Sara Horowitz
Founder, Freelancers Union
Sara Horowitz founded Working Today - Freelancers Union in 1995 to represent the needs and concerns of the growing independent workforce. In recognition of her efforts to create a self-sustaining organization of flexible workers, Horowitz was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1999. Before founding Freelancers Union, Horowitz worked as a labor attorney, a union organizer, and a public defender in New York City. A lifelong resident of Brooklyn, she holds degrees from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, SUNY Buffalo Law School, and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Horowitz is a trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and is on the board of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation.
The labor expert reveals her best advice.
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Sara Horowitz breaks down union demographics.
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Sara Horowitz charts a plan for universal coverage
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The labor expert considers Tina Brown’s analysis of the gig economy.
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Social networking is the tool par excellence for labor organizing.
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Sara Horowitz surveys the global free market
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The labor expert sees a bold new role for unions in the new economy.
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The labor expert takes a look back on labor’s importance in the American workplace.
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Sara Horowitz on the demise of GM and the future of unions.
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Big Think presents an interview with Sara Horowitz, founder of the Freelancers Union.
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