2024 “Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston”
Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History and the Coordinator of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts.
Classroom Presentation: PDF
Monday, January 22, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Milstein West B, Wasserstein Hall Harvard Law School
2023 “Labor Power and Strategy”
John Womack Jr. Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Emeritus Harvard University
and Peter Olney, retired Organizing Director of the ILWU.
Wednesday, February 1, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Milstein West B, Wasserstein Hall Harvard Law School
2020 “Public Servants: Race, Gender and the Roots of Public Employee Unionism”
William P. Jones, Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Monday, February 10, 2020, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law School
2019 “Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: Organizing Workers in the Southern USA”
Speakers: Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Professor, West Virginia University and Ken Fones-Wolf, Professor, Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair, West Virginia University
Commenter: Sister Marie-Therese Browne, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky
Monday, February 11, 2019, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
WCC 2019 Milstein West AB, Harvard Law School
Join us for the 2019 James Green Memorial Forum feat. Ken and Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, both of whom will discuss the challenges of organizing workers in the postwar South including highlights from their recent book “Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie” (University of Illinois Press). Followed by commentary from Sister Marie-Thérèse Browne aka “Sister Tess,” who has mobilized religious communities in labor struggles throughout the U.S. South.
2018 “New Forms to Settle Old Scores? Worker Centers and Their Recent Trajectories”
Janice Fine, Research and Strategy Director at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO), Rutgers University
and Natalicia Tracy, Executive Director, Brazilian Worker Center
Thursday, January 18, 2018, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Austin Hall, Room 111 Harvard Law School
2017 “SCENARIOS FOR ORGANIZED LABOR IN THE TRUMP ERA”
Bill Fletcher Jr. Author & Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies
Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Wasserstein Hall, Room 2036 B Harvard Law School