This page gathers work by students and faculty produced in connection with the UWB Labor Studies Colloquium.
Policing Seattle:
How labor, migration, and police violence shaped the urban northwest in the 20th century. This story map was created by MA in Cultural Studies students Cat Huber and Mary Mobarak, together with UW Political Science graduate student Thomas Locke. It was supervised by Professor Dan Berger and began out of his class Prisons, Politics, and Activism, and was supported in part by funding from the Harry Bridges Center.
Labor Stories During Pandemic Times:
This is an advanced creative writing and arts course focused on the practice of creative writing, storytelling and other arts practices, with a focus on investigating and exploring the exacerbated, economic fault lines for working class lives in times of crisis. This course is the culmination of a year of online talks featuring visiting scholars and artists, coordinated by the University of Washington Bothell Labor Studies Colloquium. In Spring 2021, students worked in collaborative teams to produce zines to understand historical and current conditions of work, labor, educational pathways to work and labor as well as alternative and educational pathway narratives in partnership with Aileen’s, Massage Parlor Outreach Project, the Northshore School District’s Racial & Educational Justice Teams, Regeneration Farm, Root & Rabbit Farm, Sariwa Farms and Viva Farms. View zines from the 2021 class below!