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Sex Worker Rights Organizing As Social Movement Unionism: Responding To The Criminalization Of Work, Crystal A. Jackson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In a post-industrial, de-regulated economy, worker organizing is changing shape and function. While much research has focused on the decline of U.S. union organizing and the difficulty of organizing today's workers, a growing body of research on social movement unionism interrogates how "un-organizable" and "non-traditional" workers like day laborers and domestic workers are organizing. Yet sex worker activism in the U.S. is little studied, which is interesting given sex workers unique position as criminalized and contingent workers. Based on a two year ethnographic study from 2010 to 2012 of a national sex worker rights organization, the Desiree Alliance (DA), I …

Unfinished Business: Building Equality For Women In The Construction Trades, Susan Moir, Meryl Thomson, Christa Kelleher

Labor Resource Center Publications

This review and analysis of over one hundred and twenty published and unpublished sources on the unfinished business of increasing women’s participation in the construction workforce over the past thirty-plus years aims to:

• Provide a definitive assessment of the consistency of evidence on the daunting challenges facing women who seek to enter and advance in the construction workplace and
• Examine the failure of a critical social policy intended to address occupational segregation and ensure access to high-paying jobs to women.

Using the wide array of available sources, this report provides a historical overview of policy efforts to integrate women into …

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 80 (September 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 79 (August 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 78 (July 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 77 (June 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 76 (May 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 75 (April 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 74 (March 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 73 (February1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 72 (January 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 71 (December 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 70 (November 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 69 (October 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 68 (September 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 67 (August1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 66 (July 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 65 (June 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 64 (May 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 63 (April 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 61 (March 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 60 (February 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter (January 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter (December 1984), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter (November 1984), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter (October 1984), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter (September 1984), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter (August 1984), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter (July 1984), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter (June 1984), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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