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MAR
14
The Road to Rights: Domestic Workers and the New Labor Activism Since 1960
Date:
Friday, 14 Mar 2025
Time:
12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Location:
MSU Library Green Room, 4th floor; https://msu.zoom.us/j/97496813137
Department:
Center for Gender in Global Context
Event Details:

Speaker: Mia Michael, Department of History, Wayne State University

Taking Boston, MA as a case study, Mia Michael unearths how supposedly "unorganizable" domestic workers and their allies blazed a trail towards systemic reform of household employment while influencing and exemplifying the broader revival of organized labor into the twenty-first century. 

All presentations take place in the Green Room, 4th floor, MSU Library from 12:00pm - 1:15pm ET, and are available as an online webinar at https://msu.zoom.us/j/97496813137. The password is odwodl.

Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives

"Our Daily Work / Our Daily Lives" is a joint project that focuses on the artistic traditions of workers and on workplaces as contexts for the expression of workers culture. The richness and diversity of workers' experiences and workers culture is explored and presented through an ongoing series of exhibits, lectures, and presentations; writing and research projects; reunions; and demonstrations and discussions.

The program was established in 1992 and is coordinated by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program at the MSU Museum and the Labor Education Program in the College of Social Science's School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.