Why Does Labour Matter?
The Past, Present, and Future of Labour
and Labour Studies
Organizing in the Face of Crisis: Struggles for Workers' Rights and Environmental Justice
- Mylène Fauvel
Summary
For several years now, workers have been facing multiple crises: the rise of the right wing, austerity policies, precarious employment conditions, attacks on union rights, impoverishment, the climate crisis, and more. These threats come at a time when progressive social movements appear fragmented and face major challenges in terms of organization and unity. In the face of these challenges, what strategies for action should be prioritized? How can past struggles inspire or teach us? What issues should be prioritized in future mobilizations?
Biographies
Karmah has been formerly an Amazon worker and an Amazon organizer for 6 years, working on a unionization effort in Toronto.
Joseph A. McCartin is an expert on U.S. labor, social, and political history. He has taught at Georgetown University since 1999, where he has offered courses in U.S. Labor History, Recent U.S. Political Economy, U.S. Since 1945, America Between the Wars, Modern U.S. State and Society, and 20th-21st Century U.S. Social History. McCartin is the 2024-26 president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association, a member of the board of the Catholic Labor Network, a founding member of the board of the Interreligous Network for Worker Solidarity, a contributing editor to Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, and a member of the International Advisory Board/Conseil Consultatif international, Labour/Le Travail.
François Geoffroy a cofondé le mouvement La Planète s’invite, qu’il a coordonné de 2018 à 2022. Il y a organisé la campagne de mobilisation syndicale ayant mené à la première grève climatique des travailleurs, lors de la mobilisation historique du 27 septembre 2019. En 2021, il a cofondé TJC, qu’il dirige depuis. Il a aussi été conseiller à la mobilisation au Syndicat des enseignantes et enseignants du Cégep Montmorency (FNEEQ-CSN).