Transiency, Stability, and Rejection of Migrant Workers in Late Capitalism, a Paradoxical Situation

Transiency, Stability, and Rejection of Migrant Workers in Late Capitalism, a Paradoxical Situation

with Dr. Vivian Price

Tuesday, October 29, 2:30-4:00

York University (Keele campus)

Kaneff Tower, 857

Discussant: Chris Little

Moderator: María Constanza Guzmán

This event will be hybrid:

https://yorku.zoom.us/j/93083364884?pwd=HJC9pwA2L6XUbcmyq1b6gUkcnZiXBk.1

Meeting ID: 930 8336 4884

Passcode: 997954

Vivian Price, PhD, is a Professor of Interdisciplinary and of Labor Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills.  A former union electrician, Dr. Price is a researcher and filmmaker for local and international projects on labour and climate justice. Her films include Harvest of Loneliness, which explores the Bracero Program—in which, from 1942-1964, millions of Mexican men were brought as contract farm workers—and its role in Mexican immigration to the US; and Talking Union, Talking Climate, centering experiences of gendered and racialized identity and climate. Recent publications include “Times are Changing, Minds are also Changing, Patriarchy and Neoliberalism in the Construction Industry” and “A Green New Deal for all: The centrality of a worker and community-led just transition in the US.”