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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? Countering the popular myth that Chinese workers are “stealing American jobs,” Striking to Survive documents a recent wave of factory closures in China’s Pearl River Delta and … 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

Report Release: Results from the Human Services Workforce Study

Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work 2180 3rd Ave., New York, NY, United States

RSVP HERE The results are in! Join us on October 11, 2018 for the community roll-out of the Human Service Workforce Study, sponsored by the Human Services Council, Silberman School of Social Work, and the Touro College Graduate School of Social Work. The Report, Business as Usual? A Wake-Up Call for The Human Services, reflects the experience … Continue reading Report Release: Results from the Human Services Workforce Study

Poverty Wages, Not Lovin’ It: The Rise of a New Global Labor Movement

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6304.01 365 5th Ave., New York, NY, United States

Prof.  Annelise Orleck in conversation with Prof. Stephanie Luce This talk will trace a new global labor movement, an uprising against poverty wages, created and sustained by low-wage workers in the U.S. and every continent on earth: farm workers and small farmers, fast food and retail workers, garment workers, home health care aides, hotel housekeepers … Continue reading Poverty Wages, Not Lovin’ It: The Rise of a New Global Labor Movement

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