The Fraser Center for Workplace Issues' Lecture Series Presents:
Sedition and the Hand of Fraternity: Industrial Workers, Radical Unions, and the Forgotten Red Scare
By Professor Ahmed White, University of Wisconsin

Walter Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
5401 Cass Ave., Detroit MI 48202

2nd Floor Conference Room (#200)
Tuesday, April 15, 2025: 4:00-6:00 PM

Ahmed White is the James E. Jones Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin. He is a graduate of Southern University and Yale Law School where, after graduation, he was a researcher with the Program in Civil Liability. He was visiting professor at Northwestern University and, in 2000, joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Law School where he was later namedthe Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor. For most of his career, White's scholarship has focused on the history of law and labor relations from the early Twentieth Century through the New Deal period and on the viability of a functional system of labor rights in liberal society. He is one of the country's leading experts on the history of labor repression, which is a major subject of his two acclaimed books, Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, & the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America (2016) and Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers (2022).

This event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served.

Made possible by the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, Labor@Wayne, the Walter Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne Law, and the Departments of History and Political Science.