2023-24 Academic Year

FALL 2023

October 10—Jackson Smith (University of Oregon)

October 17—Bob Reinhardt (Boise State)

October 24—Arbella Bet-Shlimon (University of Washington)

WINTER 2024

Jan 30— Julie Weise (University of Oregon)

Feb 20— Coll Thrush (University of British Columbia) 

Pierson Lecture: Feb 27—Louis Warren (University of California, Davis)

SPRING 2024

May 7—Juliette Levy (UC Riverside)

May 21—Lane Windham (Georgetown)

Is Labor Rising? 1970s Union Organizing and the Post-Neoliberal Working Class

A fresh look at 1970s union organizing centers class action within neoliberalism's historical trajectory. A newly-diversified working class made a massive push for new unions in the 1970s, only to meet a wall of corporate resistance and weakened legal protections.  Today’s high levels of worker action echo those of the pivotal 1970s, yet many neoliberal structural barriers remain intact. What does this reveal about America’s working class in an era of post-neoliberal flux?

2022-23 Academic Year