New Orleans University based, state funded labor studies programs, frequently forced to balance curricula, research, and training between management and union perspectives, would not necessarily come up on the top 10 institutional supports for progressive movements or even the top 100, but it would be somewhere on the list, all of which means that these …
Month: May 2011
Real Jobs for Real People in the Informal Economy
New Orleans I argued yesterday that as important as “new” industries and mass employers are in finding real employment for millions, that the days when headlines of General Motors hiring 4000 workers are going to be few and far between. What we need is localized informal workshops, training, production, marketing, and sales that can provide …
Embracing the “Informal” Economy for the 20% Unemployed Men
New Orleans Somehow the columnists are finally noticing that there are a lot of men (and most of them are still men) who are woefully out of work. Both the Times’ David Brooks and David Leonhardt have commented on the fact that 20% of American men are out of work between 25 and 54. Brooks …