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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Call for Abstracts: Rethinking Working Class Self-Organization Beyond Unions, Parties, NGOs, and the State — Historical Materialism Journal

Call for Abstracts: Rethinking Working Class Self-Organization Beyond Unions, Parties, NGOs, and the State — Historical Materialism Journal | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The Journal of Labor & Society, in it’s 21st year, is issuing a call for the special issue “Workers Beyond Unions, Parties, NGOs, and the State?  to rethink how workers organize and struggle. Co-edited by Robert Ovetz, Ph.D., a political science lecturer San Jose State University, and Gifford Hartman, an independent San Francisco, USA based scholar, the issue seeks submissions from scholars, organizers, and activists critically reexamining the multiplicity of forms of class struggle outside of and inside unions, parties, NGOs, and the state happening around the world.

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â–¶ Puerto Rico: Labor and The Fight Against Neoliberalism and Colonialism Presentatio - YouTube

Javier Córdova is the President of the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors (A.P.P.U.) at the University of PR-Arecibo campus and also serves on A.P.P.U.’s national board and its Executive Committee. He is also leader of the Working Peoples’ Party. He spoke in San Francisco on July 25, 2015 on the economic crisis in Puerto Rico and the role of the US in pushing privatization and union busting.

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Why the Sharing Economy Is Hurting Workers and What We Can Do About It

Robert Reich explains how the sharing economy is hurting workers and what we can do about it.
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Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes

Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

"What I can't understand is, why aren't people rioting in the streets?" I hear this, now and then, from people of wealthy and powerful backgrounds. There is a kind of incredulity. "After all," the subtext seems to read, "we scream bloody murder when anyone so much as threatens our tax shelters; if someone were to go after my access to food or shelter, I'd sure as hell be burning banks and storming parliament. What's wrong with these people?"

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