Week of Events
Caring for America: Home Health Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State Caring for America: Home Health Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
Caring for America: Home Health Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State Caring for America: Home Health Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
Eileen Boris's new book, Caring for America: Home Health Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State, explains how law makers, health care administrators, government officials, labor organizers, and millions of working women have constructed a distinctively new and controversial occupational category out of which hundreds of thousands of workers have been organized. The […]
Labor’s Fate after Wisconsin
Labor’s Fate after Wisconsin
"Labor's Fate after Wisconsin," featuring Heather and Paul Booth. Both are long-time political activists. Heather Booth founded the Midwest Academy, a training center for organizers, and she has worked closely with labor groups and the Democratic Party to register millions of new minority voters, advance the AFL-CIO health care agenda and the Dodd/Frank financial reform […]