Political Science

• The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies was created as a joint program in the departments of Political Science and History of the University of Washington. The Center honors the legacy of one of the preeminent labor leaders of the U.S. - the late Harry Bridges, outstanding founder and leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for over 40 years. The Center supports research, teaching and community outreach, all focusing on labor's contribution to society, and promotes the study of labor in all of its facets - locally, nationally, and worldwide. The mission is to help make labor studies, broadly conceived to include working men and women everywhere, a central concern in higher education.