October 11, 2019

Maria Blancas, the Harry Bridges Center's Duggan Fellow for 2019 and former recipient of the Domingo and Viernes Scholarship (2005) is awarded the Bullitt Environmental...Read more

October 04, 2019

UW faculty and graduate students presenting works-in-progress on topics related to labor, broadly conceived to include working people everywhere.Read more

September 30, 2019

Just published report explores the link between employment types and worker well-being. Featuring Bridges Center Associate Faculty, Noah S. Seixas (senior author) and Bridges Center...Read more

September 05, 2019

"Domestic workers, mostly immigrant women who work alone behind closed doors, suffer from a chronic lack of visibility," England tells the Washington Post. Read more

September 03, 2019

The Washington State Labor Education and Research Center has just released a report on the economic impact of unions on Washington workers: The Union Effect: Raising Standards for Workers Across Washington. This "first of its kind” document was co-authored by Lee Firori, a graduate student in...Read more

August 20, 2019

The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is pleased to announce the release of Life Histories of Labor and Resilience: 25 years of Casa Latina in Seattle by Yvette Iribe Ramirez and Ricardo Gomez.

This beautiful collection of stories and images is the result of a project...Read more

August 13, 2019

Each academic year the Harry Bridges Center is proud to offer financial support to students whose work and service is dedicated to issues of labor and social justice. Meet some of our students and the important projects we supported in 2018/19.

Alika Bourgette ...Read more

August 08, 2019

Did you know that throughout campus you can find several Labor artworks? Together, these unique pieces (many crafted by workers) tell the history of labor and the labor movement in Washington state and beyond.

The Harry Bridges Center has put together this short guide for anyone...Read more

August 07, 2019

The Harry Bridges Center was delighted to learn that Michael Aguirre has been awarded the UW Graduate School’s Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities and Fine Arts Award!

Aguirre received his PhD for his dissertation, “The Wages of Borders: Political Economy, Labor Activism, and...Read more

August 01, 2019

Each year, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies awards thousands of dollars in research funding to University of Washington graduate students and faculty. Since 1992, the Center has awarded over one hundred grants, producing dozens of reports, books, articles, and more. The Washington...Read more

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