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    • Overview
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    • Leadership & Union Schools
      • United Steelworkers Summer Institute
      • AFSCME Summer Institute
      • IBEW Arbitration Institute
      • Postal Worker Education
      • Midwest School for Women Workers
    • Workers’ Rights Education
      • Workers’ Rights for Workforce Development
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      • The Polk School
      • Women and Power Leadership Training
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    • Global Labor Studies | Undergraduate Minor
      • Course Descriptions
    • Certificate in Global Labor Studies
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    • Overview
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    • Policy Reports
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  • Project for Middle Class Renewal
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    • Policy Reports
    • Education
    • Fiscal Year Reports
    • Unionization Profiles
    • Wage And Labor Practices
    • Race, Gender, And Labor
    • Taxes, State Revenue and Pensions
    • EQ-IL Dashboard
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By Year: 2010

Driven Into Poverty: A Comprehensive Study of the Chicago Taxicab Industry (Report III: Lease)

The initial idea for the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Taxi Worker Organizing Project came about in 2006 when leaders from its partnering organization, the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC), urged AFSC to publically respond to the violent murder of cabdriver, Haroon Paryani. The Council has functioned as an advocacy group for … Read more

Driven Into Poverty: A Comprehensive Study of the Chicago Taxicab Industry (Report IV: Law Enforcement)

The initial idea for the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Taxi Worker Organizing Project came about in 2006 when leaders from its partnering organization, the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC), urged AFSC to publically respond to the violent murder of cabdriver, Haroon Paryani. The Council has functioned as an advocacy group for … Read more

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