Power At Work Power At Work Blogcast #74: 2024: A Year in Review
In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Saba Waheed, the Research Director at the UCLA Labor Center, and Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University. Watch now to learn about the most significant worker power stories over the past year. Also hear Givan and Waheed's perspectives on employer backlash as well as their takes on the overall current state of labor heading into 2025.
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Rebecca Givan is an associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She has published widely on employment relations in health care, comparative welfare states and labor studies in journals such as Social Forces, ILR Review, and British Journal of Industrial Relations. Her book The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom was published in 2016 by Cornell University Press.
Saba Waheed is Research Director at the UCLA Labor Center. She has nearly twenty years of research experience developing projects with strong community participation. With her team at the UCLA Labor Center, she coordinated the first-ever study of domestic work employers, launched a multi-year study of workers and learners, and conducted research on the impact of the pandemic on nail salon workers and owners. She has also conducted research related to gig workers, young workers, Black workers, LGBTQ+ grocery workers and retail workers. Saba teaches the Labor Summer Research Program, guiding students through an applied research project.