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The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century
May 6, 2011 @ 12:00 am
Please join us for a talk by Tom Juravich, Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
“The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century.”
Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker’s View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of a bitter labor struggle in West Virginia, Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor, with Kate Bronfenbrenner, (1999); and At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century (2009).
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, May 6 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
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