Date/Time
Date(s) - April 7, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location
LSC 300, Lory Student Center

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Join us for our final Sociology-in-Progress Community Gathering this spring.

“Manufacturing Precarity: From Meatpacking to Grain Processing, American Industries’  Quest for Cheap Labor” 

Dr. Jackie Gabriel, (Ph.D. ’16), is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Western Colorado University (WCU). She is also Co-Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at WCU. She is a first-generation college graduate and working-class academic. She earned a doctorate in Sociology and a graduate certificate in International Political Economy at Colorado State University. Her research includes: corporate restructuring and labor relations in American manufacturing industries; gender inequality in academic sociology; working-class experiences in higher education; and diversity, equity and inclusion in intercollegiate athletics.