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Working for Dignity: A Community Discussion on Raising the Minimum Wage
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryThis event launches the final report from the Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County, produced by UCSC Center for Labor Studies, and a community conversation on economic justice. The event will include a panel discussion on the state-wide campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, featuring local workers […]
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Wage Justice: Fighting Wage Theft in Our Community
Civic Plaza Community RoomThis community event will launch the public art and findings of a year-long research project - Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County produced by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. The event will showcase the project's website and feature workers, researchers and students sharing their stories about low pay and wage […]
FreeWorking for Dignity: The Santa Cruz County Low-Wage Worker Study, Photo Exhibit, and Community Dialog
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryThursday, May 7, 2015 • 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Museum of Art and History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz Free Public Event This campus-community event will showcase the findings of a year-long research and multi-media project on workers and working conditions in low-wage jobs in Santa Cruz County. We will unveil a new public […]
FreeSanchita Saxena: "Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries"
College 8, Room 201Join Sanchita Saxena as she discusses her new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries, which earned rave reviews from leading experts. It is essential reading for students and researchers in policy studies, labor studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, international trade, and political science, […]
FreeLabor Across the Food System Conference
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3-4, 2012 FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS are often a glaring absence in discussions of the contemporary global food system, even though they are employed in some of the most labor-intensive industries within the entire economy, among them agricultural field work, food processing, food distribution, […]