_Panel held on December 6, 2009, at the University of Chicago. Co-sponsored by the International House Global Voices Program._
Audio Recording
Panelists
Rubina Jamil President, Working Women Organization; and Chair, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
Atiya Khan Platypus Affiliated Society; and PhD candidate in History at the University of Chicago
Introduced and moderated by Spencer A. Leonard, Platypus Affiliated Society; Editor-in-Chief, The Platypus Review; and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Description
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q & A bringing together three leading figures of the Pakistani labor movement to talk about workers rights, women’s rights, the struggle to organize in the shadow of the Taliban, and the impact of the ongoing war in Afghanistan on the workers of Pakistan. These topics will be explored in light of the increasingly pressing need to reconstitute an international Left.