How Class Works - 2006 Conference

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How Class Works - 2006 Conference (June 8-10, 2006)

Forums

1.0 Working Class Studies Association round-table discussion on the current social context and specific organizational capacities for building working class studies

  • Sherry Linkon- American studies, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University
  • Peter Rachleff, history, Macalester College
  • Tim Strangleman, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University

and conference participants.


1.1 Is the Strike Making a Comeback?

  • Peter Rachleff, history, Macalester College, “The Northwest Airlines mechanics strike, 2005”
  • Chris Rhomberg - sociology, Yale University

“ Mobilization and conflict in the urban public sphere: the Detroit newspaper strike”

  • Joshua Freeman, history, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, “The NYC Transit Workers strike, 2005”


1.2 Race and Class – I

  • Elaine McCrate- economics and women’s studies, University of Vermont

“ The racial gap in workplace autonomy”

  • David Purcell-graduate student, sociology, University of Cincinnati

“ When does cultural capital matter? An examination of race, class, and gender in the corporate workplace”

“ Class unconsciousness and race consciousness: sleep deprivation and overwork among Pullman porters in the early 20th century”


1.3 Queer and Class

“ Queer as (middle class) folk”

“ Hidden injuries: memoirs of growing up gay or straight and working class”


1.4 Work, class, memory, and the visual

  • Tim Strangleman-Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University

“ Memories of work/visualizing labour: understanding the photography of work”

  • Sherry Linkon-center for working-class studies, Youngstown State University

“ Memorializing steelwork: Segal, Springsteen, and Youngstown”

“ A corporate history of work: labor photography and cultural memory”


  • Susie Orbach, author, Fat is a Feminist Issue, “Obesity and the Body Politic”


“ In the Groves of Academe: The Political Economy of Academic Labor”

Organized by New Labor Forum


2.1 State Capitalism in the Global Economy

  • John Manley-emeritus of political science, Stanford University

“ Theorizing the welfare state”

“ State capitalism in the global economy”


2.2 Organizing Long Island’s working class: the future of a movement


2.3 Globalization and Labor

“ Dialectics of globalization: a study of D.R.-C.A.F.T.A. its causes and consequences”

“ Globalization and labor”

“ Women clerical workers and their union in Puerto Rico: unions changing gender and national identity in a colonial setting”


2.4 The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education (photography and commentary)


2.5 Class in the Classroom

  • Ruthann Coyote-graduate student, higher education administration, University of Arizona in Tucson

“ The effect of socioeconomic status on academic success in an affluent college environment: if I’m so smart, why do I feel so out of place?”

  • Stephen Hess-graduate student, higher education administration, Boston College’s Lynch School of Education

“ Does class matter? The peer culture of working class undergraduates at a private university”

“ Understanding how cultural differences create working class-related patterns of student intellectual development”


2.6 Class Awareness Today

“ Social and class consciousness: lessons from the Great Sit-Down Strike”

  • Joyce Mills-public health nurse and anti-poverty activist, Oakland California

“ Health care politics: class identity and the destruction of the social contract”

“ Illegal, under-the-table, and contingent work in a ‘redeveloping’ local economy”

2.7 Experiences of Work

  • Jonathan DeBusk and
  • Abe Walker, graduate students, sociology, CUNY Graduate Center,“The truth behind the counter: contingent labor, emotional labor, and tight surveillance at Starbucks”
  • Anna Pollert-sociology of work, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University

“ Being an unorganized worker in 21st century Britain: the experience of problems at work and routes to resolution”

“ How union organizing changes relationships and promotes a better society”


Working Class Studies Association annual membership meeting


3.1 Class and Health

“ Class and health”

  • Carles Muntaner- nursing, public health sciences, and psychiatry, University of Toronto, “Exploitation and mental health among nursing home workers”
  • Stephen Rose-health professions, University of New England- Westbrook Campus

“ Embodied inequalities: perspectives on class and health”


3.2 Class and Gender

  • Mary Jo Bona-Italian American Studies & English, SUNY-Stony Brook

“ Classifying immigrant voices in the Progressive Era: mediating the question of class status for

“’ She never had said a word’: working-class women’s cultural texts and the art of protest”

“ Masculinity, class, and packing workers in postwar Edmonton”

  • Chris Paap- applied sociology, SUNY-Institute of Technology & senior research fellow, Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University

“ Contradictory constructions of class and power in the unionized building trades”


3.3 Middle Class Dynamics

“ Understanding Canada’s middle class: avenues for a new solidarity”

“ Are we all middle class? Class identity in New York City”

“ Class transformation of physicians”


3.4 Linking the Classroom with the Working Class

  • William Mello-coordinator, division of labor studies, Indiana University-Kokomo

“ The ABC of Brazil’s labor movement: working-class education and unions”

“ Going to school with the workers: workers’ lives, college level labor studies, and the development of trade union activism”

“ The pedagogy of class in the SEIU 32BJ Youth Brigade”


3.5 Organizing Contingent Workers


3.6 Class and veterans: discovering class in the recovery process


3.7 FILM Class Dismissed (with filmmakers


4.1 Country Studies in Class Dynamics – I

  • Olawumi Funmi-senior lecturer & consultant, industrial relations and personnel management, University of Lagos, Yaba-Lagos, Nigeria

“ The Neo-colonial state: globalization and the Nigerian working class”

“ Wage labor, precarious employment, and social citizenship in the making of South Africa’s post-apartheid transition”

  • Jason Schulman- graduate student, political science, City University of New York, Graduate Center

“ Workers without parties? The changing class character of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Labor Parties”

  • Jayati Lal-sociology and women’s studies, University of Michigan

“ Contesting classes, protesting proletarianization: Indian factory women’s routes to the working class”


4.2 Class Markers in Community

“ Class and the kitchen: lower-class attitudes toward eating”

“ Solara: Hidden class assumptions in a low-income housing cooperative” Elizabeth Swift-graduate student, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico “ Class, consumption, and cultural authority: museum shop merchandising at national museums”

  • John Gudmundson-lecturer/first year English coordinator, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada

“ Mythical workers: the construction of class in Icelandic immigrant communities”


4.3 Class Issues in Mental Health

“ Transitional class dynamics and mental health”

  • Barb Jensen- psychology, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, “Shooting in the dark: class bias in psychology and psychotherapy”
  • Anne Noonan- Center for Research on Women, Wellesley Centers for Women

“ In that place but out of place: urban adolescents’ perceptions of social class position and difference as experienced in relationship with important adults at work”


4.4 Organizing the Curriculum: Teaching the American Labor Movement

  • Rob Linne-English education, director adolescence education, Adelphi University

“ Is the American school curriculum anti-labor: a rationale for change”

“ Which side are you on? Organizing the curriculum around labour’s struggle”

“ Labor and the law: a curriculum framework”


4.5 How Class Works in the Writing Classroom: Embodied Experience of Pedagogy

  • Andrea Diane Davis-graduate student, rhetoric & writing, Michigan State University “Proxemics and embodied pedagogy”
  • Michele Fero-graduate student, rhetoric& writing, Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy, Michigan State University

“ Theories and lived experience of class within Rhetoric and Composition”

  • Julie Lindquist-rhetoric & writing, Director of Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy, Michigan State University

“ Cultural rhetorics and the experience of argument”


4.6 Law and the construction of class – class and the construction of law

“ NLRA values, labor values, American values”

“ Class, law, and power in the workplace”

“ The role of law in promoting the corporate university”


4.7 FILM - Getting Out


4.8 Award for Lifetime Contributions to Social Justice for Working People Presented to:


Music by The Corduroys, rock and alternative country band.


5.0 “ The Ruling Class”


5. 1 U.S. Health Care Systems

  • Elena Padilla-scholar-in-Residence, St. Barnabas Hospital, South Bronx; professor emerita, NYU Wagner Graduate School

“ Escalating inequality of health status and health care institutions: a new urban medical anthropology”

“ Institutional class analysis and movement building around the Health Policy Advisory Center (Health/PAC), 1960 – 1980s”

  • Robb Burlage-NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, Columbia University

“ Academic ‘medical empires’ to metropolitan ‘medical-finance complexes”


5.2 Race and Class – II

  • Peniel Joseph-Africana Studies, SUNY Stony Brook,
  • Yohuru Williams-history and Director of black studies, Fairfield University, “The Black Power movement and class struggles”
  • Gary Hicks-graduate student, American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Boston

“ Descending from the mountaintop: the struggle against the “three evils” named by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 38 years after his death”


5.3 Gender and Race in the Building Trades – see Kris Paap in 3.2


5.4 From Daily Life to Public Policy: Deconstructing the Hidden Rules of Class


5.5 Class in the Writing and Literature Classroom

“ Writing centers and politics of community, identity, and social justice”

“ Negotiating ethnicity, gender, and class in Real Women Have Curves”

“ From self-deprecation to social transformation: creating space to critique the impact of class on students”


5.6 Class and the Community Economy

“ How class works in nurturing neighborhoods: findings from the British Columbia Early Development Instrument Mapping Project”

  • Jesse Goldstein-graduate student, political science, York University, Toronto

“ Community unionism against asset building: financial services and community organizing”

  • Peter Ranis-political science, City University of New York, Graduate Center and York College, CUNY

“ Eminent domain: a way out for American labor?”


5.7 Class in the Media

“ Bigger than Enron: worker bees and class in the cinema of globalization”

  • Deepa Kumar-journalism and media studies, Rutgers University

“ Outside the box: corporate media, globalization, and the UPS strike”

  • Frank Emspak-executive producer worker Independent news, School for Workers, Labor Education, University of Wisconsin Extension

“ Worker Independent News: a case study in media, class consciousness, and the fight for political power”


6.1 Country Studies in Class Dynamics – II

“ Class struggles in contemporary France”

“ Workers’ control in Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)”

  • Juliane Edler-graduate student, political science, York University, Toronto, Canada

“ East Germans, class, and racism after ‘unification’”


6.2 The Making of the English Working Class revisited

  • Mary Davis-labor history, London Metropolitan University
  • Roger McKenzie- graduate student, working lives research institute, London Metropolitan University


6.3 How Class Works in Writing, Sociology, and Women’s Studies Courses

  • Penny Lewis-graduate student, CUNY Graduate Center & Instructor, Social Science, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

“ Start here, go anywhere?”

  • Caroline Pari-English, Borough OF Manhattan Community College, CUNY

“ Revising essay 1: work and social class identity”

“ Working women, working students”


6.4 From Revolutionary Socialism to the Post-War Accord: Possibilities for Working Class Activism

  • Marcella Bencivenni-Hostos Community College, the City University of New York “Italian-American working class radicalism: the legacy of revolutionary syndicalism”
  • Carol Quirke-American Studies, SUNY College at Old Westbury

“ The United Steelworkers of America, Steel Labor, and a union culture of restraint – 1936-1950”

  • Jacob Kramer-writing fellow, Queens College of the City University of New York & graduate student, United States History, CUNY Graduate Center

“ The Progressive response to working-class radicalism during World War I”


6.5 Class and the Control of Social Institutions

“ Who owns higher education? The struggle at California University of Pennsylvania”

“ Downsized discourse: classroom management, corporate talk, and the shaping of correct workplace attitudes”


6.6 Class Consciousness

  • Seth Adler- sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz

“ Working class unconsciousness: a content analysis of class terminology in major institutional databases and Internet search engines”

  • Diane Purvin-postdoctoral research fellow, Wellesley Center for Women

“ Class acts: presentation of self and other in social research”

“ How techno-hype helps legitimate class stratification”


6.7 FILM Farmingville (with filmmaker


7.1 Class and the Distribution of Income in the United States

“ The great Middle Class: developing a class map of social relations”

“ Class and household economic well-being in the United States, 1989-2002”

“ Working class and petit-bourgeoisie: class position and class stance”

“ An analysis of the law of comparative advantage and income inequality in the United States”


7.2 “Red Heads:” Doing VERY radical organizing/being in the working class


7.3 Reading the Labor Movement: Critical Literacy Instruction


7.4 Social Class and Higher Education in the U.S

“ Higher education and social reproduction: how class works at a state college and an elite private college”

“ Social reproduction and the experiences of African-American and Latino/a students at a state college”


7.5 FILM Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour (with filmmaker

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