Archive: Joseph A. McCartin
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Holy Cross | Joe McCartin on the Dual Fall of Workers’ Rights and Democracy and How Catholic Teachings Can Provide Guidance
In this talk, McCartin connects the current crisis of democracy in our politics, which is visible in this year when 2020 election deniers are poised to win election in many states, to the crisis of d
Category: In the News
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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: News
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WCP: Undelivered: The DeJoy Scandal and Democracy in the Balance
In this turbulent moment, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy aptly symbolizes the precarious state of both our democracy and the workers on whose shoulder its future rests.
Category: News
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WCP: Bargaining for the Common Good Comes of Age
The week-long strike by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) in January 2019 marked the most significant struggle yet in a movement by teachers and other public-sector workers called Bargaining for the Common Good.
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Visiting Scholars
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Worker Organizing Roundtable features Lane Windham’s Knocking on Labor’s Door
How can working people build power today when organizing a union is so difficult? That question was at the heart of a KI roundtable discussion on strategic twenty-first century worker organizing with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride, Jobs with Justice Organizing Director Erica Smiley, and KI Associate Director Lane Windham.
Categories: Events, Our Staff, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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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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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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Make Social Justice Part of Your Spring Semester
One of the greatest parts about attending Georgetown University is the abundance of undergraduate courses that engage social justice, including labor and worker rights! To make course selection easi
Category: Labor Studies
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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.
Categories: Events, Uncategorized, Visiting Scholars