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Feb 2023
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Higher Ed Industrial Unionism w/ Donna M...

Daniel Denvir
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Featuring Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on Rutgers University workers’ industrial unionism strategy. The second in a two-part series on the crisis in American higher education.

Check out Dan’s interview in The Nation: thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir/

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