New School Events NYC - New York City

The New School is located at:
various locations at which some or all of the events listed on this page will take place.

Events at the New School

• Bookforum at The New School: Getting to Work
  Labor Issues in the 21st Century
  Thursday, November 19, 2009, 6:30 pm
  The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
  Admission: $5 general admission; free admission to all students and New School faculty, staff and alumni with ID through the New School Box Office at 212.229-5488 or boxoffice@newschool.edu.
   
  Special offer: Free admission to all teachers, union and AARP members with ID, as well as Artforum and Bookforum subscribers and contributors.  Please contact rsvp@bookforum.com or call 212.475.4000 if you are a member of one of these special offer categories.
   
  Bookforum, in conjunction with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, investigates how the American workforce has changed and how to maintain fairness in a difficult, post-industrial economy. With Kim Bobo, director of Interfaith Worker Justice, long-time advocate for workers' rights; Thomas Frank, noted essayist and the author of What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America; Thomas Geoghegan, a Chicago-based labor lawyer and author of Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be For Labor When It's Flat On Its Back; and Andrew Ross, chair of the Departments of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. Moderated by Bookforum Editor, Chris Lehmann.