How Class Works - 2008 Conference
How Class Works - 2008 Conference
Opening Party
Poetry, music, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Fred Ho, Barb Jensen and Dave Lippman [1]
Forums
1.1. Borrowed Light: Ted Allen and Whiteness Studies
- Jonathan Scott, English, Bronx Community College
- Steve Martinot, Interdisciplinary Programs, San Francisco State University
- Anamaria Flores, English, Hostos Community College
- Fred Ho, Big Red Media: Why the Emphasis on White-Skin Privilege is White Chauvinist: The Problematic of "Race" Needs to Be Replaced by the Restoration of the National Question/s
1.2 Issues in Social Mobility
- Deborah J. Safron, Psychology, Michigan State University:‘Suck It Up and Deal With It’: Parenting Adolescent Part-Time Workers: Social class and Workplace Constraint
- Marquita Walker, Labor Education, University of Arkansas-Little Rock: Perceptions of Educational Attainment on Intragenerational Social Mobility
- Michele L. Rossi, Sociology, UC-Berkeley: Slacking and Sufficing in the Suburbs: or, Why Many Members of the U.S. Middle Class Are Not Worrying About Globalization (Even If They Should Be)
2.1. White Working Class Anger in Britain
- Bill Adams, Regional Director, Trades Union Congress, UK
- John Lewis, Regional Policy Officer, Trades Union Congress, UK
2.2. Meanings of Class
- Jack Metzgar, Humanities and Social Justice, Roosevelt University: Are 'The Poor' in a Class by Themselves or Part of the Working Class?
- Sam Pizzigati, Institute for Policy Studies: Long Live the Statistical Middle Class
- Vicky Hill, American Studies, University of Texas: Postwar Psychology, Class and ‘Middle Classness’
- Troy Rondinone, History, Southern Connecticut State University and
- Graham Cassano, Sociology, Oakland University, Michigan: Class War Talk, American Style
2.3. Class, Race and Gender and the Crisis of Political Economy
- Harry Targ, Political Science, Purdue
- Meta Van Sickle, Education, College of Charleston: Organizing Around Class, Race, and Gender in the South: the 21st Century
- Carl Bloice, blackcommentator.com: Political Economy and the 2008 Election Season: Class, Race, and Gender
- Ira Grupper, Socialist Education Project (CCDS): Work, Workers, and Building a Progressive Movement in 2008
- Mark Solomon, Historian: The Intersections of Race, Class, and Nationality in the 1930s and the Indispensability of Black-White Working Class Unity Today
3.1. White Supremacy in U.S. History
- Manning Marable, History, Columbia University
- Mike Goldfield, Political Science, Wayne State University
- David Roediger, History, University of Illinois
3.2. Labor Law and Union Strategy
- Funmi Adewumi, Industrial Relations & Personnel Management, University of Lagos: Workers' Rights and the Global Economy. How Protective are International Labour Standards?
- George Lafferty, Industrial Relations Centre, University of Wellington: Responding to Neo-Liberalism: Union Strategies in New Zealand 1991-2007
- John B. (Ben) Sears, Political Affairs Magazine: Hard Choices; The Electrical Unions and the AFL-CIO Merger 1955-56
3.3. Topics in Race and Class
- Elizabeth Aries, Psychology, Amherst College: The Role of Race and Class in Daily Experience at an Elite College
- Melissa Swauger, Sociology, Carlow University: Whatever Her Little Heart Desires: How Social Class and Race Influence Adolescent Girls' Perceptions of the Future
- Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University: Anti-Racism as Working Class Politics
- Mark Thomas, Sociology, York University: Neoliberalism, Racialization, and the Regulation of Employment Standards
3.4. Representations of Class
- Nazia Kazi, Cultural Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center: Islamophilia: Race, Class, and the 'Good' American Muslim
- Estye Fenton, Sociology, Northwestern University: From Roseanne to Carrie Bradshaw: White, Working-Class Women Respond to Women on Television
- Cenk Saraçoglu, Sociology, University of Western Ontario: The Ethnicization of Middle Class Antipathy Towards Migrants in Turkish Cities
3.5. Creating a Home Away from Home: The Migration Stories of African American Workers
- Christine F. Zinni, Sociology, Buffalo State College
- Latisha Randle, Buffalo State College
- Kevanne Dobbs, Buffalo State College
- Alethia Hokes, Buffalo State College
- Sitsofe Keaku Agebemenu, Buffalo State College
4. Plenary: Putting Single-Payer Health Care in the Mix (Provost Lecture)
5. Plenary: The Legacy of Ted Allen for Understanding the Color Line in the 21st Century
Student Activities Center
- Michael Zweig, Moderator: Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY-Stony Brook
- Bill Fletcher Jr., blackcommentator.com
- Jeffrey B. Perry, Ted Allen’s literary executor
- Meizhu Lui, co-author, The Color of Wealth
6.1. Immigration and the Color Line
- Manny Ness, Political Science, Brooklyn College
- Joe Wilson, Political Science, Brooklyn College
- Saru Jarayaman, Restaurant Opportunities Center
6.2. Class Structures in Higher Education
- Catherine I. Pouzoulet, American Studies, University Charles de Gaulle-Lille III: The Hidden Class Agenda of the Reform of French Universities
- Elizabeth Hoffman, English, CSU-Long Beach: The Politics of Class in the Ivory Tower: Vicious and High Stakes
- Vincent Tirelli, Political Science, Brooklyn College: Contingent Academic Labor and the Political Economy of the Corporate University
- Anthony Tambureno, Ontario Institute for the Study of Education, University of Toronto: The Role of Community Colleges in Reproducing Class Inequality--A Canadian Perspective
6.3 Worker Profile of Eskisehir in Turkey
- Deniz Kagnicioglu, Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Anadolu University: The Laborisation Process in Turkey
- Yener Sisman, Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Anadolu University: Profile of Unionised Workers in Eskisehir
- Zerrin Sungur, Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Anadolu University: Profile of Non-unionised Workers in Eskisehir
6.4. Call Us Activists: Nurturing Activism Among Union Members on a Community College Campus
- Anne M. Wiley, Social Sciences, Greenfield Community College
- Rosemarie Freeland, GCC Women's Resource Center, President GCC Professional Association, NEA
6.5. The Power of Class: Organized Labor's Self Censorship in the Media
- Frank Emspak, Workers Independent News
- Howard Kling, Labor Education, University of Minnesota
- Judy Ancel, Labor Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Steve Stallone, International Labor Communications Association
6.6. Music and Class
- Bradley Walchuk, Political Science, Brock University: Sing Loud! Sing Proud! Working Class Solidarity and Irish-American Punk Music
- Heather Howley, Communication, Cazenovia College: Death by Metal: Unionizing a Disenfranchised Working Class Culture
- Sarah Attfield, Writing and Social Inquiry, University of Technology, Sydney: Australian Rap Music and Working Class Agency
6.7. Health and Class
- Ed Slavishak, History, Susquehanna University: Bodily Ease: Industrial Workers and the Labor of Health, 1890-1910
- Michelle Desanno, Health and Society, SUNY-Old Westbury: Social Class and Mental Health
- Yanan Di, Economics, SUNY-Stony Brook and *Debra Sabatini Dwyer, Health Technology and Management, SUNY-Stony Brook: Health Disparities Across Class
Annual Meeting of the Working Class Studies Association
7.1. How Do People Become White?
- David Roediger, History, University of Illinois
- Melanie Bush, Sociology, Adelphi University
- Pedro Caban, Vice-Provost, State University of New York
7.2. The American McWriter, Globalized
- Linda McCarriston, Creative Writing, University of Alaska-Anchorage
- Richard Hoffman, Writing and Literature, Emerson College
- Afaa Weaver, Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center, Simmons College
- James Coleman, Three Rivers Community College: Shrinking Democracy: 'You've Got It Wrong'
7.3. Class Identity as Politics, Past and Present
- William Mello, Labor Studies, Indiana University-Kokomo: The Myth of the 'Working' Middle Class: Class Identity in a Midwestern Auto Town
- Paul Mishler, Labor Studies, Indiana Univeristy-South Bend: Labor Education and Religion: The Carpenter in the Union Hall
- Gerrie Casey, Anthropology, John Jay School of Criminal Justice: But She Brings So Much More to the Table!: The Not-So-Hidden Injuries of Class and Race at the City University of New York
7.4. Labor, Class and Media
- Martin Fishgold, The Unionist, AFSCME Local 371, Why Doesn't Anyone Talk About Labor Media Democracy Anymore?
- Joe Atkins, Journalism, University of Mississippi, The Missing Story: How `Detroit South' Threatens the Hard-Gained Middle-Class Status of Auto Workers
- Bob Fitch, Solidarity for Sale author, Why American Workers Need Constitutional Rights
7.5. Class and the Legal System
- Bettina Spencer, Psychology, Saint Mary's College: Classism in the Court System: Perceptions of Low-Income Rape Victims
- Diane Fieldes, Industrial Relations, University of New South Wales: Longer Hours, Lower Pay, Less Control over our Lives: Who Benefits from Industrial Relations Law in Australia?
- Louis Kontos, Sociology and Criminal Justice, John Jay College: An Analysis of Recent Trends in the Ideology and Politics of Crime Control
7.6. World War II and Its Aftermath
- Cecilia Rio, Women's Studies, Towson University: On the Move: African American Women's Paid Domestic Labor and the Class Transition to Independent Commodity Production
- Page Dougherty Delano, English, Manhattan Community College: The Rumor Project, Working Women and World War II
- Sam Sills, Documentary Filmmaker,
- Henry Foner and
- Bob Schrank, Labor Activists: Taking Liberties: State Power in the Struggle against Organized Labor after World War II
7.7. Screening and discussion: Morristown: In the Air and Sun: Framing Globalization as a Class Issue through Documentary Film
- Fran Ansley, College of Law, University of Tennessee
- Anne Lewis, Documentary Filmmaker
8.1. European American Workers and White Supremacy
- Chip Smith, co-author, Cost of Privilege
- Jeffrey B. Perry, Historian
- David Slavin, History, Georgia State University
8.2. The (Mis)managed Academy: The Application of Corporate Practices in Higher Education
- Michelle Tokarczyk, English, Goucher College
- Penny Lewis, Sociology, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- John Russo, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University
8.3. Decline or Renewal? Political Representation and the French Working Class
- Jim Wolfreys, Politics, King's College London
- Jacqui Freeman, French, King's College London
- Stathis Kouvelakis, French, King's College London
8.4. Class and Economic Change
- Michele Proctor, Sociology, Madonna University: Working-Class Families in an Era of Uncertainty: Is the American Dream Still Achievable?
- Pellegrino Manfra, Social Sciences, Queensborough Community College: Globalization Process and Income Inequality in the United States
- Richard D. Vogel, Journalist: Divide and Conquer: Exploiting Social Class through Global Production Chains
8.5. The Place of Class
- Mathieu Bonzom, History/Sociology, University of Tours: Class and Ethnicity in Chicago's Contemporary Social Movements and Organizations
- Stephanie Farmer, Sociology, Binghamton University: Building Class into the Urban Environment: The Case of Chicago's Public Transit System
- Steve McClure, Social Sciences, George Mason University: Geographies of Fear: The Socio-spatial Construction of the 'Gang' Problem in Northern Virginia
- Tracy Floreani, English, Baker University: From Sites of Labor to Siteseeing: The Ethics of Post-Labor Tourist Attractions
8.6. Oral Testimonies of Class
- Emily Kazyak, Sociology, University of Michigan: If We Were Rednecks: Constructing Class Boundaries in Rural Communities
- John Kirk, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University: Working through Change: Oral Testimony, Structures of Feeling and the Place of Anecdotes
- Claudine Pied, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center: Looking for a Good Worker, Looking for a Good Job: Work Ethic and Economic Change in a Maine Small Town
- James Walsh, History, University of Colorado Denver: My Great Grandfather was a Communist!: Recovering Lost Histories and Igniting a Love of History in Working Class Students Through Exploring Family Oral Tradition
8.7. Screening and discussion: neworleanslabormedia.org and the ILCA New Orleans Field Reporting Project
- Howard Kling, Labor Education, University of Minnesota
Annual Meeting of the Association of Working Class Academics
9.1. Dinner
- Richard Trumka, Speaker, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Presentation of awards from the WCSA and the Center for Study of Working Class Life
10. Plenary: New Voices in Working Class Studies
- Jeannette Gabrielle, Moderator, Joseph Murphy Institute, CUNY
- Catherine-Mercedes Brillantes Judge, Women's Committee, NYC District Council of Carpenters
- Terry Easton, Brittain Fellow, Georgia Tech
- Nelson Motto, National Day Laborer Organizing Network
11.1. Lessons on the Color Line from Smithfield Foods, Tar Heel, NC
- Gene Bruskin, Smithfield Campaign Director, United Food and Commercial Workers
- Carl Green, Smithfield Campaign Lead Organizer,
- Manny Hernandez, Smithfield Campaign Organizing Coordinator,
11.2. Empire on Trial: Critical Filipino Resistance and Cultural Studies
- Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao, English and Cultural Studies, Bryant University: Another World is Possible: Filipino Cultural Studies and Social Change
- Anne E. Lacsamana, Women's Studies, Hamilton College: Empire on Trial: The Subic Rape Case and the Struggle for Philippine Women's Liberation
- Michael Viola, Education and Information Studies, UCLA: Critical Filipino Resistance and Education: A Call for a Historical Materialist Critical Pedagogy
11.3. Class in Turkey
- Ferimah Yusufi Yilmaz, Management, Halic University: Political Economy of Taxes: Turkey Case
- Melda Yaman-Ozturk, Ondokuz Mayis University: The Relation of Patriarchy and Capitalist Development in Turkey
- Yasemin Ozgun-Cakar, Communications Sciences, Anadolu University: What Makes a Class a Class: Workers Strike in Pasabahce Glass Factory
11.4. Teaching Class
- Cherie Rankin, English, Heartland Community College: Once the Illusions Begin to Crumble, Then What?
- Paul Reckner, Anthropology, SUNY-Binghamton: Community Service Learning and Pedagogies of Class: The Challenges and Potentials of Teaching Class Issues and "Living Labor History" within the Context of a Living Labor Community
- Sherry Linkon and
- John Russo, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University: Teaching New Working-Class Studies: Interdisciplinarity in Practice
11.5. Theoretical Approaches to Class
- Dimitris Sotiropoulos, Political Economy, Univerity of Peloponnese: Understanding Neoliberal Financialization. A Class Analysis: Marx or Keynes?
- Gary Hicks, Journalist: The Concept of the Labor Aristocracy: Its Historical Development, Its Political Usage and the Continuing Struggle for Class Clarity in the 21st Century
- Ozlem Tezcek, Economics, Marmara University: The Rising Power of New Knowledge Groups as a New Component of Capitalist Class
- Stephen Adair, Sociology, Central Connecticut State University: The Disappearance of the Labor Theory of Value
11.6. Locals Go Global: Lessons of the Charleston 5
- Paul Durrenberger, Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
- Tony Perlstein, ILA 1588
- Paul Friedman, Labor Activist
- Gerrie Casey, Anthropology, John Jay School of Criminal Justice
11.7. Class and Religion
- Jay Youngdahl, Youngdahl Law Firm: Coping on the Track Gang: Religious Practices of Navajo Railroad Workers
- Joerg Rieger, Theology, Southern Methodist University: Class, Race and Gender in Religious Discourse: The Example of Liberation Theology in the United States
- Ken Estey, Political Science, Brooklyn College: The Labor Ethics of Working Class Born-Again Christians
- Chip Smith, Cost of Privilege co-author: Privilege, Spirtuality and Class Consciousness
Hail to the Thieves Labor/Folk Concert
- George Mann and
- Julius Margolin, with friends
12.1. Class in Black America
- Algernon Austin, Economic Policy Institute: Understanding the Strange Class War in Black America
- Anne Urbanowski, English, Université Paul Valéry, Montpelier III: Race, Class, and the Black Bourgeoisie: Social Distance, Symbolic Identity and American Culture
- Junius Williams, Abbott Leadership Institute, Rutgers University: The Strange Career of Race and Class
12.2. The (In)visibility of Class
- Janice Bloom, Education Studies, Eugene Lang College: The Invisible Backpack of Class Privilege: Schools, Social Class and the Transition from High School to College
- Cheryl Hyde and
- Paul Dannenfelser, Social Administration, Temple University: The Invisibility of Class in Social Work and the Detrimental Impact on Clients, Constituents and the Profession
- Robin DiAngelo, Multicultural Education, Westfield State College: My Class Didn't Trump My Race: Using Class Oppression to Face Race Privilege
- Donna Kesselman, Anglophone Studies, Université Paris X: How to Get Rid of Class in France
12.3. Topics in Education and Class
- Jessi Streib, Sociology, University of Michigan: Class in the Preschool Classroom: Learning about Class through Cliques and Exclusion
- John P. Lloyd, History, CSU-Pomona: Class in the Classroom: the Lessons of Labor History for K-12 Teachers
- Paul Lyons, Social Work, Richard Stockton College: The Knowledge Factory: From the Sixties to the Present
12.4. Class Consciousness
- Bertell Ollman, Politics, NYU: Can Studying Workers' Class Consciousness Help to Raise It?
- Howard Horowitz, Howard Horowitz Associates: Report on Two Focus Group Studies on Workers' Class Consciousness
- Lee Levin, A working mother who has spent 20 years in the labor movement: Problems of Class Consciousness in Working Class Women
- James Gerding, Politics, NYU: Looking at the Emotional Side of Class Consciousness
12.5. Class and Literature
- Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, English, University of Oklahoma: Ethical Memory: Documentary Long Poems of Working-Class Communities
- Joan Clingan, Humanities, Prescott College: ‘Small-Town Fiction,’ also known as ‘Schlub Stays Put’: Considering Work and Class in Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs as Contrasted with its Reviews
- Mary Jo Bona, Italian American Studies, SUNY Stony Brook and
- Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger, English, SUNY Stony Brook: Class Acts: Food Talk as Gestures of Defiance and Assimilation in Italian America
- Tim Libretti, English, Northeastern Illinois University: Imagining Health, Diagnosing Capitalism's Poverty of Health in the Writings of *Simon Ortiz,
- Helen Maria Viramontes, and
- Barbara Kingsolver
12.6. Class and Sexuality
- Michael Carosone, Independent Scholar: Queer Italian Americans as Part of the Mosaic of Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity, Race, Class and Power
- Yvette Taylor, Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle: Working Apart? Dis/connecting Class and Sexuality
12.7. Screening and discussion: Communitarian Democratic Political Traditions and the Making of the Oaxaca Uprising and the Role of Alternative Media in the Popular Movement
- Tami Gold, Hunter College
- Gerardo Renique, History, City College
13.1. The Whitening of Public School Pedagogues
- Juliet Ucelli, NYC Public School Social Worker
- Sean Ahern, NYC Public School Teacher
- Don Murphy, NYC Public School Teacher
- Sam Anderson, Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence and Independent Commission on Public Education
13.2. Race and Class: A Transnational Approach
- Mike Murphy, History, SUNY-Stony Brook: Domestic Development: The UAW Brings Labor Internationalism Home, 1955-1975
- James Nichols, History, SUNY-Stony Brook: If You Outlaw the Fandango, Then Only Outlaws Will Fandango: Class and Dance Halls on the Rio Grande
- Greg Jackson, History, SUNY-Stony Brook: Campo de Futebol: Foundations for Racial Democracy, 1890-1950
13.3. Consumption, Persuasion and Class
- David Gray, American Studies, University College Dublin: Birth of a Salesman: Selling Motivational Poster Campaigns in the American Workplace after World War II
- Katherine Turk, History, University of Chicago: From the West Side to the 'Softer Side': Community, Class and Consumerism In Sears Roebuck's Chicago, 1951-1973
- Larry Hanley, English, City College: Class: Ideologies of ‘Being Digital' in the Networked World
13.4. Class and Reform
- Elaine McCrate, Economics and Women's Studies, University of Vermont: Flexibility for Whom?: Control Over the Variability of Work Schedules
- Jennifer Nugent Duffy, American Studies, NYU: No Irish Need Apply: The Politics of Race and National Debate over Immigration Reform in the United States
- Steven L. Strauss, Franklin Square Hospital, Baltimore: The Class Lessons of 'No Child Left Behind'
- Ruth Meyerowitz, American Studies, SUNY at Buffalo and
- Christine F. Zinni, Sociology, SUNY at Brockport: New Media and the Struggle to Implement a Living Wage Law: Buffalo, New York 1999-2008
13.5. Screening and discussion: Good Work Sister!: Women Shipyard Workers of World War II: An Oral History