Juan A. Zamarripa [E.]Sep 3, 2019

#LaborDay2019

"How well is the #USofA economy working for working people?

#EPI researchers reflect on the state of labor"

https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019

#Analysis #Economy #Politics #Society

via the #EconomicPolicyInstitute

Labor Day 2019 | How well is the American economy working for working people?: EPI researchers reflect on the state of labor in the United States

This Labor Day, EPI experts have contributed essays on remaining obstacles blocking workers looking for faster wage growth and greater economic opportunity. These essays look beyond the relatively happy news of low unemployment in the very recent past and focus instead on the deep-seated economic roots of workers’ disempowerment.

Economic Policy Institute
Solidarity [Mirrored]May 1, 2019

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On #WorkersDay, we highlight the work of #LGBTQ persons in labor movements. Up first, a book review in @[email protected] on "Queer Activism in the #LaborMovement," published by Miriam Frank and @[email protected] in 2014. https://solidarity-us.org/atc/174/p4338/. #LaborDay2019

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GenderSexLaw/status/1123607696803028994

Queer Activism in the Labor Movement

Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America By Miriam Frank Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014, 240 pages. $54.50 cloth. IN THE 1970s, Teresa Rankin kept her sexual orientation...

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