Labor Curious? Visit the Labor Café, where ND talks work!
The Labor Café convenes the Notre Dame community for casual conversation on contemporary questions about work, workers, and workplaces. What rights and protections should those who work for others have? What's the proper role for government in the economy? How should we address enduring problems of inequality, poverty, and lack of opportunity? And what does Catholic Social Teaching have to say about these labor questions? Participants choose the concrete topics, all people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained.
The Labor Café Persists Virtually in the Spring 2021 Semester! Join us via Zoom on the first Friday of each month.
Next up:
Friday, March 5, 2021, 5:00–6:00 p.m.
Topic: The Care Economy: What is it? Who works in it, and why are they paid so poorly? And what is the Biden Administration's vision for it?
Facilitator: Dan Graff, Director, Higgins Labor Program
Resources to get the conversation started:
- Ai-jen Poo, "How 'Roma' Reveals the Complex Reality of Domestic Work," The Hollywood Reporter, Dec. 14, 2018
- Ai-jen Poo, "The People Who Look After Your Children Deserve Basic Rights," New York Times, Jul. 14, 2019
- William E. Spriggs, "Building Back the Care Economy," The American Prospect, Oct. 21, 2020
- David Dayen, "An Interview With Ai-jen Poo," The American Prospect, Oct. 21, 2020
- Ellen Wulfhorst, "U.S. domestic workers seen better off under Biden presidency," Reuters, Nov. 12, 2020
- Carrie N. Baker, "A New Era for Women: Biden’s Plan to Invest in Workers and Families," Ms., Feb. 10, 2021
Note: This session of the Labor Café serves as a lead-in to the virtual visit by Ai-jen Poo, Cofounder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Worker Alliance, on Thursday, March 11, at 7pm. Poo is the inaugural speaker in the Distinguished Asian American Speaker Series of the Notre Dame's Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. The Higgins Labor Program is a proud cosponsor of Poo's talk.
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