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Beyond Unprecedented S2 Ep1: You Can’t Hire Me, I Quit!
No full textIt\u27s being called the Great Resignation: Reports show that millions of American workers have disappeared from the labor force since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. A record number of people are quitting their jobs. Restaurants can’t find wait staff, retailers are searching for seasonal sales help, and airlines have canceled flights. At the same time, a wave of workers is unionizing and even going out on strike, and public support for labor unions is at a 55-year high. Have Americans looked at the current economy and decided they want work to be fundamentally different?
Professor Kate Andrias, a scholar on labor law and a commissioner and the rapporteur for the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, joins co-hosts Professor Eric Talley and Research Fellow Kate Waldock ’23 to discuss how workers are asserting their rights and the future of work in the post-pandemic era.https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/beyond_unprecedented_2/1001/thumbnail.jp
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Building Labor\u27s Constitution
No full textThis essay begins with a puzzle: scholars have built a robust set of constitutional claims about labor rights, claims with deep roots in the labor movement’s own past struggles and its own traditions of constitutional claim-making. Yet, workers’ movements today have made no use of these claims, Andrias reports. The reason, she suggests, has to do with the deep mutual hostility between workers’ movements and the courts. If past were prologue, workers could at least use such arguments outside the courts, but, she argues, “in our [contemporary] legal culture, constitutional arguments are primarily judicial arguments,” and have a way of ending up in court, where workers tend to lose as they have most of the time for more than a century. Thus, it makes sense for workers to avoid constitution talk. At the same time, Andrias argues, to lay the groundwork for any future constitution of workers’ rights – rights “to a union and to collective bargaining, to decent wages and benefits, to basic dignity and a measure of democracy at work” – we would need fundamental political changes that only organizing can bring about. She argues that campaigns such as the Fight for $15 and the Domestic Workers Alliance, working outside the confines of labor law as it is traditionally understood, may be laying the political groundwork for a future “anti-oligarchy Constitution.
Guidelines for Data Annotation
No full textIncluded here are a coding manual and supplementary examples of gesture forms (in still images and video recordings) that informed the coding of the first author (Kate Mesh) and four project reliability coders
Declining Unionization, Rising Inequality: an Interview with Kate Bronfenbrenner
No full textKate Bronfenbrenner is director of labor education research at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She worked for many years as an organizer with the United Woodcutters Association in Mississippi and the Service Employees International Union in Boston. She is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books and articles on union strategies
Kate Richards: madness
No full textKate Richards’ bleakly beautiful, confronting and important book, Madness: A Memoir, describes her 15 years coping with psychosis and depression, and her long, hard-won journey back to sanity, with the help of a wise and compassionate psychologist.
In this video, she speaks with Ranjana Srivastava, an oncologist and fellow author, about her experience – and about being able to write from deep within it, with expertise as both a medical researcher and writer.
 
Book signing by SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer
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SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer signing book
No full textPhotograph of SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer signing boo
Replication Data for Statistical Analysis
No full textIncluded here is a dataset with gesture form coding from the study author (Kate Mesh). Statistical analysis of the dataset was performed using R version 3.6.1 (R Core Team, 2019), with the package, lmer (Bates, Maechler, Bolcher & Walker, 2015). An R script is attached for the purposes of replication.
R Core Team (2019). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/.
Douglas Bates, Martin Maechler, Ben Bolker, Steve Walker (2015). Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software, 67(1), 1-48. doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01
Oral history interview with Kate Hart
No full textKate Hart, author and artist, talks her youth and how she became interested in writing young adult literature. She discusses her book, After the Fall, explaining the circumstances that led her to write the book. Hart comments on the creativity side as well as her process of writing and briefly talks about some of her other work.The Deep Roots: Oklahoma Authors Collection is a series of interviews with authors who discuss their lives, work, and creative processes
Kate Christensen, 37th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textKATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of six novels, including The Epicure\u27s Lament, the PEN/Faulkner award-winning The Great Man, and The Astral. She describes herself as a cook of the improvisational, what\u27s-in-the-cupboard school, which is also, possibly not coincidentally, [her] strategy with writing, and as someone who was raised in Berkeley in the 1960s, long before the Bay Area became the American locavore/foodie mecca. She now lives in Portland, Maine, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Her food memoir is Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites (Doubleday, 2013). She is currently collaborating with Barbara Lynch, the Boston chef, on her memoir
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