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Bloomington Labor Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series, Spring 2012

Voting Behavior in Postindustrial Political Economies: Implications for Labor

Timothy Hellwig Assistant Professor, Political Science

Across the advanced industrial democracies of Europe and North America, it has been conventional wisdom that voting decisions are shaped by some mix of long-standing social divisions like class, religion, and region, on the one hand, and short-term perceptions of the economy and issue positions, on the other. In this talk, I discuss how occupational changes in post-industrial economies have changed traditional bases for voter attachment to political parties. Drawing on research of voting behavior in several countries, I show how belonging to particular occupational groups and to certain sectors of employment (public/private) affects whether and how citizens connect economic conditions and political issues to the vote decision. Implications for the political power of labor in the 21st century will be discussed.

Wednesday, April 4, 12:00 - 1:15 pm

Indiana Memorial Union Building, Walnut Room

900 E. Seventh Street, Bloomington, IN

Please bring your lunch or a snack and join us for a lively discussion.

For more information, or if you need an “A” parking pass, please call 812-855-9084. The Labor Studies Program website is: http://labor.iu.edu.

Labor Studies is co-sponsoring the following event: "Sowing Struggle: Urban and rural social movements in Tlaxcala, Mexico" featuring Luz Rivera Martinez of the Consejo National Urbano Campesino (CNUC).

 Friday, March 9, 2012 / 6:00-8:00pm Rachel’s Café - 300 E Third St., Bloomington

 Luz Rivera Martinez will speak about her 20 years of experience constructing autonomy, organizing outside the electoral system, and resisting free trade. Luz is an inspiring speaker and her talk will have important lessons for anyone interested in women's, peasant, and labor movements. Luz established CNUC in the 1980s to coordinate resistance to the impending North American Free Trade Agreement.

This talk is part of a Mexico Solidarity Network speaking tour. For more info on the tour and MSN, visit their website at http:// www.mexicosolidarity.org

Sponsored by the Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Labor Studies Program, Latino Studies Program, and Department of American Studies.

  •  Stepanka Korytova, Associate Faculty in the Labor Studies program, on the IU Bloomington campus, is the 2011 recipient of the Zirin Prize by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS). The Zirin Prize “aims to recognize the achievements of independent scholars and to encourage their continued scholarship and service in the fields of Slavic or Central and Eastern European Women\'s Studies.” The Zirin Prize Committee presented the award to Dr Korytova based “on both her track record of innovative scholarship and a current research agenda that promises to make an important intervention in Slavic women’s studies.” Dr Korytova has “amassed an impressive record of scholarship, including monographs in both English and Czech on immigration to the United States from the Czech and Slovak lands. She complicates the story of the American immigrant experience by focusing our attention on immigrants as not only recipients of charitable aid for newcomers, but as providers of assistance to members in their communities.”
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  • Professor Lynn Duggan, together with Nalini Visvanathan, Nan Wiegersma, and Laurie Nisonoff, co-edited The Women, Gender and Development Reader,(2nd ed.) published in summer 2011 by Zed Press.
    Reference: Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Nan Wiegersma and Laurie Nisonoff (Eds) (2nd ed.). The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London, UK: Zed Books. http://zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/the-women-gender-and-development-reader
  • Professor Lynn Duggan traveled to China in June for the conference of the International Association for Feminist Economists to present the paper “Social Policy is Environmental Policy: Paid Work, Unpaid Care Work, Gender, and Ecology”.