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KI Statement: AFL-CIO Election of Liz Shuler as President and Fred Redmond as Secretary-Treasurer
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University congratulates the AFL-CIO leadership and members for today’s historic election of Liz Shuler as President of the AFL
Categories: News, Uncategorized
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WCP: COVID-19 Is a Perfect Storm for Women Workers
Women have long held the most precarious jobs, made less money than men, and done most of the paid and unpaid caregiving. As Lane Windham writes in this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, the coronavirus exacerbates these inequalities. While men appear to have a greater chance of dying from COVID-19, the underlying condition of gender inequality makes women particularly vulnerable to economic disaster in the months and years to come.
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WCP: The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later
April 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the crime that propelled Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti into the international media spotlight. As Michele Fazio writes in this week’s Working-Class Perspectives (new window), while their story is not widely commemorated in the U.S., it reflects tensions around class, race, and politics that still reverberate in today’s discussions of politics, protest, and how we remember and teach about activism and social justice.
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Notre Dame Cathedral and Questions from a Worker Who Reads (after Bertolt Brecht)
Public reaction to the Notre Dame Cathedral fire raises several questions in the mind of this week’s contributor to Working Class Perspectives, Sarah Attfield, regarding the biases present in reporting, public sympathy, and colonizers’ mentality. Left out of the telling of Notre Dame’s history are the workers who laid its stones hundreds of years ago, all while looking to the workers who must soon lay stones for the Cathedral again.
Categories: Uncategorized, Visiting Scholars
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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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Meet Our Fall 2016 Research In Action Interns
The KI was lucky to have eight excellent students undergoing our Research in Action Internship for the Fall 2016 Semester! Lilah Burke worked on Bill Fletcher, Jr.'s radio program, Kory Stuer and Ya
Categories: Research in Action Internship, Student Leaders, Uncategorized
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Introducing Our Fall 2016 Organizing Interns
The Kalmanovitz Initiative is proud to have seven incredible students undergoing our Organizing Internship for the fall of 2016. Mackenzie Foy works with DC Jobs with Justice; K Me, Vincent DeLauren
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Farmworkers and Allies March for Fair Food: Featured Video
[embed]https://vimeo.com/191589944[/embed] Shalina Chatlani (SFS ’17) interns for Industry Dive and is an Undergraduate Writing Fellow for the Kalmanovitz Initiative. We are thrilled to feature her w
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WCP: A Future Nobel Literature Prize for a Working-Class Rapper?
Awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan opens up the possibility that other songwriters could receive the prize. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield sheds a spotlig
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Kalmanovitz Initiative Hosts Discussion on Women, Work, and Globalization
The Kalmanovitz Initiative was honored to host a panel discussion among four of Georgetown’s most esteemed faculty members about the experiences of working women whose lives are impacted by globalization. After a brief introduction by KI’s Executive Director Dr. Joseph A. McCartin, each scholar presented on their research and shared stories from their respective field work.
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