Archive:Ruth Barton

• WCP: Scabby the Rat Down Under

  In Australia, as in the U.S., increasing restrictions on unions have forced the labor movement to come up with new and creative methods of communication. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Ruth Barton explores the roll of large inflatable animals in Australian labor protests, and how activists have struggled to keep them inflated.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Australia, John Russo, Labor Movement, Protest, Ruth Barton, Sherry Linkon, Strike, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives