New Orleans Casual, temporary, irregular (Korea), part-time, and informal are all terms of art in different countries describing everywhere essentially the same global workforce phenomena in the race to the bottom for public and corporate employers sweating labor from workers on a come-as-you-are, no benefits, we-will-call-you-whenever-we-need-you basis. We learned from hours of intensive dialogue with …
Category: Organizing
Remembering the Great Art Martin
New Orleans In 1974 when ACORN could hardly break into the Arkansas Gazette there was a front page story about how the organization and its members had engineered a “takeover” of the Pulaski County Quorum Court, which at that time was the governing body of the County holding Little Rock and North Little Rock. The …
Who is that Masked Woman – and Why?
New Orleans Rifling through the papers on my return, I am confronted by a picture of women on the beach in ski masks. What’s up with that? Flip a couple of pages and there are even more of them, as if it is a blooming fad of some kind. Reading further it was some of …