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 17, 2014
Yesterday I had the honor of kicking off the fourth annual national Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) conference, hosted by the Kalmanovitz Initiative at Georgetown University. Over 250 labor scholars and practitioners from unions, universities and nonprofits across the country have come together here to share their experiences and… Read More»
Tags: Georgetown, labor, labor research action network, LRAN, research
