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-11 posts tagged "Higgins Labor Program"
Jenna Abu-Lughod | Monday, September 4, 2023
Labor Day is celebrated annually on the first Monday of September and many workers across the country are given the day off. At Notre Dame, while administrative offices are closed, classes remain in session. “The University is obligated to conduct a specific number of academic instruction days during the academic year,” University spokesperson Susan Ryan
Kelsey Quint | Monday, May 1, 2023
Each month, the Center for Social Concerns transforms the Geddes Hall Coffee House into a forum for discussion, debate and caffeine. Notre Dame community members gathered Friday to discuss issues affecting workers in the spring semester’s final installment of the Labor Cafe. As always, Dan Graff, history professor and director of the Higgins Labor Program,
Peter Breen | Monday, October 3, 2022
Members of the Notre Dame community convened Friday evening in Geddes Hall, the home of the Center for Social Concerns (CSC), for the first Labor Cafe of the fall semester. Dan Graff, history professor and the Higgins Labor Program director at the CSC, kicked off the conversation. “[The Labor Cafe] is the longest running vehicle
Cristina Interiano | Monday, November 11, 2019
What makes a wage just or unjust? The Just Wage Working Group is working to spark dialogue around this question through the development of the Just Wage Tool and Framework, a Higgins Labor Studies Program initiative through the Center for Social Concerns. The web tool was released on Friday, and is currently available through the
Mary Steurer | Friday, September 20, 2019
Members of the Notre Dame community discussed how colleges and universities can set the standard for fair labor practices in a panel titled “From Sweatshops to Sweating Audits” in the Hesburgh and Joyce Dining Rooms of the Morris Inn Thursday. The panel was preceded by a presentation from Student Worker Participation Committee members senior Anna
Madison Bollenbacher | Friday, September 7, 2018
Hoping to open up a discussion on how to have ethical and and productive debates, the University Writing Program, the Higgins Labor Program, the Student Coalition for Immigration Advocacy, the Snite Museum and the Young Americans for Freedom jointly hosted a panel Thursday night in the Geddes coffee house. John Duffy, associate professor of English
Alexandra Muck | Wednesday, August 29, 2018
While the Higgins Labor Program has been around in various forms since the early 1990s, current director Daniel Graff, who has a joint appointment in the history department, is focused on bringing together the research and student engagement sides of the program. Graff, who was appointed director in 2014, said Higgins was originally founded by
Andrew Cameron | Monday, April 10, 2017
In Friday’s installment of the Higgins Labor Program’s (HLP) Labor Cafe discussions, members of the Notre Dame community gathered in the Geddes Hall Coffee House to discuss the supply chains of Notre Dame licensees Students from the Center for Social Concerns Fall 2016 Human Trafficking Seminar delivered a presentation on the the topic titled “Exploring the Risk of Forced
Alexandra Muck | Sunday, February 26, 2017
The Higgins Labor Cafe on Friday provided an update on Notre Dame’s licensing pilot program implemented in October 2015 and took student and community input for how to proceed. All Notre Dame licensed goods, which include anything that has the Notre Dame logo on it, are produced by other brands, which usually outsource the actual
Natalie Weber | Wednesday, September 7, 2016
What are the origins of Labor Day? What is a just wage? How are racial justice and workers’ rights intertwined? These are all questions one might discuss for project or discussion group sponsored by the Higgins Labor Program, part of the Center for Social Concerns. According to the Center for Social Concerns’ website, the Higgins Labor