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Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
Luce, Stephanie
Article
1998
IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideologica...
Living Wage Campaigns: Part I
Luce, Stephanie
Article
1998
ROBERT KUTTNER WROTE in a recent Washington Post op-ed that living wage campaigns are “the most interesting (and under-reported) grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement.”1
The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger: Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
Frank, Thomas
Article
2014
America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North...

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The Labor Party's Pittsburgh Convention
Hinshaw, John
1999
BETWEEN NOVEMBER 13-15 in Pittsburgh, over 1400 delegates from six national unions, over two hundred local unions and thirty-nine chapters of the Labor Party met for its first Constitutional Conventio...