Almost 20 years ago a “living wage” campaign by pastors and union organizers in Baltimore caught the attention of activists around the…
Stephanie Luce
Stephanie Luce is a professor at the City University of New York's School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of Labor Movements: Global Perspectives (Wiley, 2014) and Fighting for a Living Wage (Cornell University Press, 2004), a member of the Convergence written content team and recent member of its Editorial Board. Her writing can be found at https://stephanieluce.net.
Last month 300 student-workers from overseas went on strike at a Hershey plant in Pennsylvania. The workers were mostly 18- and 19-year-olds who had…