LABOR STUDIES

2011
Kendra Jason*
North Carolina State University

The Labor Studies Division is comprised of members who are advocates, scholars, activists and laborers interested workplace and workforce issues that shape, and are shaped by, economic and political forces. We see all workers - standard to contingent, paid to unpaid, and core to marginal- as equal contributors of a global network connected by labor. We believe that no person should be subject to discrimination, ill-treatment, or unwarranted subordination based on any social status or ideological hierarchy. We promote a society that recognizes all members of a diverse workforce with equality and democracy through fairness in wages, opportunities and respect. We aim to expose and oppose the malfeasance of any corporate and government sanctions that deny workers’ rights as basic human rights. With great urgency, we work to elevate workers, empower unions, build labor movement inertia, reveal exploitation by corporations and big business, and understand what’s new in the New Economy to prepare this and the next generation of labor activists.

*Chair, Labor Studies, 2009-2011