Mining the Connections:

From Birmingham to Colombia to Massachusetts

Dr. Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Salem State College. She spoke with Colombian Union Organizer Orlando Acosta about the labor practices of the mining industry and struggles of Colombian coal miners in the WSC North/South Auditorium on 31 January 2008.

The Real News Network: Unions in America

Elaine Bernard is the executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Bernard's writings often focus on workers in the telecommunications industry, and the role technological change plays in altering work. In the last several years, she has publicly discussed how advancing technology will change how labor unions function (especially in regard to member-to-member and union-member communication and organizing)

Unions in America

Pt.1: Private sector union membership has plummeted while the public sector has increased April 11, 2009

The war against unions

Pt.2: Legislation in the US a major obstacle to worker organization April 13, 2009

The struggle for the Employee Free Choice Act

Pt.3: The biggest barrier to unionization is the law April 19, 2009

The union non-union gap

Pt4: A successful labor movement socializes their gains - or they weaken themselves April 21, 2009

Unions should organize unemployed

Pt5: To build a movement, unions need to organize unemployed workers to demand jobs April 22, 2009

Unions in America

Elaine Bernard is the executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Bernard's writings often focus on workers in the telecommunications industry, and the role technological change plays in altering work. In the last several years, she has publicly discussed how advancing technology will change how labor unions function (especially in regard to member-to-member and union-member communication and organizing).
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Flexible Employment, Stable Society?

LSE Space for Thought lecture series

Wolfgang Streeck is professor of sociology and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany.

How does the de-regulation of employment relate to the evolution of other social structures, in particular the family? And what are the consequences for the role of the state in society?

A video of the event can be watched at LSE Live

The Space for Thought Lecture series celebrates the completion of the New Academic Building and is supported by the LSE Annual Fund. You can see a list of all the lectures in this series at Space for Thought Inaugural Lecture Series.

A podcast of this event is available to download from the LSE public lectures and events podcasts channel.

Re-Forming Capitalism