Center for Work and Democracy
El Centro del Trabajo y Democracia
Projects: George Floyd Square
Our project on George Floyd Square uses interview-based and ethnographic data to understand the nature, roots, and dynamics of protest and rebellion in American cities.
Podcast: "Organize the Unorganized"
Explore "Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO," a podcast from Dr. Ben Fong on the growth, importance, and legacy of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Events: "Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix"
A gallery exhibition created in partnership with the CWD, the ASU Art Museum, and George Floyd Global Memorial, "Twin Flames" will be open from February 3, 2024 through July 28, 2024.
Amplifying voices
The Center for Work and Democracy was founded in 2019 to connect university knowledge production to the challenges facing working people in our increasingly unequal and exclusionary society. The video on the right tells the Center's story.
The Center understands that working people have been marginalized in our polity, and conducts research with organizations whose missions are to increase the voice and power of the working class in order to support greater social change.
Project spotlight
Majority Rules: The Battle for Ballot Initiatives
Benjamin S. Case, Michael McQuarrie
The Ballot Initiatives Project explores the current fight over voters’ access to the ballot initiative process.
Upcoming events
BOOK TALK: Rashad Shabazz's "Biography of a Sound" with Commentary from Jeanelle Austin
Join Dr. Rashad Shabazz, CWD board member and Associate Professor in the Schools of Social Transformation and…
ASU Art Museum, "Art in Focus" room; Virtual via Zoom
Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix
OPEN FEBRUARY 3, 2024 THROUGH JULY 28, 2024!
In partnership with the ASU Art Museum and the…
the ASU Art Museum
"One of the things I really love about the Center is that it approaches scholarship in a way that I think is valuable and necessary... We use academic modes of training and we try to create research that we can share with the broader public"
– Rashad Shabazz, Advisory Board Member