Protecting Workers’ Rights in a Post-Wisconsin World – Albany, NY

Albany Law Review presents Protecting Workers’ Rights in a Post-Wisconsin World Sept. 28, 2011. The symposium will examine the state of workers’ rights one hundred years after the Triangle Factory fire and in the wake of efforts to end public sector bargaining in Wisconsin. Article proposals should be submitted as soon as possible. Drafts will be due Oct. 1, 2011.

We welcome the submission of manuscripts on a broad range of labor law issues such as: the meaning of legislative efforts to curtail the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers; the future of the labor movement and workers’ rights in an increasingly transnational economy and labor market; unionism and politics; alternative forms of collective organizing and action in the public and private sectors; the state of low-income workers’ rights; and how the law can balance workers’ rights and public policy goals, particularly in a period of scarce resources.

Please send manuscripts you would like to be considered for inclusion in the issue to Nicholas Faso, Albany Law Review’s Executive Editor for Symposium at nfaso [at] albanylaw.edu. If you have not yet completed your manuscript, but would like to be considered for publication, please email Mr. Faso with an abstract as soon as possible. The final draft deadline is October 1, 2011.

Potential article topics include, but are not limited to: comparing public and private labor law; unionism and politics; the history of public unionism, workers’ rights, and public policy; the state of workers’ rights, especially immigrant and other disenfranchised workers; the meaning of legislative efforts to end or curtail the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers; how the law can balance workers’ rights and public policy; and alternative forms of collective organizing and action in the public and private sectors.

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