Talk: Research Services in the Labor Movement

Samir Sonti, UNITE-HERE Local 11

Sonti took his Ph.D. at UCSB in 2016 with a dissertation entitled “The Price of Prosperity: Inflation and the Limits of the New Deal Order.” He is a research analyst in a trade union local representing 23,000 workers employed in hotels, restaurants, airports, sports arenas, and convention centers throughout Southern California and Arizona.

This event is a part of Organizing U.S. Capitalism: From the Federal Reserve to the Unions, a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy; and the Policy History Program.