There are many sources for information
about the living wage on the internet. Some of the best are collected
below, as well as other related sites.
Living Wage Resource Center by ACORN is the most
complete resource for living wage activism on the web.
Living
Wage Action Center is an education and training
organizations put together by student activists from the Georgetown
University living wage campaign.
Workers'
Words is a moving collection of interviews with
low-wage workers at Harvard, and a good complement to the interviews
on this website.
"Occupation:
The Harvard University Living Wage Sit-In" is
a 42-minute documentary film on the Harvard labor rights campaign,
available for free through iFilm. It is an extraordinary inside
look at the meaning and people behind the campaign.
Harvard's
Progressive Student Labor Movement has
a fantastic site, with links illustrating the long history of
the Harvard campaign.
The
Economic Policy Institute and PERI
provide some of the economic research and arguments that support
living wage proposals and campaigns. (Arguments and research
against living wages can be found at the usual conservative
institutes, including the Cato
Institute and the Heritage
Foundation.)
United
Students Against Sweatshops is an active national
student organization dedicated to increasing the power and welfare
of low-wage workers and families. They have been involved in
supporting numerous campaigns, including the Living Wage campaign.
Union
Summer is an internship program for students and
part-time organizers directed by the AFL-CIO. Many student activists
and future organizers have participated in this program.
LabourStart
is an excellent international news source for stories related
to unions and workers' rights. It also sends out important action
alerts and email campaigns.
Jobs
with Justice is a large coalition made up of much
smaller ones across the United States. Jobs with Justice also
teamed together with the US Students Association to form Student-Labor
Action Project (SLAP).
SEIU
(Service Employees International Union) is the largest union
within the AFL-CIO, and is often the union involved in or leading
living wage campaigns, on and off campus.
PR
Watch is an outstanding watchdog of the confluence
of public relations and politics. For an excellent article on
Berman & Co., the PR group behind the anti-living wage institute
Employment Policies Institute,
see their article "Berman
& Co.: 'Nonprofit' Hustlers for the Food & Booze Biz."
