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Labor and Community Organizing

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Since the 1990s, labor unions and community organizations have increasingly experimented with working in collaboration in order to bring about greater justice and benefits for both workers and community residents. What accounts for the rise of labor-community activism? What are some of its inherent strengths and tensions? What are the conditions under which the strategy has succeeded, and when has it foundered? What does the future hold? How might labor-community activism intersect with some of the new mobilizations around economic justice that are occurring around the country? Presenters: Janice Fine Professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University and Author of Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream Ian Macdonald Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Jeffrey Bellamy Executive Director of Syracuse Alliance for a New Economy Mark Spadafore Political Organizer for SEIU Local 1199

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We’re Turning 100!


To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”

Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.