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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)
Click on panel titles below to watch archived video
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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 (Spannaus 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 | 
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If you have any questions, please contact the Symposium Editor, Bryan Seiler, by phone at 612-625-7599 or by email at seile026@umn.edu.
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