Center for Work and Democracy
El Centro del Trabajo y Democracia
Amplifying voices
The Center for Work and Democracy was founded in 2019 to connect university knowledge production to the challenges facing working people in our increasingly unequal and exclusionary society. The video on the right tells the Center's story.
The Center understands that working people have been marginalized in our polity, and conducts research with organizations whose missions are to increase the voice and power of the working class in order to support greater social change.
Project spotlight
Majority Rules: The Battle for Ballot Initiatives
Benjamin S. Case, Michael McQuarrie
The Ballot Initiatives Project explores the current fight over voters’ access to the ballot initiative process.
Upcoming events
BOOK LAUNCH: "Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living" by H.L.T. Quan
H. L. T. Quan will launch her latest book, Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living…
ASU Art Museum, "Art in Focus" room; Virtual via Zoom
25th Annual John P. Frank Memorial Lecture with Matthew Desmond
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the founder and principal investigator of the …
Herberger Theater (222 E Monroe St Phoenix, AZ 85004); Virtual
Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix
OPEN FEBRUARY 3, 2024 THROUGH JULY 28, 2024!
In partnership with the ASU Art Museum and the…
the ASU Art Museum
"One of the things I really love about the Center is that it approaches scholarship in a way that I think is valuable and necessary... We use academic modes of training and we try to create research that we can share with the broader public"
– Rashad Shabazz, Advisory Board Member