The Labor Center of UMASS Amherst hosts immigration and work conference
Submitted by editor on October 4, 2009 - 7:21am.
Nov 20 2009 - 9:00am The Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst will be hosting a conference on immigration and work in Massachusetts. We'll have scholars present new research on: * work lives of immigrant youth
* the impact of immigration raids on workers and communities in the Commonwealth
* patterns of change in local labor markets
* opportunities for organizing in immigrant communities
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES BY:
EDDIE ACOSTA
National Worker Center Coordinator, AFL-CIO
ROBYN RODRIGUEZ
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University, author of "Migrants for Export: How the Philippines Brokers Labor to the World,"
(University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2010)
Friday, November 20
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Gordon Hall
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
More details to come. Check www.umass.edu/lrrc
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