNN Staff

  What panelists at #AHA19 had to say graduate student labor and organizing on college campuses. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2-7-18 (accessed)
  

  Claim: Historians have got the demise of organized labor wrong

  Labor was militant in the 1970s despite George Meaney’s cozy relationship with Nixon, says historian Lane Windham.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-1-17
  

  How Labor Scholars Missed the Trump Revolt

  by Jefferson Cowie

  We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.

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• SOURCE: AHA Today
  12-27-16
  

  Pink-Collar Pain and Our New President

  by Katherine Turk

  American women should spotlight shared concerns and demand that Trump do much more for laborers than search for the blue collar jobs that were more likely automated than exported.

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• SOURCE: LAWCHA
  12-1-15
  

  Woodrow Wilson's other problem

  by Chad Pearson

  Three of his key supporters favored the open shop, the union-busting position of conservative business interests. 

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• 1-4-15
  

  Can You Have a Liberalism without Labor? (Video)

  by Nelson Lichtenstein

  We may be about to find out. 

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• What Happened to the Democratic Party? They Killed Santa Claus. (Video)

  by Rick Perlstein

  How the Democrats turned right and lost America. 

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• 10-25-14
  

  Review of Stanley Aronowitz's “The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement”

  by Robert Parmet

  Stanley Aronowitz is again challenging American workers to rethink their place in the economy.

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• SOURCE: Huff Post
  3-30-14
  

  New film about Cesar Chavez

  Many people thought Cesar Chavez was crazy to think he could build a union among migrant farmworkers.

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• Terrorism in the Workplace

  by David Patten

  Strikers in Ludlow, Colorado, 1914. Credit: Wiki Commons.In Bangladesh, more than six hundred workers died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza with hundreds more still missing and presumed dead. We must be shocked by this tragedy, but not at all surprised.

• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed.
  3-25-13
  

  Burton Bledstein's robo-skepticism

  ...If our destiny is to be freed from toil by robot helpers, what are we supposed to do with our days?To begin to tackle that existential question, I decided to invite along a scholar of work to the Automate trade show. And that's how my guest, Burton J. Bledstein, an expert on the history of professionalism and the growth of the modern middle class, got into an argument with the head of a robotics company.It happened at the booth for Adept Technology Inc., which makes a robot designed to roam the halls of hospitals and other facilities making deliveries. The latest model­—a foot-tall rolling platform that can be customized for a variety of tasks­—wandered around the booth, resembling something out of a Star Wars film except that it occasionally blasted techno music from its speakers. Bledstein was immediately wary of the contraption. The professor, who holds an emeritus position at the University of Illinois at Chicago, explained that he has an artificial hip and didn't want the robot to accidentally knock him down. He needn't have worried, though; the robot is designed to sense nearby objects and keep a safe distance....

• SOURCE: CityJ
  Winter 2013, Vol. 23. No. 1.
  

  The Pension Fund That Ate California

  After spending years dogged by unpaid debts, California labor leader Charles Valdes filed for bankruptcy in the 1990s—twice. At the same time, he held one of the most influential positions in the American financial system: chair of the investment committee for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, the nation’s largest pension fund for government workers. Valdes left the board in 2010 and now faces scrutiny for accepting gifts from another former board member, Alfred Villalobos—who, the state alleges, spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to influence how the fund invested its assets. Questioned by investigators about his dealings with Villalobos, Valdes invoked the Fifth Amendment 126 times....