Category Archives: Labor

The Devastating Disconnect Between Rich and Poor

Posted on February 12, 2012 by ublawguest

Posted by Lisa R. Pruitt The Occupy Wall Street movement has recently drawn national attention to economic inequality, and several new studies and a book just published also invite us to consider the acuteness of this inequality, as well as … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers and Participation in ClassCrits V: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream

Posted on January 20, 2012 by ublawguest

This workshop, the fifth meeting of ClassCrits, takes on class and the American dream as its theme. The most quintessentially American trait may be our capacity to look past current misfortune and imagine a brighter future.  Americans love a “rags … Continue reading →

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Class as a Category of Inequality and Vulnerability

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Martha McCluskey

How does economic class complicate questions of vulnerability, identity and equality?  This question was one of many rich threads of discussion at a recent Emory Law School workshop of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project and Vulnerability and Human Condition … Continue reading →

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Black Folks to Plantations! Mexicans go Home!: The 14th Amendment under Siege

Posted on March 18, 2011 by admutua

It appears the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution is under siege. On the day I prepared to discuss the drafting and eventual passing of the 14th Amendment in my legal history course on the Reconstruction era at University at … Continue reading →

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Privacy as Misdirection

Posted on February 13, 2011 by James G. Milles

The story of Ashley Paine, the 24-year-old high school teacher in Georgia who was fired in August 2009 for drinking a Guinness on a vacation in Dublin, is making the rounds again. It is typically told as a story of … Continue reading →

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No Professor Is an Island (Or, Corporatization as Climate Change)

Posted on February 1, 2011 by aharris175

My friend Hannah is a single mom with a degree in art history and two kids in college. She used to have a full-time job as a slide librarian at Mills College in Oakland, till the college, under financial strain, … Continue reading →

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Ellen Dannin on the Value of Unions

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Martha McCluskey

Countering the recent onslaught of popular culture and politics blaming unions for a host of financial and social problems, Penn State Law Professor Ellen Dannin has a useful post on Truthout:  Corporations, Unions and the Value of Opposition.  See also … Continue reading →

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Professing Passivity in AALS Class Conflict

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Martha McCluskey

Why did law faculty delegates to the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) House of Representatives vote to defeat a non-binding resolution to relocate meetings in the event of labor disputes? The resolution aimed to encourage AALS staff to seek  … Continue reading →

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Harvey’s quick story of capitalism’s crisis

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Martha McCluskey

Those interested in class, crisis and the law might find useful this short video summary of the crisis from a Marxian perspective that’s been making the rounds:   David Harvey, Crisis of Capitalism, (April 26, 2010).    Harvey identifies a … Continue reading →

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Guard Labor, Free Labor, Faculty Labor

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Martha McCluskey

Posted on the SALTLAW blog, more thoughts inspired by Jim Pope’s recent article: The U.S. is the international leader in what some economists call “guard labor,” devoting the highest share of its labor force to supervisory workers than any other … Continue reading →

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