Women & Transnational Labor Solidarity (March 8)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 13:47:39 -0500
From: Cathy Rakowski <rakowski.1 at osu.edu>
To: osuwid at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu, 
wostfac at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu, womgrdst at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Final reminder March 8 event: Mary Margaret Fonow

This is the final reminder for this event.

OSU-WID and the Department of Women's Studies

present

Mary Margaret Fonow

      
"Transnational Labor Solidarity in the Age of Globalization: Union 
Women Respond to NAFTA"

Place: 311 Denney (English Commons Room)
Date and Time: March 8, 11:30-1 (talk begins at 11:45)
Bring your brown bag lunch

Abstract:
International labor networks are providing working-class women with 
the opportunity to construct transnational networks of solidarity. 
Dr. Fonow will examine the way women activists in the Steelworkers 
Union and in Mexico's Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (Authentic Labor 
Front) are using these networks to mobilize women workers in the 
NAFTA trading block to participate in various forms of free trade 
activism.  Some of the questions to be addressed are: Is solidarity 
possible?  What's at stake?  What are the promises and perils of 
constructing women's rights as labor rights?

About the speaker:
Mary Margaret Fonow of the Department of  Women's Studies at the Ohio 
State University is currently writing a book on women's activism in 
the United Steelworkers of America.  Her areas of interest are women 
and work, feminist methodology, and social movements.  She is a 
member of the University's Labor Advisory Group.

No reservations are necessary for this talk.