{"id":70681,"date":"2021-02-24T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=70681"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:24:21","slug":"brock-labour-studies-to-welcome-teen-vogue-columnist-for-virtual-public-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/02\/brock-labour-studies-to-welcome-teen-vogue-columnist-for-virtual-public-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Labour Studies to welcome Teen Vogue columnist for virtual public event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journalist and organizer Kim Kelly, best known for her \u201cNo Class\u201d column at Teen Vogue<\/em>, will speak on youth, work and the future of the labour movement at a free online event hosted by Brock\u2019s Department of Labour Studies and the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) Thursday, March 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cKim Kelly is one of the most dynamic labour journalists working today and Teen Vogue<\/em> is a magazine that has become a voice of millennial activism with more than 10 million readers every month, the vast majority between 16 and 24,\u201d says Simon Black, Assistant Professor in the Department of Labour Studies. \u201cKim writes about unions, labour history and workers’ rights in a really informed, compelling but also accessible way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly will also be a familiar face to those who follow her popular Twitter feed<\/a> and her current coverage of the union organizing drive at an Amazon distribution centre in Alabama, an unfolding situation that Black calls \u201cone of the most important labour struggles in years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s work on labour, class, politics and culture and her ability to break down complex issues for her audience has helped bring these ideas to the attention of to readers who may have little other exposure to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnions, labour history, workers’ rights and labour studies are not prioritized in high school education,\u201d says Black. \u201cSome young people learn about unions because they have a parent who is a union member \u2014 or just as likely, a parent who doesn’t like unions and is vocal about it \u2014 but many young people are just not exposed to unions nor are they taught their rights at work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black thinks Kelly\u2019s talk will help prospective and current students to understand how important their work in the field of labour studies is, especially at this moment in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the COVID-19 pandemic, young people are facing labour market challenges that no generation has faced since perhaps the Great Depression,\u201d Black says. \u201cKim has written so many stories about young people coming together and fighting for a better world of work, so I think Kim’s talk will give the audience hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Larry Savage, who also serves as President of CAWLS, says the organization is thrilled to be co-sponsoring the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cPartnering with labour studies departments on a national speaker series provides an important forum to keep work and labour studies researchers connected, especially during the pandemic,\u201d says Savage. \u201cIt also plays a key role in stimulating discussion and debate in society more broadly about the future of work and labour relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone is welcome to attend this free, public talk.<\/p>\n

What:<\/strong> Labour Studies x Kim Kelly<\/a>
\nWhere:<\/strong> Register free online to attend via Lifesize<\/a>
\nWhen:<\/strong> Thursday, March 4 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Journalist and organizer Kim Kelly, best known for her \u201cNo Class\u201d column at Teen Vogue, will speak on youth, work and the future of the labour movement at a free online event hosted by Brock\u2019s Department of Labour Studies and the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) Thursday, March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":70682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,7,3319,1,4,38],"tags":[10006,703,110,522,10008,4358,3856,10007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70683,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70681\/revisions\/70683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}