Archive:What’s Happening at the KI
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WCP: Not Just Viruses: What Epidemic Cinema Teaches Us about Working-Class Vulnerability
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we've looked to earlier viruses to help us make sense of what's happening. As Tom Zaniello reminds us in Working-Class Perspectives this week, film offers important
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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WCP: What the World Needs Now
Natural, human-made, and political disasters have threatened -- or taken -- many people's lives over the past year, and leadership gaps and political divides don't offer much reason to hope. In Worki
Categories: Updates, Working-Class Perspectives
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DC 2021: Continuing Crises, Prospects for Change
On February 3, a group of local DC activists and thinkers gathered to reflect on a tumultuous 2020 and looked forward into a New Year in the District. The panel was part of a series of events as part
Categories: Events, Race and Economic Empowerment Project, Updates
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WCP: Water from a Rock: Joe Biden and Working-Class Catholicism
The U.S. faces a number of daunting problems, including divisions that threaten American democracy, COVID, and climate change. As Joseph A. McCartin writes in this week's Working-Class Perspectives,
Category: Updates
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WEBINAR: Confronting the Digital Workplace: Whose Power? Whose Voice?
On Wednesday, January 27th, KI convened an international panel featuring Christy Hoffman of UNI Global Union, Katie Wells, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kalmanovitz Initiative and Author of “Just-in-Pla
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KI Spring Internship Applications Now Open
KI is now accepting applications for its paid virtual internship for Spring 2021 open to undergraduate and graduate Georgetown students. Internship deadline: Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 11:59
Category: Updates
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WCP: Time to Deliver: How Biden Should Respond to the Insurrection
The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has multiple roots, but one contributing factor is clear: the erosion of hope among tens of millions of people who no longer have faith in the Americ
Category: Updates
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Call for Proposals: A New Social Compact
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University is convening a major public virtual gathering April 28 - May 1, 2021, to envision, define, and lay the groundwork fo
Category: Updates
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WCP: Will 2021 Bring Positive Change for Working-Class People?
As we've noted many times, the pandemic has hit working-class people around the world especially hard. But as Sarah Attfield reminds us in Working-Class Perspectives this week, the incredible hardshi
Category: Updates
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WCP: Beyond Economic Populism
Debates about working-class voters often treat them as a marketing problem, a way of thinking that reflects the commentators’ sense of superiority to people they view as deluded, foolish, stupid, or
Category: Updates