June 29, 2016
This story was written by Jeff Schuhrke and first appeared at In These Times. When 100,000 protesters occupied the Wisconsin State Capitol in early 2011 in an attempt to thwart Governor Scott Walker’s bill revoking the rights of public sector employees, a group of labor researchers and scholars were motivated to… Read More»
Tags: Academics, Chicago, Karen Lewis, Labor Research and Action Network, LRAN, research, Scott Walker, Tefere Gebre, Thomas Geoghegan, Wisconsin Uprising
June 25, 2015
More than 250 scholars and practitioners gathered for the fifth annual national Labor Research and Action Network conference, a project coordinated by the Jobs With Justice Education Fund, last week. The two-day event, hosted by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, brings together academics,… Read More»
Tags: Christina Montorio, conference, David Weil, Department of Labor, Georgetown University, Harris v. Quinn, Jack Mahoney, Kalmanovitz Initiative, Labor Research and Action Network, San Fransisco, Veronica Mendez
