Archive:Updates
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KI Spring Internship Applications Open
KI is now accepting applications for the Spring 2022 Research in Action and Organizing Internships. These paid internships are open to all Georgetown University undergraduate and graduate students.Th
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Washington Post | Opinion: They worked so we could eat: What we learned from the pandemic’s meatpacking calamity
KI Fellow, Debbie Berkowitz is featured in a Washington Post editorial on the failure of meatpacking companies to protect their workers during the pandemic. Meatpacking plants suffered terrib
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NPR | ‘Striketober’ could have lasting impact on labor
KI Executive Director, Joe McCartin appears on NPR's All Things Considered with Ailsa Chang to discuss Striketober and the Great Resignation. McCartin discusses the current wave of labor militancy wi
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WCP: How Government Statistics Define the Stories of the Working Class
One of my favorite media criticism works is British journalist and media professor Brian Winston’s “On Counting the Wrong Things.” He argues that the categories we use to count can themselves lead to
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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KI Fellow Debbie Berkowitz Testifies on Meatpacking Workers
On October 27, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing, "How the Meatpacking Industry Failed the Workers Who Feed America," featuring KI practitioner fellow, Debbie Ber
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Students Protest Housing Conditions at Howard University
On many fronts, the challenge of affordable housing in Washington is evident. Housing prices continue to rise, contributing to gentrification and neighborhood displacement. Encampments across the cit
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WCP: Blue-Collar Babies: Why America’s Working Class Needs Affordable Child Care
The recent Netflix series Maid, based on Stephanie Land's memoir, highlights the challenges that poor and working-class mothers face in juggling low-wage jobs, social services, and child care. As Lan
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: Class and Water: Climate-Charged Displacement
Climate change threatens all of us, but it is already having -- and will continue to have -- especially powerful effects on working-class people and communities. In Working-Class Perspectives this we
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Check Out KI In the News
As the pandemic continues to impact worker and the labor movement, KI's historians, fellows, and labor experts continue to share their expertise on the implications of this historic moment. Check
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WCP: The Multiracial Working Class
That the working class includes people of all races seems obvious to those who study class. But too often, and especially in discussions about voting patterns, when people talk about "the working cla
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives