The sharing economy is a nice way for rapacious capitalists to monetize the desperation of people in the post-crisis economy while sounding generous, and to evoke a fantasy of community in an atomized population.
Source: The “Sharing Economy” Is Just Another Race To the Bottom
Please note the deadline for this year’s contest is Friday, February 19, 2016.
Please note Metro Journal Ads are due Friday, April 21, 2016. This year’s Convention will be held on Friday, May 6, 2016.
Save the date – Metro’s 41st Annual Convention will be held on Friday, May 6. With the earlier convention date we have moved up the date for the upcoming Communications Contest. Deadline for this year’s entries will be Friday, February 19, 2016.
David Kameras and Emily Harris from The United Mine Workers Journal won the inaugural awarding of th Bernhardt prize for their story From Tragedy to Triumph – 100 Years Later, Workers Benefit from Ludlow’s Legacy.
The award was presented at an event on October 15, 2015 at NYU’s Tamiment Library. A panel on “Labor History in Workers’ Stories” began the evening. Panelists included Tom Robbins, Esther Kaplan and Richard Steier.
You can find the winning entry here.
Join us for a happy hour. Thursday, July 30, 5-7pm, at The Grafton, 126 First Ave (between St. Marks and 7th Street) Manhattan. Cash Bar.
Bob Hennelly, Bill Henning, and Shomial Ahmad, a panel of three but full of information.
Metro Co-Director Cara Noel presents the Mary Heaton Vorse award to Diane S. Williams for her very moving piece, “Housing hell,” PEP, DC 37 AFSCME.
The Doherty/Wells recipients for Labor Lines, Victor Fusco, Sara Fusco and Megan Teehan.
Gene Carroll, The Worker Institute, Cornell ILR, gives a passionate intro to this year’s Communicator of the Year awardee Steven Greenhouse.
Metro Co-Director Gary Schoichet presents the Communicator of the Year award to Steven Greenhouse.
Steven Greenhouse speaks about his time as the New York Times’ labor beat reporter.
The annual Workers’ Unite Film Festival runs from May 1st to May 22nd.
There is an incredible selection of films and other, related programming…speakers and panels and discussions and poetry…
For more info click below.