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Blue Collar: A 1978 Film for 2009

While catching up on my long-neglected film reading, I found this fascinating article by Saul Austerlitz about Paul Schrader’s debut film, Blue Collar, which stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and...

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Rumpus Round-Up: The Fight to Unionize a Bookstore

Late last month, employees of Book Culture, an independent New York City bookstore, voted to unionize. Five employees were promptly fired.Punitively firing employees who participate in labor unions...

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Adjunct Faculty Plan Walk Out

Adjunct college faculty are at last taking a stand against abominable work conditions and low pay by planning a national walk out on February 25, 2015. Unlike their tenured counterparts, adjuncts lack...

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Job Insecurity 101

At California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, adjunct faculty have been trying for two years to win their first union contract. They are part of the Service Employees International...

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Staff at McNally Jackson Bookstores, a mini-chain based in New York City, voted to unionize. Check out these four affordable indie bookstores in Louisville, Kentucky. Detroit has a new pop-up bookstore...

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Check out these author events from Independent Bookstore Day, now available online. Employee unions at independent bookstores are taking on new and important meaning for workers. A Romanian bookstore...

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Suffragette City: On the Delicacy and Charm of Women

  *** Biographical and source note: Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972) was union leader known for saying, “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her...

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