Can you imagine a country where education is not a human right but a commodity to be bought and sold using debt? Yes, well America is one such country; there are many, many others (http://sinche.uom.gr/sites/default/files/proj15_ziderman.pdf). With for profit prisons, for profit medical care and for profit, well, for-profit everything when it comes to declaring independence […]
Athough many people still work in offices and in factories this is all changing rapidly and at speeds never before seen. The forces of production, such as technology, are now displacing workers with increased rapidity and accelerated madness that if continued, will leave many more unemployed, disposable and on the margins of survival. According to […]
From Labor Notes December 10, 2012 / Anna Kurhajec Learning from those who build movements is crucial! In this article Anna Kurhajec tells the story of such movement building and what we might learn. Danny Weil Union members in Illinois joined with a local organization to oppose a jail expansion. They’ve discovered that solidarity with […]
When the Occupy movement injected ideas about general strikes and economic inequality into public conversation, these concepts were news for many people. But in San Francisco in 1934, and in Oakland in 1946, the General Strike wasn’t a concept or a goal: it happened. In “California Labor History,” a three unit San Francisco City College […]