Archive:What’s Happening at the KI

• 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

• WCP: America’s Cross-Class Romance with Mare of Easttown

  In this week's Working-Class Perspectives, Kathy M. Newman ponders why so many Americans fell in love with Mare of Easttown, a depressing television series about a burned out town, an unsolved murder

  Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives Tag: Kathy M. Newman

• 2021 LCS Summer Fellows

  This summer, KI and Heartland Capital Strategies welcome 12 fellows as part of our 2021 Summer Class of the Labor Capital Strategies Fellowship. This program gives students the opportunity to gain ha

  Categories: Labor Capital Strategies, Updates