Organizing for Economic Justice in the New Economy

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Even as a period of high profile worker organizing, the overall rate of workers in unions continues to decline. Income inequality continues at a historically high rate. A growing category of people - "gig workers" - don't even know if they have an employer. The right to unionize has been eviscerated. In the face of these trends, how can working people organize and mobilize for economic justice? And what does the law do to enable or impede their…