This conference explores questions about the future of work in America through the lens of the Green New Deal.
University Club, Arizona State University
425 E. University Dr.
Tempe, AZ 85281
Fri, Nov 1, 2019, 1:00 PM + Sat, Nov 2, 2019, 6:00 PM
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About this Free Event
by Benjamin Fong
The dire predictions of the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change point to the need for sweeping social transformations in order to avoid the mass suffering that global warming promises.
Recently popularized by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement, the Green New Deal offers a powerful framework for achieving rapid decarbonization through the creation of green infrastructure and a federal jobs program.
“The Green New Deal and the Future of Work in America” explores questions about the future of work in America through the lens of the Green New Deal, including:
The core thesis of the Center is that the biggest problem that confronts efforts to realize democracy and economic justice is not a lack of policy ideas or an absence of support or resources, but the limitations of politics itself. The goal of the Center is to produce work that contributes to the understanding necessary to rebuild a politics of the majority while furthering a broader democratic renewal.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST
1-1:30pm: Opening Remarks
3:45-5:15pm: A Planet to Win
5:30-7pm: Keynote Address: Frances Fox Piven, CUNY
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND
10am-12pm: How do we achieve the political support and will to win a Green New Deal?
1:15-3:45pm: What is a "just transition"?
4-6pm: The broader political opening of the fight against climate change
All our welcome to join conference speakers at the Normal Restaurant at the Graduate Hotel for drinks and dinner immediately following the closing panel on Saturday (though we will not be paying for everyone).
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Speakers:
Hillary Angelo, UC Santa Cruz - Alyssa Battistoni, Yale/Jacobin - Aaron Benanav, University of Chicago - Harry Boyte, Augsburg - Mijin Cha, Occidental - Daniel Aldana Cohen, UPenn - Stephen Cohen, UC Berkeley - Kate Knuth, University of Minnesota - Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, SUNY - Stephanie Luce, CUNY - Clark Miller, ASU - Harvey Molotch, NYU - Frances Fox Piven, CUNY - Dave Regan, SEIU-UHW - Wilson Sherwin, CUNY - Todd Vachon, Rutgers - Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
Organizers: Craig Calhoun, ASU - Benjamin Y. Fong, ASU
Recently popularized by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement, the Green New Deal offers a powerful framework for achieving rapid decarbonization through the creation of green infrastructure and a federal jobs program.
“The Green New Deal and the Future of Work in America” explores questions about the future of work in America through the lens of the Green New Deal, including:
- How would a Green New Deal shape and address transformations in the nature of work in America? How would a federal jobs guarantee change working-class economic and political life? How do we win a federal jobs guarantee that helps alleviate racial and gendered income disparities?
- How do we achieve the rapid decarbonization of the economy needed to stave off the worst of climate catastrophe while still producing the energy needed for a high quality of life? What are the most important technologies, infrastructures, and industries to invest in? What kinds of new jobs do we need? What kinds of jobs will be eliminated? And what does a true "just transition" look like?
- How can the Green New Deal be won in such a way that benefits public rather than only private interests, not just in terms of state ownership but rather in terms of a commitment to public projects and goods? Can public sector work take on a new dynamism, perhaps even becoming "mission-driven"?
- What kind of political mobilizations/strategic alliances will need to be built in order to win a Green New Deal? What sectors of capital will be friendly and hostile to a Green New Deal? What are the obstacles to gaining organized labor's support of a Green New Deal?
- How should the GND combine national government leadership with grassroots, local, and state action (including cooperatives and other forms of direct action such as were important to the original New Deal)? How does local work matter in the face of global climate catastrophe?
The core thesis of the Center is that the biggest problem that confronts efforts to realize democracy and economic justice is not a lack of policy ideas or an absence of support or resources, but the limitations of politics itself. The goal of the Center is to produce work that contributes to the understanding necessary to rebuild a politics of the majority while furthering a broader democratic renewal.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST
1-1:30pm: Opening Remarks
- Dave Regan, SEIU-UHW
- Craig Calhoun, ASU
- Stephen Cohen, UC Berkeley: “Intelligent Design”
- Hillary Angelo, UC Santa Cruz: “Landscapes for politics: Labor and leisure in the Green New Deal”
- Richard Walker, UC Berkeley: “A Green New Deal and Working People: Lessons from the Original New Deal”
- Respondent: Evan Berry, ASU
3:45-5:15pm: A Planet to Win
- Daniel Aldana Cohen, UPenn: “A Green New Deal for Housing and the Labor Question”
- Alyssa Battistoni, Harvard/Jacobin: “From Pink Collar to #RedforEd: For an Expanded View of Green Jobs”
- Respondent: Hanna Breetz, ASU
5:30-7pm: Keynote Address: Frances Fox Piven, CUNY
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND
10am-12pm: How do we achieve the political support and will to win a Green New Deal?
- Harvey Molotch, NYU: “Growth Machines Take Our Breath Away”
- Harry Boyte, Augsburg: “A We the People Green New Deal”
- Kate Knuth, University of Minnesota: “Forging an American Identity to Deliver on the Promise of the Green New Deal”
- Respondent: Juan Mendez, Arizona State Senator, LD26
1:15-3:45pm: What is a "just transition"?
- Todd Vachon, Rutgers: “Fancy Funeral or Radical Rebirth? Just Transition and the Future of Work(ers) in the U.S.”
- Mijin Cha, Occidental: “Do the ends justify the means?: The challenges of just transition and the Powder River Basin, Wyoming”
- Wilson Sherwin, CUNY: “Does Everyone Want a Job? Lessons from the past for alternative futures”
- Aaron Benanav, University of Chicago: “Between Green Growth and Eco-Abundance”
- Respondent: Jose Lobo, ASU
4-6pm: The broader political opening of the fight against climate change
- Clark Miller, ASU: “Designing Future Political Economies through Energy Innovation”
- Stephanie Luce, CUNY: “Another World (of Work) is Possible”
- Richard Lachmann, SUNY Albany: “Climate Change and the Decommodification of Jobs”
- Respondent: Deborah Strumsky, ASU
All our welcome to join conference speakers at the Normal Restaurant at the Graduate Hotel for drinks and dinner immediately following the closing panel on Saturday (though we will not be paying for everyone).
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Speakers:
Hillary Angelo, UC Santa Cruz - Alyssa Battistoni, Yale/Jacobin - Aaron Benanav, University of Chicago - Harry Boyte, Augsburg - Mijin Cha, Occidental - Daniel Aldana Cohen, UPenn - Stephen Cohen, UC Berkeley - Kate Knuth, University of Minnesota - Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, SUNY - Stephanie Luce, CUNY - Clark Miller, ASU - Harvey Molotch, NYU - Frances Fox Piven, CUNY - Dave Regan, SEIU-UHW - Wilson Sherwin, CUNY - Todd Vachon, Rutgers - Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
Organizers: Craig Calhoun, ASU - Benjamin Y. Fong, ASU
