August 2013 Archives

 
  1. Friday, Aug 30, 2013, 1:01 PM

    How the Decline of Unions Has Increased Racial Inequality

    Many people think of a union member as a white, blue collar male—and this image has prompted some to suspect that unions reinforce rather than reduce racial and gender inequalities. But the image is outdated. Since the 1960s the U.S. labor movement has been racially diverse.

    Meredith Kleykamp & Jake Rosenfeld
  2. Friday, Aug 30, 2013, 12:30 PM

    Politics, Race, and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement

    Once considered a countervailing power to business, the labor movement has been in crisis and decline for decades. The unionized share of the American labor force peaked at one in three workers in the 1950s, but it has since plummeted to less than one in ten.

    Dorian Warren

 

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