Launching the Kalmanovitz Initiative
Launching the Kalmanovitz Initiative
A Labor Historian’s Labor History
In this chapter, the author describes the ways in which he was able to combine activism with his position as a labor history teacher at Georgetown University. In particular, he explains his role in the creation of a labor initiative at Georgetown, the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, and the achievements of that initiative, which included facilitating both conversation and collaboration between various labor representatives and incubating new ideas, such as Georgetown's Just Employment Policy. The author points out that this level of engagement requires institutional and personal commitments of time and resources. Although he was not able to teach or research in the same ways he had previously while working on the initiative, he argues that the kinds of engaged teaching and scholarship he did undertake were more meaningful.
Keywords: activism, labor history, Georgetown University, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, collaboration, Just Employment Policy, engaged teaching, engaged scholarship
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