Labor@Wayne and the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues present, "Organizing Domestic Workers: A Community Discussion Panel." Join three, groundbreaking scholars at the Walter Reuther Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs as they discuss their work, projects, and research in domestic care worker organizing and its intersections with worker and economic justice. The community panel will host Heidi Gottfried, Mia Michael, and Jennifer Guglielmo (speaker bios below).

Heidi Gottfried

Heidi Gottfried received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1987. Her research interests span areas, ranging from sociology of work, the care economy, sociology of gender, welfare state, feminist theory, labor movements, to comparative political economy. She has co-edited numerous special issues and books on gender, work, and the economy, including the Handbook on the Sociology of Work and Employment (Sage, 2015).

Jennifer Guglielmo

Jennifer Guglielmo specializes in labor and working-class women's histories in the US. She is an associate professor of history at Smith College and the author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women'sResistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 (2010). Most recently, she co-directed a public history project with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, to bring the history of domestic worker organizing into the core of their political education curriculum. The project includes a digital timeline (dwherstories.com), two films, 17 workshops, all in 5 languages.

Mia Michael

The lives of working-class women of color and migrants in the United States lie at the heart of Mia's scholarly inquiry. Her research explores the prolonged struggle for dignity and legal rights they waged while employed as nannies, housecleaners and caretakers during the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Directing critical attention to the relatively obscure history of domestic worker organizing, Mia's scholarship joins others reconsidering how we characterize labor history.

The panel discussion, scheduled from 4PM to 6PM on February 27th in the Reuther Archives' second-floor conference room, will be followed by an audience Q&A, and food and beverages will be served.