Archive:Jess Chilin
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BLOG: What Does Being a Student in DC Have to Do with Global Labor Standards?
Jessica E. Richards (COL '20) is a participant in the KI's 2018 Worker Justice DC alternative break program. At the end of every day during the week, our trip leaders asked us to sit down and think a
Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC
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KI Director Reflects on 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
Exactly 125 years ago, in 1891, the industrializing world was going through a traumatic transformation that should seem familiar to us today: new technologies were transforming work; people were being uprooted by economic process from the lands of their birth and their traditional ways of life and drawn to the centers of the new economy, fleeing the collapsing worlds their parents had known and seeking new and better ones; millions of immigrants, emigrants, and migrants were crossing borders and seeking new homes; cities were growing and their problems were multiplying; tensions were emerging as cultures clashed; xenophobia was ignited (in the US it took the form of the American Protective Association, which sought to ban Catholic immigrants to this country); inequality was surging as some reaped enormous, unprecedented, and obscene profits from the new economy while others suffered egregious exploitation.
Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy, Our Staff
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KI Fellow Launches Podcast on Work and Wealth
Dawn is the creator and host of the podcast, which she developed as a KI Practitioner Fellow and doctoral candidate in liberal studies at Georgetown University. The show is produced by KI undergraduate research assistant Sonia Adjroud.
Categories: Events, Our Staff, Practitioner Fellows
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Meet the Worker Justice DC Leaders for 2017
We are delighted to introduce the student leaders for the 2017 Worker Justice DC alternative break program: Zackary Abu-Akeel and Vincent DeLaurentis! Both are former WJDC participants who are returni
Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC
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Apply for Worker Justice DC Alternative Spring Break 2016
Led by our awesome trip leaders Laura Fairman and Lily Ryan, students on WJDC 2016 will immerse themselves in the DC community to work, learn, and reflect in solidarity with workers, community organiz
Categories: Student Leaders, Worker Justice DC
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WCP: Action for Justice: The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
The most recent Working-Class Perspectives post centers on the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, housed at Georgetown University, and its efforts to educate, agitate, and organi
Categories: Our Staff, Visiting Scholars