{"id":474,"date":"2013-05-01T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=474"},"modified":"2013-05-14T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:08:58","slug":"solidarity-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2013\/05\/01\/solidarity-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May Day 2013, the\u00a0recent <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-admin\/post-new.php\">collapse of\u00a0a garment factory<\/a> on top of hundreds of\u00a0workers in Bangladesh\u00a0just\u00a0five days ago is yet another grievance charged against the global game of capitalism. \u00a0The inequalities exacerbated by globalization in Bangladesh\u00a0have\u00a0roots in\u00a0the same issues facing workers the world over\u00a0since the formation of wage labor:\u00a0 the right to a living wage, the right to collective bargaining, an equal wage\u00a0and\u00a0the right to a safe working environment.\u00a0 These grievances have been outsourced to the third world for commodity production which we see as goods in the US marketplace; however, the agriculture industry, for which 51% of US land is dedicated, relies on cheap labor power to harvest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/05\/image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-477\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/05\/image-300x218.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/05\/image-300x218.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/05\/image-412x300.jpeg 412w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/files\/2013\/05\/image.jpeg 893w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent acquisition to the Human Rights Collection are the records of <a href=\"http:\/\/publichealth.uconn.edu\/aboutus_mfwc.php\">UConn&#8217;s Migrant Worker Health Clinic<\/a>.\u00a0 At the University of Connecticut Health\u00a0Center, the office of the Migrant Worker&#8217;s Health Clinic runs a mobile clinic at agricultural farms throughout the state, providing health, dental and eye care through volunteer physicians and students to seasonal migrant laborers.\u00a0 Workers from Latin America and the Caribbean come to Connecticut to work on Tobacco and fruit farms without health coverage and other labor rights afforded to US citizens.\u00a0 With immigration being a continually vibrant topic of discussion (as well as the shaper of the country we know today) this collection provides a very real context of local immigration issues surrounding the precarious labor relationship with foreign workers.\u00a0 This collection\u00a0is an\u00a0ongoing acquisition which portrays the quantitative data on the labor pool itself as well as the outreach and resources provided on behalf of the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/findaids\/romano\/MSS20080006.html\">Robin Romano&#8217;s<\/a> photograph collection and personal papers from his work on child labor in the third world provide an important visual representation of what unrestricted market demand looks like.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:graham.stinnett@lib.uconn.edu\">curator<\/a> to schedule an appointment to view these materials.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Day 2013, the\u00a0recent collapse of\u00a0a garment factory on top of hundreds of\u00a0workers in Bangladesh\u00a0just\u00a0five days ago is yet another grievance charged against the global game of capitalism. \u00a0The inequalities exacerbated by globalization in Bangladesh\u00a0have\u00a0roots in\u00a0the same issues facing workers &hellip; 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