This event will be an evening on Zoom with labor activists and scholars to celebrate the release of the new book “Union By Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism” (University of Chicago Press, 2020) by Michael McCann with George Lovell.
“Union By Law”; charts a century of Filipino American workers’ rights-based struggles, from the U.S. invasion of the Philippines through the devastating landmark Supreme Court civil rights ruling, Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio. Speakers will include author Michael McCann (UW Political Science), scholar Megan Ming Francis (UW Political Science) and labor activists Cindy Domingo, Terri Mast, and Nemesio Domingo.
