Archive:What’s Happening at the KI

• Lowe Mill, Then and Now: Reimagining Industrial Spaces for the 21st Century

  In my hometown, Huntsville, Alabama, one of the most popular attractions is a revitalized factory. While the hallmark exhibit of the area is the U.S. Space and Rocket center, this unlikely building h

  Categories: Research in Action Internship, Updates

• KI Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President, Richard Trumka

  We at the Kalmanovitz Initiative are shocked and saddened by the news today of the sudden passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.  In a career that stretched from working as a miner, then an

  Category: Updates

• WCP: The Downward Path We’ve Trod: Reflections on an Ominous Anniversary

  This week marks the 40th anniversary of an illegal strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) that was decisively broken by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.  In this week

  Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives

• KI Fall Internship Applications Open

  KI is now accepting applications for the Fall 2021 Research in Action and Organizing Internships. These paid internships are open to all Georgetown University undergraduate and graduate students.The 

  Category: Updates

• WCP: Workers, Working and Workplaces

  Films about work shape our attitudes toward labor and laboring, often by inviting us to identify with individual characters. But what happens when film presents a more direct experience of what worke

  Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: James V. Catano

• KI Summer 2021 Interns

  This summer, KI is excited to welcome seven interns as part of our summer research and organizing internships. KI's internship program places Georgetown students with labor and advocacy organizations

  Categories: Organizing Internship, Research in Action Internship, Updates

• Apply Now for the Labor Capital Strategies Fall 2021 Fellowship!

  We are now accepting applications for the Labor Capital Strategies Fall 2021 Fellowship. The Labor Capital Strategies Fellowship is jointly run by the Kalmanovitz Initiative and Heartland Capital Str

  Categories: Labor Capital Strategies, Updates

• WCP: Biden and Social Wages

  Far too many Americans work full-time and still struggle to get by. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Jack Metzgar argues that several parts of President Biden's American Family Plan can chang

  Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Jack Metzgar

• WCP: Infrastructure “Deal”? No Deal for Workers and the Climate

  Last week, President Joe Biden announced that "We have a deal" on an infrastructure bill. In Working-Class Perspectives this week, Ken Estey argues that some groups got what they wanted in that deal,

  Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Ken Estey

• WEBINAR: Just Transition Strategies: Workers and the Green Revolution

  On June 21, KI and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung hosted a webinar, "Just Transition Strategies: Workers and the Green Revolution." Special thanks to panelists Alexander Bercht, Mark Rowlinson, José Br

  Categories: Events, Updates