October 5, 2006
‘Labor, Knowledge and Economy’ forum planned
A public forum, “Organizing our Futures: Labor, Knowledge and the Economy,” will be held on Oct. 13 and 14 on campus. Sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, the forum will bring together scholars, labor officials, business representatives and technologists to discuss how the increasingly knowledge-based global economy will reshape labor markets and how such changes should affect current policy.
The keynote speakers are Robert Kuttner, founding editor of The American Prospect, and Chris Benner, professor of geography at the University of Pennsylvania. Kuttner’s address, Making Technology Work for Workers, will be at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13 in 130 Kane. Benner will speak on Next Generation Unionism: Power and the Informational Labor Process at a luncheon on Saturday, Oct. 14. There will also be three plenary panels and industry-specific and special issue panels on Saturday.
Free tickets for Kuttner’s lecture are available at the University Book Store. Tickets for the luncheon and Benner speech are $10 and can be obtained from the Bridges center at pcls@u.washington.edu, or 206-543-7946.
For more information go to http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/lke.htm.
