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Rossi Lecture: 'Immigration and Labor Market Precarity in the 21st Century U.S.'
Event Details
April 13, 2017
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Campus Center
Room: Amherst Room
UMass Amherst Campus
Handicap access available
Free admission
Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Century and the Joseph F. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, will analyze challenges currently facing low-wage immigrant workers, recent efforts to organize them, and the politics that blames them for the plight of U.S.-born workers. She will highlight issues facing undocumented and women migrant workers.
This talk is sponsored by the Department of Sociology.
Directions:
The Campus Center is located in the middle of campus at 1 Campus Center Way. Parking is available in the Campus Center Garage.
