High-Tech Globalization and Low-Wage Capitalism: System in Crisis & Prospects for Workers’ Fightback

Sat. Oct. 24

Come hear Fred Goldstein, author of Low-Wage Capitalism, lead a workshop on:
High-Tech Globalization and Low-Wage Capitalism:
System in Crisis & Prospects for Workers’ Fightback

Among the topics Goldstein will address: globalization ● the world-wide wage competition ● the “jobless recovery” ● the nature of the economic crisis ● why capitalism cannot revive ● the Republic Window and Doors plant occupation ● the Jobs March in Pittsburgh ● strategies for a fightback ● the revolutionary socialist perspective

Time: 11:40 – 12:40

Place: St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY - Room 4404

Directions: Take number 2 or 3 train to Clark St.

Fred Goldstein will be conducting the workshop at:
URPE CONFERENCE IN BROOKLYN, NY
Economic Crisis:
Radical Analysis and Radical Responses

Morning Segment: RADICAL ANALYSIS
Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Harvey (CUNY)
Workshops on causes, mechanisms, and effects of the capitalist crisis

Afternoon Segment: RADICAL RESPONSES
Keynote Speaker: Hon. Charles Barron (New York City Council)
Workshops on popular responses to the crisis

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Oct 23, 2009