Just Wage Presentations
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2019 Democracy and Inequality in the Americas (University of Notre Dame)
2019 Harvard Business School Gender & Work Symposium (Cambridge, MA)
2019 OPTION FOR THE POOR: Engaging the Social Tradition (University of Notre Dame)
2019 Catholic Social Teaching and the Dignity of Labor (Chicago, IL)
2019 Notre Dame Ethics Week: Economic Inequality: on Campuses, in Communities and at Companies (University of Notre Dame)
2018 Labor Day in December (Berrien, MI)
2018 CSC Research Seminar (University of Notre Dame)
2018 Just Wage Symposium (Washington, DC)
2017 Just Wage Working Group Inaugural Research Workshop (University of Notre Dame)
Democracy and Inequality in the Americas
Monday-Tuesday, April 8-9, 2019
University of Notre Dame
A conference co-sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Initiative for Global Development
Profit Splitting, Power Sharing, and Policy Setting: Organized Labor, the Forgotten Fight Against ‘Excess Profits,’ and Economic Amnesia in the Contemporary USA (Apr. 8)
Dan Graff
Director, Higgins Labor Program at the Center for Social Concerns, and Professor of the Practice, History
Engaging Academics, Students, Practitioners, and Community Partners for Social Change (Apr. 9)
Connie Mick
Director, Academic Affairs; Co-Director, Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor
Harvard Business School Gender & Work Symposium
Wednesday-Thursday, April 3-4, 2019
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
The Preferential Option and the Movement for Equal Pay
Charlice Hurst
Assistant Professor, Management & Organization
OPTION FOR THE POOR: Engaging the Social Tradition
Thursday-Saturday, March 21-23, 2019
Unversity of Notre Dame
2019 Catholic Social Tradition Conference
Plenary Panel: “Defining a Just Wage” (Mar. 22)
- Dan Graff, “Introducing the Higgins Labor Program’s Just Wage Framework and Tool”
- Charlice Hurst, “The Equal Pay Movement: Are We Prioritizing the Poor?”
- Eve Kelly, “Martha Don’t You Moan: The Emotional Labor of Women in the Service Sector”
- Clemens Sedmak, “Excessive Wages”
Catholic Social Teaching and the Dignity of Labor
Thursday, February 21, 2019
St. Clement Catholic Church
Chicago, IL
2019 Clement Speaker Series
Catholic Social Teaching and the Dignity of Labor
Dan Graff
Director, Higgins Labor Program at the Center for Social Concerns, and Professor of the Practice, History
Members of ARISE Chicago, an interfaith coalition advocating for worker rights, in particular vulnerable and low-wage workers
Notre Dame Ethics Week 2019: Economic Inequality: on Campuses, in Communities and at Companies
Tuesday-Friday, February 12-15, 2019
Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership, Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame
Introducing a Just Wage Framework and Tool Rooted in the Catholic Social Tradition (Feb. 14) [watch video]
Dan Graff
Director, Higgins Labor Program at the Center for Social Concerns, and Professor of the Practice, History
Charlice Hurst
Assistant Professor, Management & Organization
Labor Day in December
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Berrien, MI
Berrien Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Envisioning a Just Wage Economy
Dan Graff
Director, Higgins Labor Program at the Center for Social Concerns, and Professor of the Practice, History
CSC Research Seminar
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Geddes Coffee House
University of Notre Dame
Introducing a Just Wage Framework and Tool Rooted in the Catholic Social Tradition
- Clemens Sedmak
- Dan Graff
- Anna Scartz
- Cindy Lee
Just Wage Symposium
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Notre Dame Washington Program Facility
1608 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036
In addition to the unveiling of our Just Wage Framework and Tool (by Professors Graff and Hurst), the event featured remarks by four experts speaking from differing perches on the just wage question:
Dan Graff
Director, Higgins Labor Program at the Center for Social Concerns, and Professor of the Practice, History
Charlice Hurst
Assistant Professor, Management & Organization
Congressman Brendan Boyle
Pennsylvania’s 13th District
Sr. Quincy Howard, O.P.
NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
Ms. Maria Elena Durazo
Vice President, UNITE HERE
Rev. Kevin Sandberg, C.S.C.
Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame
Just Wage Working Group Inaugural Research Workshop
Friday, March 31, 2017
Geddes Hall Coffee House
University of Notre Dame
Unless otherwise noted, individuals are affiliated with the University of Notre Dame.
8:30 a.m.
Director, Higgins Labor Program, and Professor of the Practice, Department of History
8:45 a.m.
“Decent Life and the Means to Cultivate it Worthily”: Reflections on Catholic Social Tradition
Sofia Carozza
Undergraduate student (Neuroscience & Theology ’19) and officer, ND Students for Worker Justice
Visiting Professor of Catholic Social Tradition and Community Engagement, Center for Social Concerns and Keough School of Global Affairs
1st Response
Leadership Rotation Program, University of Notre Dame
Discussion
9:30 a.m.
Worker Centers, Low-Wage Workers, and “Scaling Up” Just Workplace Standards
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Michigan
1st Response
Clinical Professor of Law
Discussion
10:15 a.m.
BREAK
10:30 a.m.
Immigration, Outsourcing, and Unjust Wages: How Wage Injustice Interrupts Solidarity
Assistant Professor of Theology, Loyola University Chicago
1st Response
Associate Professor of Sociology
Discussion
11:15 a.m.
Labor Unions, Wages, and the Fight for Dignity at Work
Stuart Mora
President, Indiana Chapter of UNITE HERE Local 23
1st Response
Assistant Professor of Management
Discussion
Noon
BREAK
12:15 p.m.
Just Wage(s)? Economic Amnesia and the Importance of History
Director, Higgins Labor Program, and Professor of the Practice, Department of History
1st Response
Katie Luotto
Undergraduate student (History ‘17) and officer, Student Worker Participation Committee
Discussion
12:50 p.m.
LUNCH
Benediction
Christine Cervenak
Associate Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights
Plenary
Facilitated by Clemens Sedmak, Visiting Professor of Catholic Social Tradition and Community Engagement, Center for Social Concerns and Keough School of Global Affairs