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Why the Buses Stopped Running: An Interview with a Transportation Worker in Florence
by Julia Hubbell (COL '15) There are times when you study abroad that find yourself in a foreign country with a bottle of wine and a sunset at your feet. There are times you find yourself swimming in
Category: Student Leaders
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Public Sector Unionism Under Assault: How to Combat the Scapegoating of Organized Labor
The most recent issue of the New Labor Forum features an article entitled "Public Sector Unionism Under Assault: How to Combat the Scapegoating of Organized Labor" written by Professor Joseph McCartin
Categories: Articles, Bargaining for the Common Good
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Introducing our 2014 Spring Organizing Interns
The Kalmanovitz Initiative is excited to welcome the following five students to our Organizing Internship for spring 2014! Nick Dirago and Carly Rosenfield will work with ONE DC, Josh Zeitlin will wor
Categories: Organizing Internship, Student Leaders
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Meet Our 2014 Worker Justice DC Leaders
Meet Mabel Rodriguez and Reggie Wiley, the students leading our 2014 Worker Justice DC Alternative Spring Break! Mabel Rodriguez (COL '14) is an English major with a double minor in French and Gove
Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC
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Spring 2014 Organizing Fellowship Now Open for Applications
Applications are now open for the KI Organizing Fellowship for spring 2014! The Organizing Fellowship places carefully selected student applicants with top local community and labor groups advocatin
Category: Organizing Internship
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Apply for the Spring 2014 Day Laborer Exchange Program!
Applications are now available for the spring 2014 semester of the Kalmanovitz Initiative's Student-Day Laborer Exchange Program! DLE is a community-based education program for Georgetown students t
Category: Day Laborer Exchange
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What Works for Workers
Over the past thirty years, the dramatic polarization of the U.S. labor market has stalled middle-class income growth and real wages for unskilled workers have dropped.
Category: Publications
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Labor-Related Courses for Spring 2014
The following is a sampling of Georgetown courses that touch on labor and economic justice issues in line with the Kalmanovitz Initiative’s mission. AFAM 210: Black Power and Theology of Liberation A
Category: Labor Studies