Precarious Power: Syndicalism, Solidarity, and the New Organizational Paradigm
Not An Alternative is participating in a panel on “precarious power” this Saturday, July 16, investigating the intersections of labor organizing, art, and direct action. The panel is part of an upcoming exhibition “The Making of the Chinese New Working Class”, curated by the Culture and Art Museum of Migrant Workers in Beijing and hosted by Ludlow 38 in NY. Associated programming is organized by artist Marty Kirchner and The Public School in various NYC venues.
Symposium: Precarious Power: Syndicalism, Solidarity, and the New Organizational Paradigm
Saturday, July 16, 2011, 4-6pm, free
@ Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies
25 West 43rd Street, between 5th and 6th avenues, 19th Floor
The reorganization of production along global supply chains, often through a complicated pattern of subcontracting, has provided significant challenges for the labor movement. Temporary and contingent employment has undermined labor rights protections worldwide. However, in both China and the West, the last few years have seen a proliferation of dissident worker movements, new kinds of workers organizations and workers’ rights campaigns. Some of the most dynamic and innovative have combined elements of community and labor organizing, cultural production, and direct action.
Immanuel Ness, professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York will facilitate the discussion. His writing focuses on social and revolutionary movements, labor militancy and migrant worker resistance to oppression.
Invited guests include the following participants:
Jeff Becker, International Labor Rights Forum
Daniel Gross, IWW/Brandworkers International
Carrie Gleason, Retail Action Project
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