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| Occupiers and Dreamers: Insiders and Outsiders in a New Political Generation |
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| Start Date: | 10/8/2015 | Start Time: | 1:40 PM |
| End Date: | 10/8/2015 | End Time: | 2:00 PM |
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Event Description:
Occupiers and Dreamers: Insiders and Outsiders in a New Political Generation
with The President of the American Sociological Association, Ruth Milkman
Thursday, October 8, 2015
1:40p - 4:00p
New Building, L61
This presentation analyzes how young people have contributed to two key political movements of our age: Occupy Wall Street and the demands of undocumented immigrant “Dreamers.” Both were led by “Millennials” (born between 1980 and 2000). I argue that Millennials comprise a new political generation, with a worldview that sets it apart from previous generations of U.S. activists. Their different social locations, in turn, led Occupiers and Dreamers to adopt different political strategies and organizational forms.
Ruth Milkman is a sociologist of
labor and labor movements who has written on a variety of topics involving work
and organized labor in the United States, past and present. Her most recent
book is Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the
Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy (Cornell University Press, 2013),
coauthored with Eileen Appelbaum. She has also written extensively
about low-wage immigrant workers in the United States, analyzing their
employment conditions as well as the dynamics of immigrant labor
organizing. She helped lead a multicity team that produced a widely
publicized study documenting the prevalence of wage theft and violations of
other workplace laws in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, and recently
coauthored a study of the Occupy Wall Street movement. In 2012–13 she
was the Matina S. Horner Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Radcliffe
Institute.
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