David Bacon
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Bacon
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Opinion
Streets of New York – the subway
May 21, 2015The great thing about the New York subway is the people: it feels like you're seeing people from every place on Earth.
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Labor
For potato farmers, “organic” means hard labor
May 8, 2015The organic food industry especially should hold itself to high standards for labor practices.
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Labor
Labor camp residents determined to change things
April 27, 2015Over 250 workers walked out of the fields several times, as their anger grew over the wages and the conditions in the labor camp where they lived.
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Labor
Miners and farmers challenge Mexico’s copper giant
April 16, 2015"The government and Grupo Mexico are making history but backwards, taking away the right to strike and the right to industrial safety."
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Labor
Growers move to gut California’s farm labor law
April 9, 2015Gerawan Farming, one of the country's largest growers, is challenging the law that makes farm workers' union rights enforceable.
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Labor
To raise wages in Panama, dockers join a U.S. union
April 6, 2015In Panama they call longshore pay "hunger wages." Workers' families live below the government's own poverty line, and some families literally go hungry.
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U.S.
Adjunct Prof. Leleua Loupe’s office: the trunk of her car
February 12, 2015"At the beginning of the semester," explains historian and lecturer Leleua Loupe, "students don't know history or understand the world around them."
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U.S.
Republicans step up their attacks on immigrants
February 2, 2015After the Republican majority was elected, Richard Trumka warned its defunding proposal "would further exploit and force our community members to continue to live and work in fear."
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