Wildcats against “Instructional Continuity”
Rent, utilities, groceries, loan repayments, shitty housing conditions, shitty landlords: these all continue as normal.
Tag: labor
A Black Class: Re-Learning Abolition in Higher Education Organizing
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to help set it in motion and watch it crash into the structures that for far too long have limited our vision of community to brutality and fear.
Strike For Trump’s Resignation
For my family, friends, and neighbors, survival means standing up and saying that the rich and powerful cannot steal our democracy.
#FightingForWright: Our Strike to Preserve the Academic Mission of Our University
The most gratifying and telling support that we received during the strike was from students.
Call for Contributors: Strike!: Labor Conflict in Higher Education
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our August 2019 issue, “Strike!: Labor Conflict in Higher Education”
Gone with the Wind: Tracing Agricultural Migrant Labor
Lange’s photographs can be considered “care work,” the devalued labor, integral to maintaining human life. By identifying the distress of migrant laborers’ lives, Lange indicated where care had lapsed.
Migration, Madness, and Labor in Postemancipation New Orleans
These scientific servants of elite interests created a vision of the migrant body that perfectly matched the ideal working body of slavery that must be kept at labor to avoid illness.
The Everglades Labor Camp and the Farmworkers’ Movement in Florida
In our current moment, as the Trump administration daily wields federal power to attack immigrant communities and workers’ rights, these kinds of community-driven struggles and organizations serve as a bulwark protecting families and empowering workers to make change where they live and work.
A Voice Not Heard at Home
To the present and past Mexican farmworker families of Tulare County: I write for you and walk alongside you. Mis vecinos, you are right. You belong here, just as your history of endurance and resilience belongs in our archives.
Call for Contributors: “Migrant: Unwaged Work in the U.S.”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our April 2019 issue, “Migrant: Unwaged Work in the U.S.”
