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For two years before the April 2001 sit-in at Harvard on behalf of the blue-collar workers, Greg Halpern had been photographing them and recording their thoughts about their lives and work. The institution that didn't pay "living wages" —while collecting 5 million a day in interest on its endowment—had actually lowered the workers' pay in the months leading up to the confrontation. The personal accounts presented here are poignant and illuminating reminders of the wide disparity of circumstances that exist in this land of plenty. The photographs are stunning. 65 duotone photographs.
About the Author:
: Greg Halpern grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Harvard in 1999. He has spent the last three years interviewing and photographing cooks, custodians and other service workers at the University while working for the Harvard Living Wage Camapaign.
With stories in their own words alongside proud but weary and unsmiling portraits Halpern puts a face on the daunting statistics facing America's minimum-wage workers, who must labor 80 hours a week to cover basic living expenses
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Yu Chung Tong
reviewed Harvard Works Because We Do on April 19, 2011
Harvard Works Because We Do
Straightforward, unpretentious reporting of events at
Harvard after some students, including this author, saw
the stark contrast between Harvard's burgeoning endowment
funds and its penny-pinching way with the hourly wages of
the people doing menial ("of or relating to servants")
work on campus. That student concern became the
Living Wage Campaign which worked several years to finally
see the lowest-paid workers getting about $11 an hour
instead of less than $7. Most of the text consists of
transcripts of conversations with the workers about their
work and their efforts to support their families decently.
As Studs Terkel says in his foreword, "The custodians of
Harvard now have faces and voices and they are eloquent,
natural-born storytellers." Much of the power of the book
is in the author's fine photographs (portraits) of workers
in their work settings, and of the campaign's sit-in, and
of Harvard's negotiating team as they considered the demands
for some step toward reasonable wages.
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