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Immigrant
Workers' History in the United States, 1877 to the Present Jeannette Gabriel Thursdays, 6:00 - 7:30pm April 7 - May 19 This class will study the impact that immigrant
workers have had on the history of the American working class. We will
analyze six historical moments when immigrant workers have made significant
contributions to workers rights. We will study the ways in which the
community-workplace model, which immigrant workers have embraced more readily
than craft or industrial unionism, has promoted women's activism. This course
will examine how immigrant workers have been a central radicalizing force
throughout recent labor history. There will be no class on April 28. Jeannette Gabriel is an activist and student of American working class history at
the CUNY Graduate Center. She currently organizes with immigrant workers in
New Jersey around issues of worker and civil rights. She has been fighting
against illegal detention and torture of immigrants since 9/11. Her primary
research focus is on feminist and radical currents within worker and
unemployment movements. |