Founded in 1992 in Hempstead, NY, as one of the first worker centers in the country, the Workplace Project (Norman grantee 1994–2003) was established to help end the exploitation of Latino immigrant workers — mostly Salvadoran refugees who had fled…
The farm crisis of the 1980s drove tens of thousands of American farms out of business and pushed rural suicide rates to their highest levels since the Great Depression. In the 1990s, a new threat emerged: the systematic corporate takeover…
In the 1990s, the Norman Foundation grew increasingly interested in innovative strategies that opened new pathways to economic opportunity. Worker ownership was one promising frontier — an approach that went beyond fighting for better wages and conditions within existing structures…