Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Casualization--the increasing use of part-time and contractual labor--is largely responsible for the recent resurgence in the labor movement on college campuses across the United States, according to a GESO study...
Wehr added that he sees the graduate studentlabor movement as feeding into a larger,progressive labor movement...
...long run, the goals of the progressivemovement should be to reassert itself," Wehr says."On a national level, labor could do a better jobof asserting the interests of its members...
...dissatisfied with the way in which this weekend's student/labor solidarity conference was covered (News, April 19). The article focused excessively on useless comparisons between the newly-formed National Student Labor Alliance (NSLA) and the ever-glorified Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) of old. I wish to clarify several misconceptions of the NSLA and the conference that could be drawn from that article...
...NSLA should be seen not so much as a new organism but as a collection of over 70 different campus-based student groups which more or less resemble the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) of this campus. The NSLA will act as a network between these various student groups in order to ease communication and fundraising. Through this confederacy, other PSLMs around the country will be able to link their campaigns, participate in national ones, and help students start up their won PSLM-like organizations...