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Karen Nussbaum (born April 25, 1950) is an American labor leader and founding director of Working America. Nussbaum was born in Chicago where her mother, Annette Brenner Nussbaum, was a publicist, and her father, Myron "Mike" Nussbaum, was an exterminator, actor, and director.
Karen Nussbaum is a longtime leader in the working women's movement, co-founding 9to5 and founding Working America. She also served as the director of the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor and wrote several books and articles on labor and politics.
Marzo, 2024. Karen Nussbaum (Estados Unidos, 1950) ha estado luchando por los derechos de los trabajadores durante más de cuatro décadas. Fue una de las fundadoras de 9to5: National Association of Working Women, que a su vez engendraría el Distrito 925 del SEIU (el mayor sindicato estadounidense de trabajadores de servicio).
24 de feb. de 2024 · A principios de 1970, cuando Karen Nussbaum (Chicago, 1950) cursaba el segundo año en la Universidad de Chicago –después de un primer año en el que pasó menos tiempo en las aulas que en las protestas contra la guerra de Vietnam–, decidió abandonar sus estudios y viajar a Cuba con la “Brigada Venceremos”, una ...
Karen Nussbaum at the first National Secretaries' Day protest in Boston 1974 "We thought this was ridiculous, we wanted our rights 365 days a year," says Cassedy.
Karen Nussbaum is a longtime organizer for women's rights and labor issues. She co-founded 9to5, led the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, and created Working America.
1 de feb. de 2021 · Karen Nussbaum was a cofounder of the pioneering labor-feminist organization 9to5. In an interview with Jacobin, she discusses why working women in the 1970s needed to organize as workers, 9to5’s hilarious tactics, and why “individually self-reliant but collectively powerless” women workers today still need to organize on the job.
