Intersectionality
Why is intersectionality important in conversations around labor?
The workforce is an incredibly diverse place, and labor organizing echoes this. People of varying backgrounds will face different challenges within the workforce, and therefore it is so important to have diverse organizing.
“If you’re a member of a marginalized group, you can’t really separate your economic experience from your right to make it to work and survive a routine traffic stop, right? Or your right to decide (to) have bodily autonomy — to decide whether or not you’re going to have a child at any certain point in your career.”
-Tamara Lee, assistant professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers University.
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1911 International Workers of The World Pamphlet
“To Colored Workingmen and Women: If you are a wage worker you are welcome in the I.W.W. halls, no matter what your color. By this you may see that the I.W.W. is not a white man's union, not a black man's union, not a red or yellow man's union, but a working man's union. All of the working class in one big union.”