Migration, Culture and Labor: Movement Building in a Globalized World
Tues. March 22, 2011 :::: 4:00 - 5:30 PM :::: MUB Theater I
Speaker: Anannya Bhattacharjee
Founder, Society for Labour & Development
& President, Garment and Allied Workers Union (India)
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More about Anannya Bhattacharjee
Anannya is the President of Garment and Allied Workers Union that organizes garment workers in one of the largest production hubs in India. She is also founder of the Society for Labour and Development, a labor rights research and campaign organization in Delhi. Anannya has also been involved in the past in organizing South Asian household workers in the New York metropolitan area. In 1999, she was a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York in Columbia University and in 1998, was awarded the Activist-in-Residence fellowship from the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute in New York University. She writes and speaks widely on social justice work.
Co-Sponsored by:
Center for the Humanities
Department of Sociology
Comm-entary: UNH Undergraduate Research Journal of Communication
School of Law: Social Justice Institute
Humanities Program
Asian Studies
Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures