Moving Out of Poverty: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict, is the fourth volume from the Moving Out of Poverty series launched in 2007 is under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advis...
Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person’s life, affecting one’s income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability. The delet...
The “information have-less” is a social, economic, and political category for millions of rural-to-urban migrants and laid-off workers who populate the vast gray zone of China’s digital divide. Dis...
Sociological Inquiry 40 (Spring): 13-72
Equality and Inequality in Modern Society, or Social Stratification Revisited
TALCOTT PARSONS
Harvard University
This paper attempts both to "bring up to d...
Since the end of the 1970s, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality.While the United States has long been among the most unequal of the world’s rich economies, the eco...
Synopsis of Ralph Nader, "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" (New York: Seven Stories Press, September 2009). -- Discussed at Digging Deeper (www.ufppc.org) on October 5, 2009.
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Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement
Ruth Milkman (Editor) Kim Voss (Editor)
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Justice for janitors
Waldinger, Roger; Erickson, Chris; Milkman, Ruth; Mitchell, Daniel J B; et al Dissent; Winter 1997; 44, 1; Research Library pg. 37
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New Unity for Labor?
Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss
Nearly a decade ago, former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) president John J. Sweeney was elected...
California Union Membership: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait
Ruth Milkman and Daisy Rooks
The changing level and composition of union membership is a long-standing focus of research on the organized...
Paid Family Leave in California
new research findings
RUTH MILKMAN and E I L E E N A P P E L B A U M
California made history on September 23, 2002, when the nation’s first comprehensive paid family...
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Women’s Work and Economic Crisis: Some Lessons of the Great Depression
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ABSTRACT: An investigation of the impact of the Great Dep...
Redefining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry during World War II Ruth Milkman Feminist Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, Women and Work. (Summer, 1982), pp. 336-372.
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