Dr. James C. Benton is the Director of the Race and Economic Empowerment Project at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
We will be discussing a multi-day virtual conference open to the public scheduled for this Wednesday, April 28 to Saturday, May 1st called Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class.
Sign up here: https://lwp.georgetown.edu/virtual-gathering-constructing-a-new-social-compact-a-public-forum-on-empowering-the-post-pandemic-working-class/
James is a U.S. historian who studies labor history and the ways in which organized labor has been affected by trade policy, economic change, and industrial decline from the New Deal to the present. He earned a Ph.D. in United States history and a masters’ degrees in history and liberal studies from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In this conversation, we discuss:
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