January 2021
- Professor Deepak Bhargava has written a moving piece on Medium about the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla and how Trump’s hate speech for the past four years ignited this death, the Jan. 6th insurrection (and so much more). Read Here.
- Jeremy Blasi and Samir Sonti, “Private Equity, Human Rights Due Diligence, and Global Labour Rights: The Case of ‘Hotel California,’” The Global Labour Rights Reporter 1, no. 1 (2021): 44-48.
- Stephanie Luce, “Building Class Power by Fighting for the Common Good,” Organizing Upgrade, Jan 6, 2021.
- Listen to Professor Mimi Abramovitz, on the podcast. “Social Security for Everyone: Mimi Abramovitz on “The Thought Project.” CUNY Graduate Center,
- Kressent Pottenger, “Backstage with a Makeup Artist,” New Labor Forum, Jan 2021
December 2020
- Sean Sweeney, “Five Years On, the Paris Climate Agreement Needs an Overhaul,” New Labor Forum, Dec, 2020,
- Professor Deepak Bhargava, has written “Of Ducks and Democracy”, for The Forge. December 8, 2020.
- In a new study published by @FISOnline, Mimi Abramovitz and Richard Smith analyze historical federal #housing policy in the US. They found residential segregation remained higher in 2010 than in 1940. Their study underscores the urgency for advocate to mobilize for more just social polices. Free to access through Open Access. “The Persistence of Residential Segregation by Race, 1940 to 2010: The Role of Federal Housing Policy Families in Society”
- Ruth Milkman, Luke Elliott-Negri, Kathleen Griesbach and Adam Reich write. “Gender, Class, and the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform- Based Food Delivery.” Critical Sociology 1-16.
- Listen to Michelle Chen Belabored podcast (Dissent magazine)“Labor at the Ballot Box”. Including an interview with Stephanie Luce.
- Read Sean Sweeney “Five Years On, the Paris Climate Agreement Needs an Overhaul.” New Labor Forum
- Read Marc Kagan’s “More Austerity Coming? Lessons from New York’s 1970s Fiscal Crisis.” in the New Labor Forum.
- Professor Andy Sparberg was quoted in Newsday about his work at LIRR.
November 2020
- Read H. Jacob Carlson and Gianpaolo Baiocchi, “The Case for a Social Housing Authority”, Nov. 2020,
- Read Professor Samir Sonti, “Philadelphia’s Election Results Are a Warning to the Democratic Party,” The New Republic. Nov 13
- Professor Stephanie Luce says it’s imperative for the New York State Senate to press on millionaire tax ideas. Read about it here.
- In “Coalition and Confrontation: A Response to Jared Abbott,” Luke Elliott-Negri pushes back against Abbott’s analysis of Democratic “coalition strategy” and a “confrontation strategy.” Read it here in Organizing Upgrade.
- Ruth Milkman has published “Old wine in new bottles: gender and the gig economy” about her study (along with Luke Elliott-Negri, Kathleen Griesbach, and Adam Reich) of the platform-based food economy, which had an explosion in demand when COVID-19 hit. She found that the majority of the workers were white women, and describes the “class-gender nexus” of this element of the gig economy. Read about it in WorkinProgress.
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Stephanie Luce writes about organizing in the labor movement to defend democracy in the event of a contested election. She notes that some unions are trying to connect their core activists with local “protect the vote” groupings in key states and cities to show up to polls and fight to make sure every vote is counted. Read it here in Organizing Upgrade.
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In this piece from Organizing Work, Marianne Garneau debates with labor organizer and journalist Chris Brooks and veteran union negotiator Joe Burns about Bargaining for the Common Good and its use as a model for connecting workplace fights with broader social demands. Read part one and part two here.
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In “How Does the Past Look From Here? Notes from a historian” Joshua Freeman compares today’s pandemic and politics to the events preceding and following the flu epidemic of 1918, and argues that this time, the yearning for a return to “normality” may be misplaced. Read it here in Moyers on Democracy.
- Deepak Bhargava discussed economic, racial and immigrant justice with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal in the latest installment of SLU’s ongoing series “COVID Capitalism. Watch it.
October 2020
- In Work in Progress, Ruth Milkman talks about how her research came to reveal that working-class women dominate the sector of the gig economy. Old wine in new bottles: gender and the gig economy
- Josh Freeman, “How Does the Past Look From Here? Notes from a historian.” Moyers on Democracy.
https://billmoyers.com/story/how-does-the-past-look-from-here/
- Deepak Bhargava talks with Mike Gilliam of Mike Gilliam: Let It Rip to examine the Presidential election.
September 2020
- H. Jacob Carlson, “Measuring Displacement: Assessing Proxies for Involuntary Residential Mobility,” City & Community, Sept 2020,
- Luke Elliott-Negri, “Coalition and Confrontation: A Response to Jared Abbott,” Organizing Upgrade
https://organizingupgrade.com/coalition-and-confrontation-a-response-to-jared-abbott/
- Mimi Abramovitz and Deepak Bhargava on how the pandemic has exposed the systemic failures of America’s inadequate welfare state, in Social Security for All.
- Mimi Abramovitz, Deepak Bhargava and Tammy Thomas Miles penned this piece in the Nation, The US Safety Net is Degrading by Design – focusing on the inadequacies of the social safety net.
- Marianne (Garneau) LeNabat, “A History of the IWW’s Organizer Training Program,” Organizing Work.
- Marianne (Garneau) LeNabat and Lexi Owens, “Between Schylla and Charybdis,” Organizing Work.
- Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce, The State of the Unions 2020: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the US
- An interview with Mimi Abramovitz and Jennifer Zelnick was the lead article in the 9-2-20 issue of the NYN Media an online newspaper. The article The drawbacks of treating social work like a business is based findings of their research published in the August 2020 Issue of Social Work.
- Jennifer Zelnick and Mimi Abramovitz ( 2020). “The Perils of Privatization: Bringing the Business Model into the Human Services” Social Work. August, 2020
- Josh Freeman, “New York Socialists in the Legislature—and Out,”
- Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce are quoted in this piece, Report: 20% of Union Member Got Sick of Lost Jobs Due to Virus, which takes a closer look at the impact of COVID-19 on union workers.
- Ruth Milkman has also penned this piece in the Gotham Gazette entitled, “On Labor Day, New Reason Not to Fall for Trump’s Immigrant Threat Narrative.”
- Mimi Abramowitz and Steve Fraser have a chapter in An Inheritance for Our Times: Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism, edited by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker and Michael J. Thompson (O/R Books, 2020)
August 2020
- Kafui Attoh has co-authored “‘Just-in-Place’ labor: Driver organizing in the Uber workplace” in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. In this scholarly paper, Kafui and his co-authors, Katie J. Wells and Declan Cullen, posit that that Uber’s attempts to keep its workers “just-in-place,” which generally isolate and disempower drivers, can actually enable new modes of organization. Read it here.
- Steve Brier and Michael Fabricant co-authored a piece in the Gothan Gazette entitled “Racialized Austerity: The Case of CUNY” in which they chronicle the steady erosion of public funding for higher education from the New York State and City government, and how it has affected CUNY.
- Marianne LeNabat authored “Bargaining for the Common Good in the Coronavirus Era” for Organizing Work.(under the pen name Marianne Garneau).
- Andrew Sparburg, who teaches regularly in SLU’s transit program, wrote about the Queensboro Bridge, which appeared in the daily blog of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society. Read it here.
- Sean Sweeney has a new piece that is co-published by Jacobin and New Labor Forum, entitled “There May Be No Choice but to Nationalize Oil and Gas — and Renewables, Too.” Read it here.
- A moving piece from The New Yorker featuring an SLU alum, MTA bus driver Terence Layne, in which he mentions taking Andy Sparberg’s class on the history of transit. Read “A Transit Worker’s Survival Story.”.
July 2020
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An article in the latest edition of New Labor Forum takes a look inside an Amazon fulfillment center. Get a firsthand view how workers are handling the pandemic, worker safety and organizing themselves in the demanding environment of a booming business.
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Stephanie Luce authored two articles: one in LaborNotes on workers and housing, and another in Portside on how unions are organizing for racial justice.
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Gladys Palma de Shrynemakers is co-hosting Next Gen Assessment: A Series for Educators Transitioning Online for the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU). This is an ongoing series of blog posts complemented by brief video discussions designed to help educators exchange information about assessment challenges and emerging best practices in digital delivery.
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Newly appointed Assistant Professor of Labor Studies Joel Suarez discusses two recent books about anti-immigrant sentiment in an article entitled “The Nativist Tradition” in Dissent magazine.
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David Unger has authored a piece on police unions and the Black Lives Matter movement for the fall issue of New Labor Forum, which has been released early due to its timeliness. Read it here.
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Sofya Aptekar, Associate Professor of Urban Studies, co-authored an article with Shannon Gleeson titled, “All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship—Not Just ‘Essential Workers’.” https://inthesetimes.com/article/undocumented-immigrants-citizenship-essential-workers-covid-19
June 2020
- Mike Menser, has a piece out in Non-Profit Quarterly on how the call to “defund the police” is not just a call to transform policing and rethink “safety,” but also a call to transform budgeting. Read it here.
- Professor Kafui Attoh writes an important op-ed “Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Mass-Transit Policing“
- Stephanie Luce and SLU M.A. Graduate Student Haley Shaffer co-wrote a white paper “Digital Media Rising – 5 Years of organizing Digital Media” that takes a look at the Writers Guild of America, East and their efforts to organize for better pay and workplaces for Digital media Workers.
Archive
- December 11, 2019 – CUNY SLU Professor Ruth Milkman talks to Teen Vogue about workers rights to unionize https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-know-rights-union
- August 12, 2019 – CUNY SLU Graduate Student Bob Master Speaks with Jacobin Magazine about Rebuilding the Labor Movement https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/labor-movement-bob-master-communications-workers-america-strike?fbclid=IwAR0nSIEIsWIDxjEyT9TDq0j1jD4Frzu4rD4e0U5tHdC1d_4nVEbe6LIljH0
- August 1, 2019 – Rally at East Meadow Best Market Targets Gender Equity Issues https://www.newsday.com/business/best-market-workers-inequality-rally-1.34523284
- June 30, 2019 – CUNY SLU Graduate Nicolas Pineda Featured on DC 37 Radio http://www.dc37.net/news/radioshows/radioshows
- June 25, 2019 – CUNY Labor School Advances Worker Careers and Solidarity https://dc37blog.wordpress.com/2019/06/25/cuny-labor-school-advances-worker-careers-and-solidarity/
- June 24, 2019 – School of Labor and Urban Studies Marks Freshman Year ‘Successful’ https://thechiefleader.com/news/news_of_the_week/school-of-labor-and-urban-studies-marks-freshman-year-successful/article_62563b26-935d-11e9-b9dd-13904a493215.html
- June 10, 2019 – CUNY SLU Professor Stephanie Luce Sits Down With Sheryl McCarthy of CUNY TV to Discuss the State of Labor Unions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2xWDqaAKTc
- May 9, 2019 – CUNY SLU Faculty Frances Fox Piven Has Become the Intellectual Guru of Activist Progressives https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/nyregion/frances-fox-piven-democratic-socialism.html