The Health of Democracy: Social Immobility and Civic Participation

a conversation with RANDY ALBELDA and JOEY MOKOS

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Date

Feb

Wednesday
February 11, 2015
8:00 PM ET

Location

FPC Parish House
3 Church St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

Tickets required (details coming soon!)

Cambridge Forum presents "The Health of Democracy: Social Immobility and Civic Participation."

Economist RANDY ALBELDA examines the rise in U.S. social immobility and the role that contemporary labor conditions have played in limiting Americans’ expectations to do better than their parents’ generation. Union organizer JOEY MOKOS responds by discussing the ways that the modern union movement is responding to changes in our worklife. What role does social mobility play in a healthy democracy? Is faith in progress—personal and societal—a necessary condition for civic engagement?

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