Join us for Assistant Professor Loustaunau‘s lecture examining the ongoing connection between productive and reproductive labor, as well as how vulnerable migrant workers are organizing against poverty and precarity.
November 19, 2024 @ 11:45 am – 12:45 pm @ 206 Ingraham Hall or join online ZOOM REGISTRATION
About the presentation: This presentation will discuss and analyze the multifaceted struggles spearheaded primarily by migrant Latinas working in the food processing sector in the Pacific Northwest during the COVID-19 pandemic. It seeks to unravel the intricate ways in which these workers intertwine their demands over labor conditions with the broader conditions of life-making. This is achieved by mobilizing resistance and employing organizing tactics that are not only rooted in traditional labor organizing but also extend to encompass broader community building strategies. Based on in-depth interviews, focus groups, and participant observation, I mobilize Social Reproduction Theory to gain insight about how these workers struggles point to the ongoing connections between productive and reproductive labor, as well as show new paths under which vulnerable migrant workers are organizing against poverty and precarity.
This free event is hosted by UW-Madison Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program and can be accessed online or in-person.