Category: Labor

Bernice Yeung: “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers”

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Lewis Lounge Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St. Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers” Bernice Yeung, Investigative Reporter Reveal (Center for Investigative Reporting) From the Reveal website: “Bernice Yeung…

Unrest in the Aisles, an OQ story about the research of Eileen Otis

Editor’s Note: Through CSWS Faculty Research Grants, CSWS has supported the research of faculty affiliate Eileen Otis. From Oregon Quarterly—The first time UO sociologist Eileen Otis walked into a Walmart, she was far from home—Kunming, China, to be exact. She…

Eileen Otis: Labor Research Colloquium Speaker Series

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Miller Room Erb Memorial Union 1222 E. 13th Ave. “Walmart in China: How are Chinese workers confronting the world’s largest company?” A Lecture Series Sponsored by the UO Labor Education & Research Center Spring 2018 This year’s series will kick…

Lamia Karim receives Wenner-Gren Foundation research grant

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CSWS faculty affiliate Lamia Karim, an associate professor in the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology, received a Post-Ph.D. Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research to conduct ethnographic research on post-industrial workers in the global apparel industry…

Bhairavi Desai: 2018 Margaret Hallock Program speaker

Location: TBD Time: TBD Save-the-Date Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance will be the 2018 Margaret Hallock Program speaker for the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. She’ll be visiting on May 2-3, 2018 and giving…