Sponsored with a grant from the Ford Foundation, this conference aims to stimulate research and discussion on key issues that impact low-wage workers and to focus on the particular role […]

Frank Bardacke tells the thrilling, and ultimately tragic story, of one of the most transformative labor movements in American history. Much has been written about the United Farm Workers, but […]

Solidarity Transformed provides an account of how labor unions in Latin America are developing new strategies to defend the interests of the workers they represent in dynamic global and local […]

Presented by Rodolfo García Zamora, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México After 40 years of a long and rising emigration from Mexico to the United States, where from 800 thousand migrants […]

The increase in migration flows that took place in the last two decades deeply changed the composition of the workforce in many countries and sharpened the national and international debate […]

The Black Fatherhood Project poignantly reveals a history much more complex and profound than what is often seen on the surface of events. Directed and produced by Jordan Thierry, The […]

In Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm (San Diego State University Press, 2013), his new book of non-fiction essays, Alvaro Huerta, CSRC visiting scholar, asks readers to […]

Harry I. Johnson III | Board Member, National Labor Relations Board

Author, photographer and cultural critic, Candacy Taylor has traveled over 26,000 miles throughout the United States documenting diner waitresses for her book Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress (Cornell […]

Major economic downturns bring large increases in permanent layoffs among workers with high prior tenure on the job. We refer to this type of job loss event as a displacement. […]