The Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) is an inspirational educational program that provides women with the leadership vision, confidence and skills to become more effective leaders and organizers in the labor movement and workplace in Massachusetts.
"UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart." Site includes downloadable workshops.
Industrial Organizational & Labour Studies Research Unit, University of KwaZulu-Natal. "IOLS-Research believes that trade unions are an important part of our national heritage. This is informed by the historical processes involved in the formation of trade unions in South Africa and their incremental role in overcoming apartheid. The fact that Durban served as the site in which the militant labour movement emerged onto the national stage is one of the key inspirations driving the unit.”
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LAWCHA is an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators, and activists who seek to promote public and scholarly awareness of labor and working-class history through research, writing, and organizing.
The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, at the University of Washington, supports a network of scholars in cutting-edge research, education, and outreach about work, workers and their organizations. The Center engages students in labor studies through courses and field work. We promote connections between students, faculty, and labor communities locally and around the world, and inform policy makers about issues confronting workers.
The Labor Studies program at CSU Dominguez Hills began in 1977 to provide Southern California with the only state-supported Bachelor of Arts program in this field. Our program is designed with the assistance of state and local labor leaders, coordinated with Labor Studies programs at nearby community colleges, with students’ needs in mind. Labor Studies focuses upon all aspects of working life from the point of view of workers. Emphasis is placed on understanding the labor movement as it relates to historical, economic, and social issues of the twenty-first century. The Labor Studies Program offers a major, a minor, a certificate program, and an interdisciplinary special Masters Degree
LOHP is a community outreach program in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley whose work addresses today's workplace health and safety needs in nearly every industry, from healthcare to agriculture to construction. The staff of educators and technical experts provides information, training, and other assistance to unions, workers, community organizations, health professionals, joint labor-management groups, government, and schools.
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