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JANICE FINE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Janice Fine holds a Phd from MIT in Political Science and is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University where she teaches and writes about low wage immigrant labor in the U.S., historical and contemporary debates regarding federal immigration policy, dilemmas of labor standards enforcement and innovative union and community organizing strategies. 

Fine is faculty coordinator of the Program on Immigration and Democracy at the Eagleton Institute of Politics as well as a member of the graduate faculty in Political Science and the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers.  Her ground-breaking book Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream was released in January of 2006 by Cornell University Press and the Economic Policy Institute. 

Her most recent articles include “A Movement Wrestling: American Labor’s Enduring Struggle with Immigration 1866-2007” in Studies in American Political Development April 2009 (with Daniel Tichenor),  “Why Labor Needs a Plan B” in New Labor Forum May 2007 and “A Marriage Made in Heaven? Mismatches and Misunderstandings Between Worker Centers and Unions” in the March 2007 issue of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.  In addition to her scholarly writings, Fine has written for the Boston Globe, the Nation, and the Boston Review, been a guest commentator on All Things Considered and appeared on the Lou Dobbs show.  

In 2008, Fine was appointed by Governor Corzine to the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Immigrant Policy, where she helped formulate recommendations on a range of issues including strategies to strengthen labor standards enforcement as well as establishing a Commission on New Americans in the state of New Jersey.  Prior to coming to Rutgers in 2005, Fine worked as a community, labor and electoral organizer for more than twenty-five years.

About:

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Education:

Ph.D., MIT

Office:

Phone: 732-932-1746

jrfine@rci.rutgers.edu

Writings from LSER faculty:

Rethinking Unions