Labor and the Crisis of Democracy:  

Working-Class Politics in an Age of Authoritarianism

 

Conference sponsored by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. 

Co-sponsored by the Cornell Worker Institute

 

Thu. May 8  &  Fri. May 9, 2025

 

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

25 West 43rd Street, 18th floor, New York, NY 10036 (map)

 

REGISTER:  slucuny.swoogo.com/8May2025/register

 

 

Featuring:

THURSDAY MORNING KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Becky Pringle - President, National Education Association

 

THURSDAY EVENING PUBLIC FORUM:

Bhairavi Desai - Board President, National Taxi Workers Alliance

Robin D.G. Kelley - Distinguished Professor and Chair in U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles

SungHee Oh - International Affairs Director, Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union

 

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY ACADEMIC AND PRACTITIONER PANELS

Including panels on the following topics:

- Organizing in Repressive Regimes

- Strikes

- Organizing in the U.S. / Navigating U.S. political context

- Learning from the 1930s

- Studying the Right Wing, Comparative Perspectives

- Intersectional Approaches to Organizing

 

 

REGISTER for more info, updates, and reminders:  

slucuny.swoogo.com/8May2025/register 

 

Becky Pringle

Bhairavi Desai

Robin D.G. Kelley

SungHee Oh