Thank you for your interest in the Washington State Labor Research Grant from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies (Bridges Center).
Below we will ask for your name, contact information, department or discipline, faculty member status, campus, and your gender, racial, and ethnic identities. The Bridges Center strives to fund research taking on varied issues affecting workers and to be an intellectual resource for researchers across disciplines, backgrounds, and experiences. This information is intended to help the Bridges Center better understand our grants' reach, in regards to equity and representation, and it will not impact whether or not your research proposal is funded.
If you have any questions about this form, or any other application processes, please contact Rachel Erstad, Bridges Center Research Director, at rerstad@uw.edu.
From our mission:
Labor Studies is interdisciplinary. Understanding how and why work is performed, organized and divided in societies necessitates multiple scholarly perspectives. It demands recognition that labor occurs everywhere under many conditions - at home, in the workplace, waged and unwaged, organized and unorganized. Conceiving labor studies broadly also demands that we conceive labor movements broadly - to encompass struggles against oppression and hierarchy based on race, gender, sexuality, citizenship status, nationality, ability and more, in their particularities and their many intersections.