On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike at Yale University, 1984-85

by Toni Gilpin

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Toni Gilpin

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Toni Gilpin is a labor historian, activist, and writer. She is coauthor of On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike at Yale University, and is the recipient of the 2018 Debra Bernhardt Award for Labor Journalism.

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