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2007 Minnesota Law Review Symposium

The Low-Wage Worker:
Legal Rights—Legal Realities

Co-Sponsored by the Labor Law Group

November 2, 2007
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
University of Minnesota Law School
Lockhart Hall (Room 25)

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8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-9:00

Welcome and Introduction

  • Dean Guy-Uriel Charles
  • Laura J. Cooper
  • Catherine L. Fisk
  • Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
9:00-10:30

Minimum Wage Legislation: Questioning the Paradigm

  • William L. Wascher:
    Minimum Wages and Low-Wage Workers: How Well Does the Rhetoric Match Reality?
  • Craig Becker & Paul L. Strauss:
    Representing Low-Wage Workers in the Absence of a Class: The Peculiar Case of Section 16 of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Underenforcement of Minimum Labor Standards

Moderator: Stephen F. Befort
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15

Organizing Strategies: Lessons from Recent Successes and Failures

  • Ellen Dannin:
    No-Bodies Were There—Privatization, People with Disabilities, and Low-Wage Work
  • Jennifer L. Gordon:
    Immigrant Worker Centers and Wage Enforcement: Creative Legal and Organizing Strategies
  • Peggie R. Smith:
    Balancing Consumer Choice with Workplace Protections: The Case of Home Care for the Elderly

Moderator: Laura J. Cooper
12:15-1:15 Lunch and Information Fair (Spannus Commons)
1:15-2:45

The Immigrant Worker in a Global Economy: A Special Case for Protection

  • Scott L. Cummings:
    Hemmed In: The Limits of Law Reform in the Los Angeles Garment Industry
  • David S. Weissbrodt:
    Remedies for Undocumented Non-Citizens in the Workplace: Using International Law to Narrow the Holding of Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB
  • Michael Wishnie:
    Labor and Employment Law After Legalization

Moderator: Lisa Stratton
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30

Challenging Global Capital on Main Street: The Case of the Big-Box Store

  • Nelson N. Lichtenstein:
    A New World of Retail Supremacy: Supply Chains and Workers' Chains in the Age of Wal-Mart
  • Catherine L. Fisk & Michael M. Oswalt:
    Preemption and Civic Democracy in the Battle Over Wal-Mart

Moderator: Jill Hasday
4:30 Adjourn
Reception for Law Review Alumni to follow in Auerbach Commons

If you have any questions, please contact the Symposium Editor, Bryan Seiler, by email at seile026@umn.edu.

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