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Kathryn Edin: The Tenuous Ties of Working-Class Men

CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall 365 5th Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

RSVP HERE What can explain the decline in labor force participation among U.S. working class men, as well as their rising rates of suicide and overdose? Kathryn Edin, co-author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, examines issues playing a decisive role in our national discussion. Through the use of ethnographic and … Continue reading Kathryn Edin: The Tenuous Ties of Working-Class Men

Brown Bag Lunch: Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China by Fan Shigang

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W 43RD ST, NEW YORK, NY

What is the meaning of the thousands of strikes in China? Do these strikes add up to a "labor movement"? How can solidarity between Chinese and American workers be built? … Continue reading Brown Bag Lunch: Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China by Fan Shigang

Cooperative Cities: Feminist, Social, & Emancipatory

The New School University Center Room 63 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY, United States

Please join us for the launch of Volume 9 of the Journal of Design Strategies, Cooperative Cities, which provides a critical insight to the way women have conceptualized and fostered the co-production of non hierarchical and cooperative urban practices across cities and nations. We are celebrating their work with a panel discussion involving a transgenerational … Continue reading Cooperative Cities: Feminist, Social, & Emancipatory

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