About this Event
Please join the New York Labor History Association and the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Libraries, in collaboration with LaborArts, to mark the 10th Annual Bernhardt Award with a Forum focused on labor and the 2024 election.
Thursday October 17 6 - 7:30pm EST | Free
Bobst Library | 2nd Floor | North Reading Room
70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012
Event will also be live streamed.
RSVP required.
AWARD - The 2024 Bernhardt Labor Journalism prize winner will be announced at the end of September.
FORUM - "Election 2024: What's at Stake for Labor" with Alethia Jones (labor activist and educator), Lucia Gomez (NYC CLC political director) and Eric Blanc (organizer and labor studies professor).
The prize and the forum honor the late Debra E. Bernhardt, who worked in so many different realms to share the hidden histories of working people. As head of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, she reached out to an astonishing number of people and organizations to document undocumented stories and unrecognized contributions, and to make links between past and present. The LaborArts project is dedicated to Bernhardt, and the online exhibit, Making History Personal, explores her work. Debra Bernhardt and Rachel Bernstein's Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives – A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City, features many of the materials Bernhardt brought to the Wagner Labor Archives.
PANEL PARTICIPANTS
Alethia Jones is a Distinguished Lecturer in Labor Studies at CUNY's School of Labor and Urban Studies, and in the early 2000s, as Co-Associate Director of The Murphy Institute, she helped launch the Union Semester program. She served as Director of the Fellowships Program for the Open Society Foundations, and as Director of Education and Leadership Development for 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. She has taught at SUNY Albany and M.I.T., and held fellowships at the University of Virginia, Mount Holyoke College, and the Ford Foundation.
Lucia Gomez is Political Director of the NYC Central Labor Council – AFL-CIO. Prior to joining the NYC CLC, Lucia was the Director of Organizing and Strategic Partnerships for LiUNA/ New York State Laborers’ Union Local 78. In different capacities, her life’s work has been around empowering Latinos, immigrants and their communities to take action through grassroots organizing, leadership development and civic engagement.
Eric Blanc s an assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of and . His writings have appeared in journals such as Politics & Society, New Labor Forum, and Labor Studies Journal as well as publications such as The Nation, The Guardian, and Jacobin. A longtime labor activist, Blanc is an organizer trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Bobst Library | 2nd Floor | North Reading Room, 70 Washington Square South, New York, United States
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