Lecture
Monday 23.06
at 20:00
Prof. Gordon Lafer will talk about:
A New Way of Fighting the Power: How Intellectuals and Workers Can Triumph Over Employers Through Creative Strategic Planning Based on a Case Study of Hawaii Hotel Workers
Prof. Gordon Lafer has a PhD in political science from Yale. He has been a professor in the labor studies research center of Oregon University since 1997. Lafer was a central activist in many workers struggles, including construction workers in Las Vegas, supermarket workers in California, Hotel workers in Hawaii and hospital workers in Oregon. Prof. Lafer was one of the leaders of the junior staff in Yale university in 1995. prof. Lafer’s book “The Job Training Charade” analyzes the political use of non effective job training programs in order to blame the poor for their poverty and release the government from seriously dealing with the poverty problem.
