Archive: Labor Studies
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KI Marks ILO Centenary with Major Convening Featuring Speakers from Six Continents
The KI convened a major international labor conference to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Washington, D.C. on November 21 and 22.
Categories: Events, Labor Studies
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Schedule Social Justice for the Fall 2019 Semester
Georgetown offers an array of courses delving into issues of social justice taught by brilliant professors with expertise and real-life experiences in their field. We've highlighted some of these cour
Categories: Labor Studies, Uncategorized
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Preregister for Social Justice in the Spring Semester
Georgetown offers an array of courses delving into issues of social justice taught by brilliant professors with expertise and real-life experiences in their field. We've highlighted some of these cou
Category: Labor Studies
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Add Social Justice During Fall Semester Add/Drop
Completing your schedule can be a challenge. Thankfully, Georgetown offers an abundance of classes addressing issues of social and economic justice. We've curated a list of many of those courses here
Category: Labor Studies
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Spring into a Semester of Social Justice
With hundreds of courses offered each semester, it can hard to identify classes and professors that center issues of worker rights and social justice. We compiled this list to make that a bit easier
Category: Labor Studies
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WCP: Springsteen’s Born to Run: Memoir as “Repair”
Bruce Springsteen has long been dubbed as America's working-class troubadour. In this weeks' Working-Class Perspective, Pamela Fox explores the insights of Springsteen's extraordinary memoir on blue
Categories: Labor Studies, Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?
A tired and familiar pattern has emerged in several countries: working-class voters rally behind nationalist, often populist politicians who promise relief but deliver policies that bring more econo
Categories: Labor Studies, Visiting Scholars
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KI Holds Undergraduate Research Conference on Work, Organizing, and Struggle
The conference featured student work confronting the theme “Work, Organize, Struggle: Student Perspectives”. The day included panels addressing the topics of Envisioning Just Economies, States of Existence/States of Resistance, and Latinx Metropolitanisms.
Categories: Events, Labor Studies, People, Student Leaders
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Preregister for Social Justice in Your Fall Semester
The best problem to have is too many good options. At Georgetown University, there is an abundance of undergraduate courses that engage labor, worker rights, or social justice more broadly. To help
Category: Labor Studies
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Features KI Scholars Who Study the Working Class
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently featured our Visiting Scholar John Russo and faculty affiliate Sherry Linkon and their efforts to unravel the mysteries of the American working class. The
Categories: In the News, Labor Studies, Our Staff, People, Visiting Scholars