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Your Mileage May Vary: Creating Your Institution Roadmap to Just Employment
- Saint Joseph's University (PA)
An increasing number of institutions have adopted living wage policies or practices to ensure that their employees (and in some cases contractors' employees) are paid an adequate income to make ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Data-Driven Sustainability: How Universities Can Use Data to Make Ethical Licensing Decisions
- Sumerra (OR)
Poor working conditions at a factory in China that manufactures t-shirts bearing a university's logo aren't that university's problem, right? Wrong. Universities are increasingly called to account ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Social Sustainability: University Procurement and Ethical Labor Standards
- Harvard University (MA)
Universities are the center of thought leadership, training global leaders and world citizens. Their business practices should reflect the same core values. Expanding on the anti-sweatshop movement that reformed licensed ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Civic Labors: Scholarly Activism and Working-Class Studies
Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for engaged scholarship in ...
- Posted Jan. 13, 2017
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Indispensable But Invisible: A Report on the Working Climate of Non-Tenure Track Faculty at George Mason University
- George Mason University (VA)
According to institutional data, during the 2012-2013 academic year, adjunct and other
contingent faculty made up 71 percent of the total faculty at George Mason University. Like
contingent faculty at ...
- Posted March 11, 2016
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Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
In the last twenty years, higher education in the United States has been eroded by massive reliance on temporary academic labor—professors without tenure or the prospect of tenure, paid ...
- Posted March 11, 2016
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Living Wage Calculator
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
The Living Wage Calculator (U.S.) was first created in 2004 by Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The living wage model is an alternative measure ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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