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SUMMARY:Academic Trade Unionism and the Union Democracy Movement in the U.
 S - Katy Fox-Hodess (Berkeley)\, Amanda Armstrong (Michigan)
DTSTART:20170426T161500Z
DTEND:20170426T174500Z
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CONTACT:Waseem Yaqoob
DESCRIPTION:map: https://goo.gl/tbT20G\n\nA talk on the future of grassroo
 ts union democracy and political unionism from the perspective of organisi
 ng in academic institutions\, by two lead organisers in UAW 2865\, the Uni
 versity of California labor union which represents 13\,000 graduate studen
 t teaching assistants from across the state of California.\n\n*Katy Fox-Ho
 dess* is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of California
 \, Berkeley. A long-time activist in the trade union movement\, Katy is th
 e former Berkeley campus Chair of the UAW 2865 \, the University of Califo
 rnia labor union which represents 13\,000 graduate student teaching assist
 ants from across the state of California. She will be discussing UAW 2865 
 ’s vision of left-wing political unionism and grassroots union democracy
 .\n\nAmanda Armstrong is an Assistant Professor in History and member of t
 he Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. She works on the hist
 ory of anti-colonial and industrial unionism across the British imperial w
 orld\, and has published widely on labour struggles and recent dynamics in
  higher education. She was a lead activist in the Berkeley branch of the U
 C Student-Workers' Union\, organising against university privatization.\n\
 nThe fourth in Cambridge-Anglia Ruskin’s UCU Trade Union and Labour Hist
 ory series\, co-sponsored by the journal Renewal: www.renewal.org.uk. See 
 our Youtube channel "here":https://goo.gl/A2R9Td.
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Foundress Court\, Pembroke College
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