NAFTA’s Long Shadow: Where immigration and economic policy meet
Congressional Democrats and Republicans regularly play the blame game about why there’s no immigration reform. But each party fails to point the finger.
OpEd
OpEd
The GOP Tax Bill Could Kill Two Birds with One Stone
Why doesn’t the GOP seem to care that its tax bill will drive up the deficit by $1.5 trillion? After all, for most.
- by Nancy MacLean
- January 8, 2018
Activism
OpEd
Don’t end DACA, pass comprehensive reform
In the summer of 2005, I was young undocumented immigrant, with little hope and few prospects for a dignified future. Having just graduated.
- by Eladio Bobadilla
- September 18, 2017
Labor History
OpEd
The media still gets the working class wrong — but not in the way you think.
This will be the first Labor Day since America rediscovered its working class — or, more accurately, one part of its working class..
- by Lane Windham
- September 11, 2017
Labor History
OpEd
Conor Casey and Evangeline Urcia on We Do the Work: Filipino American activist, poet, writer, and worker Carlos Bulosan
The latest episode of the Labor Archives of Washington’s regular segment on the KSVR radio show We Do the Work is now streaming.
- by Conor Casey
- June 2, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
OpEd
Podcast with Jen Klein: Fighting for graduate student unions at Yale
A group of Yale graduate students are protesting their labor conditions as teachers. They are demanding the administration recognize them as a union.
- by Jennifer Klein
- May 29, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
OpEd
Why Yale Graduate Students Are on a Hunger Strike, by Jennifer Klein, New York Times (May 9, 2017)
Two weeks ago, Yale graduate student teachers began a hunger strike to pressure the school to negotiate with their union. Eight committed to.
- by Jennifer Klein
- May 16, 2017
OpEd
From Pink Collars to Pink Hats: Working-Class Feminism and the Resistance
Today’s feminism has the power to change not just politics, but the nation’s economic landscape, too. Lane Windhamlwp.georgetown.edu/about/
- by Lane Windham
- April 1, 2017
OpEd
Nelson Lichtenstein, “No More Saturday Marches,” Jacobin
The brilliance of strikes and stoppages like the Day Without Immigrants and the Women’s Strike lies in organizers’ willingness to halt business as.
- by Nancy MacLean
- March 10, 2017
Articles
OpEd
“Bad Dudes”: Immigrants, Illegality, and Human Rights
By sweepingly associating immigrants who overstayed their visa or crossed the border improperly with criminal activity, the President built upon a long tradition.
- by Julie Greene
- February 27, 2017