June 16-18. One of the principal goals of the Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is to create a space for the generation and exchange of fresh ideas and thinking among labor leaders, activists, scholars, and students. A secondary goal is to connect practitioners employing innovative strategies with scholars who are interested in strategic research and advocacy efforts that support workers/the struggle for workers; rights. The June LRAN conference will thus focus on two intersecting areas of work: innovative organizing campaigns (broadly defined, not limited to union initiatives) that are either informed by cutting-edge research or raise challenging questions researchers ought to explore further; and new research that sheds light on critical organizing issues.
Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor will host this two-day conference, which will be held at Georgetown Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001.
Featured Speakers
Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO
Douglas Blackmon, Author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Saru Jayaraman, Co-Founder and Co-Director, ROC United
David Rolf, President, SEIU Healthcare 775NW
We look forward to building on the excitement from our first two national conferences and expanding to a two-day format. Labor leaders, academics, activists, educators and organizers will gather for a spirited exchange of new ideas and fresh thinking about cutting edge campaigns and research.
Registration Fee
There is a conference registration fee of $100 for attendees ($50 for students/nonprofit allies, $150 for sponsors). If your organization is already a sponsor of the LRAN conference, please contact Erin Johansson at ejohansson@americanrightsatwork.org to register for the conference separately.
In addition to admission to the conference, this fee includes coffee in the morning and a boxed lunch in the afternoon.
To register, navigate to the LRAN Conference, June 2013 registration page.
Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among others. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones.