We are proud to launch the inaugural issue of the Undergraduate Journal on Work, Labor and Social Movements.  The publication is a project of the Labor Extension Program of the University of Massachusetts system, and aims to foster a cross-campus conversation among undergraduate students at each UMass campus. This is a space for students to research trends in labor from historical, economic, and sociological perspectives; to explore the roles that labor and the labor movement play in their own lives and those of their peers; and to reflect on their own activism.

It is time for us to continue the important work of training the next generation of labor leaders. Organized labor is under attack, but we are fighting back and winning: at Marriott, in Los Angeles, and across this country.

To continue that work, we must recruit, train, and place promising activists throughout the movement. To that end, the UMass Amherst Labor Center is now accepting applications to the incoming class of our residential and limited residency (ULA) Master’s programs.

Sean Spicer represents a white nationalist vision of America and the world that we reject. The UMass Labor Center offers an alternative vision of solidarity that sees the struggle for economic justice as inseparable from the fight for racial justice and gender equity. We will demonstrate our displeasure with Mr. Spicer tomorrow, but we do that every day.

Save the date! The Labor Center is planning an exciting conference that will employ the power of film to explore questions of workers' social and economic conditions, and to spur creative action on critical movement issues and organizing in all forms. Events will be held at the UMass Amherst Campus Center, November 9-10, 2019.

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