Given that we claim to care for our children, enough for many of us to engage in systemic racism by moving to the suburbs for the schools or sending our kids to private schools if we stay in the city, helping to replicate generations of...
women and work
On November 27, 1937, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) debuted its play "Pins and Needles," which would become the longest running musical of the 1930s. This cultural form.
Yes, we know that it is a huge error to talk about the working class as if it were all white people. There's another huge error: talking about the working.
On October 31, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. An amendment to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the new law stated the pregnant workers "shall be treated the same for all employment-related purposes as other person not so affected,...
As I am desperately trying to write the draft of my book on strikes, one of the things I've had to sacrifice is writing book reviews here. They take too.
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Today’s post evaluates the impact of Title VII of the law. Title VII prohibited discrimination by covered.
On May 3, 1965, Gene Bernofsky, JoAnn Bernofsky, Richard Kallweit, and Clark Richart bought a 7-acre piece of land north of Trinidad, Colorado. This would become known as Drop City, among the first and most important of the countercultural communes that dotted the American landscape...
In all the debates about the global supply chain, perhaps the very laziest and self-serving arguments proponents of free trade make is that the workers overseas need to lobby their.
Because we are a deeply sexist society that has that sexism baked into the nation's core values. Women don't get paid less because they choose to, unlike what Carly Fiorina.
An interesting labor issue as Air France prepares to resume flights to Tehran. Will Air France female flight attendants and pilots be forced to wear headscarves as part of their uniform on the flight itself? They are saying no, Air France is saying yes: Flore...
Party on dude, it's Spring Break! Time to go to Florida, drink to oblivion, puke everywhere, and have some great stories to tell to our bros back home! But of.
Rep. Louise Slaughter on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership is another tool to exploit women: But something that has gone overlooked and under-discussed is the fact that the TPP will tie.