How Class Works - 2002 Conference
How Class Works - 2002 Conference
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0.0 Opening plenary session “September 11 and its Aftermath Through the Lens of Class”
- Leo Panitch York University (Toronto) – Political Science Provost Lecture Series
1.0 The Mosaic of Class, Race, and Gender
- Bill Fletcher, Jr. President, TransAfrica
- Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University
- Nancy Tomes, Chair, Stony Brook – History
1.1 Class, Race, and Repression in South Carolina
- Donna DeWitt, President, South Carolina AFL-CIO
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., President, TransAfrica
- Bill McAdoo, Chair, Stony Brook – Africana Studies
1.2 Class and Public Policy
- William E. Bachmann, electronic technician, U.S. Postal Service, NYC
“ Public Policy Is Class Policy: The Case of the Postal Anthrax Attacks”
- Alan Bloom, Valparaiso University – History
“ Follow the Money: Dispensing Charity in the Wake of Tragedy”
- Gary Jones, Muhlenberg College – History
“The State Made Visible: The Formation of the Pennsylvania Department of State Police, 1905 – 1906”
- Joel Rosenthal, chair, Stony Brook - History
1.3 Class and Gender
- Michelle Billies, Brooklyn, NY
“White Women and Class in the Matrixes of Oppression”
- Christine Haylett, University of Birmingham (UK) – Human Geography
“Poor Women, You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Welfare Cheque: The Internationalizing Project of Welfare Reform”
- Ellen Rosen, Brandeis University – Women’s Studies Research Center
“Social Class and Marriage”
- Naomi Rosenthal, Chair, Stony Brook – Sociology
SUNY Old Westbury – American Studies
1.4 Images of Labor
“Using Images to Teach Working-Class History”
- Sherry Linkon and
- John Russo, Youngstown State University – Center for Working Class Studies
“From ‘The Steel City’ to ‘A Nice Place to Do Time’: Images of Youngstown after Deindustrialization”
- Kim Wilson, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, - Labor Extension
“Making Labor History Murals in the Community” Jim Cassidy, Chair, Stony Brook - Art
1.5 Pedagogy of Class
- Gary Hicks, South Boston
“Globalization and Its Critics the First Time Around: Twain, Casement, Conrad, and Euro-American Imperialism, Late 19th – Early 20th Century”
- Sharon O’Dair, University of Alabama – English
“ Class Work: Site of Working-Class Activism or Site of Embourgeoisement?”
- Svitlana Taraban, York University, Toronto – Education
“Class Restructuring in Contemporary Ukraine and Its Effect on Education”
- Paul Dolan, Chair, Stony Brook – English
1.6 Working-Class Media Projects
- Frank Emspak, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin
“The Workers Independent News Service: Breaking the Media Blockade”
“Them and Us: An Organizing Model for Labor Communications”
- Norman Prusslin, Chair, General Manager, WUSB,
2.0 Class and Community
- Rosalyn Baxandall and
- Elizabeth Ewen, SUNY Old Westbury – American Studies
- Fred Rose, Springfield, Mass
- Mark Aronoff, chair, Stony Brook – Linguistics and Deputy Provost
2.1 Class and Gender
- Helena Worthen, University of Illinois – Chicago Labor Education Program, and
- Michelle Kaminski, Michigan State University, Labor Education Program
“ Women Talk about How Labor Education Has Influenced Their Union Activism: Implications for Labor Education
- Steve Meyer, University of Wisconsin at Parkside – History
“ Neckties, Red Slacks, and the Bloody Riot: Gender and Power on the Automotive Shop Floor during World War II”
- Judith Wishnia, SUNY Stony Brook - History
“ A Local Strike Becomes a National Issue: Women Sardine Canners in Brittany, 1924”
- Mary Jo Bona, Chair, Stony Brook – Women’s Studies
2.2 Pedagogy of Class
- Timothy Moran,
- Jacqueline Smith, and
- Michael Schwartz, SUNY Stony Brook – Sociology
“ Global Inequalities and Pedagogical Challenges”
- Rachel Rybaczuk and
- Oona Mia Coy, Hampshire College
“ The Transformative Impact of Class Talk for College Students”
- Timothy Moran, Chair, Stony Brook
2.3 Class, Race, and the American Dream
- Esteban Del Rio, University of San Diego – Communications
“ Categories and Constraints: Emergent Latino Subjects and the American Dream”
- John Manley, Stanford University– Political Science (emeritus)
“American Liberalism and the Democratic Dream: Transcending the American Dream”
- Ronald Mendel, University College Northampton (UK) – American Studies
“Dreamin’ in Class: The American Dream Considered from the Perspective of Class”
- Carla Peterson, University of Maryland – English
“Protecting the Neighborhood Drugstore: Class, Race, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Lower Manhattan”
- Lynda Perdomo-Ayala, Chair, Stony Brook – Pharmacological Sciences
2.4 Class and Public Policy
- Ed Geffner, Executive Director, Project Renewal, Inc., NYC
“ Class and Institutional Response to Homelessness”
- George S. Locker, Five Borough Institute, NYC
“ The Housing Shortage in New York City: Why It Pays Not to Build”
- Peter Marcuse, Columbia University – Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
“ Class in Space: Does Globalization Make a Difference?”
- Ian Roxborough, Chair, Stony Brook - Sociology
2.5 Seeing through Workers’ Eyes: The Unseen America Project
- Esther Cohen, Bread and Roses, 1199/SEIU, NYC
- Matthew Septimus, Photographer, NYC
- Jim Cassidy, SUNY Stony Brook – Art
- Rodolfo Sorto and
- Nadia Marin-Molina, Workplace Project, Long Island, NY
- Carol Quirke, CUNY Graduate Center, American History, graduate program
- Domenica Tafuro, Chair, Stony Brook – Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2.6 Class and the Economy
- Paddy Quick, St.Francis College – Economics
“Class and Armed Robbery”
“Class and the Changing Distributions of Income and Wealth”
- Doug Henwood, Editor, Left Business Observer
“Financial Markets: The Class Angle”
- Debra Dwyer, Chair, Stony Brook - Economics
2.7 Film - The Uprising of ’34
- George Stoney, Filmmaker. New York University – Tisch School of the Arts
- Vera Rony, Executive producer; founding director, Center for Labor Management Studies, Stony Brook
- Lou Deutsch, Host, Stony Brook – Hispanic Language and Literature
2.8 Poetry Reading
- Angelo Verga
- Veronica Golos
- Hayan Charara
- Michelle Fazio, Host, Stony Brook – English, graduate program
Playback Theater (NYC)
- John Lutterbie, Host, Stony Brook - Theater
3.0 Class and Public Policy
- Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center – Political Science
- Adolph Reed, New School University – Political Science
- Ruth Brandwein, Chair, Stony Brook – School of Social Welfare
3.1 Class and Religion
- Peter Laarman, Senior Minister, Judson Memorial Church – NYC
- Cathlin Baker and
- Paul Chapman, Co-directors, The Employment Project, Judson Memorial Church - NYC
“ Religion and Class Invisibility”
- Fred Rose, Springfield, Massachusetts
“ Building a Multi-class, Multi-racial Labor-Religion Coalition – Lessons from the Pioneer Valley Project” Chair:
- Linda Pfeiffer, Stony Brook – Political Science
3.2 Class and the Labor Process
- Sharryn M. Kasmir, Hofstra University – Anthropology
“ Post-Fordism and Subjectivity: The Case of the Saturn Automobile Corporation”
- Magdalena Raczynska – Rutgers University – School of Management and Labor Relations, graduate program
“ Blurred Authority or Blurred Identity? The Role of Collective Identity in the Transformation of New Employment Relations”
- Charley Richardson, University of Massachusetts at Lowell – Labor Extension Program
“ Technology and Power on the Shop Floor”
- Tim Strangleman, University of Nottingham (UK) – Sociology and Social Policy
“ Class and the End of Work”
- Chris Sellers, Chair, Stony Brook - History
3.3 Revisioning Families: Welfare Moms and Media Representation
- Anne M. Wiley, Greenfield Community College (GCC) – Psychology and Women’s Studies
- Suzanne McGowan, GCC - Counselor
- Rosemarie Freeland, GCC – Women’s Center Advocate
- Joel Saxe, GCC – Art/Video
- Anne M. Wiley, Chair.
3.4 Class and Consumption
- Andrew Arnold, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – History
“ Louis D. Brandeis, Mother Jones, and the Loopholes in Laissez Faire”
- Rosanne Currarino, University of Pennsylvania - Humanities Forum
“ Hours of Labor: The Eight-hour Day, Leisure, and the Consumer Citizen in Gilded Age America”
- Janet F. Davidson, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC
“ Trashy or Classy? Trailer Life in the 1930s”
- Charis Ng, SUNY Stony Brook – Sociology, graduate program
“ Casino Gambling: Age and Class”
- Janet F. Davidson, Chair.
3.5 Class and Race
- Ted Allen, Brooklyn, NY
“ Race and Class in U.S. History”
- Joshua Freeman, CUNY Graduate Center – History
“ They Never Called Themselves White: Racial and Ethnic Categorizations by New York City Unions after World War II”
- Preston Smith, Mt. Holyoke College – Politics
“ Class Structure of Post World War II Chicago”
- Donna DiDonato, Chair, Stony Brook – College of Arts and Sciences
3.6 Pedagogy of Class
- Alan Bloom, Valparaiso University – History
“Teaching the Industrial Revolution: An Exercise in Mid-Nineteenth Century Living”
- Erik Jacobson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“Students Using Sociolinguistics in the Adult ESL Classroom”
- Jonathan Scott, CUNY, Borough of Manhattan Community College – English
“Democratic Affinities: A Class-struggle Approach to Multiculturalism”
- Fred Gardaphe, Chair,Stony Brook – European Languages and Literature
3.7 Film - People Like Us: Social Class in America (excerpts)
- Louis Alvarez and
- Andrew Kolker, filmmakers, Center for New American Media
- Maureen Shaiman, Stony Brook – English, graduate program
“Middle Class? Working Class? What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter”
- Barbara Ehrenreich, writer
- Michael Zweig, Stony Brook – Economics
- Fred Gardaphe, Chair, Stony Brook – European Languages and Literature
4.1 Organizing the U.S. Working Class in the Global Setting
- Jamie Daniel, University of Illinois, Chicago – English
“ Service Labor and Globalization Theory: Visibility Problems”
- Jerry Dominguez, Casa Mexico, Mexican American Workers Association, NYC
“ Organizing Immigrant Workers in New York City”
- Jeffrey Keefe, Rutgers University – Labor Studies and Employment Relations
“ A Shift in Power Tactics from Strike to Political Pressure: The Case of CWA”
- Immanuel Ness, CUNY Brooklyn College – Political Science
“Community Labor Alliances: A New Paradigm for Organizing – The Campaign to Organize Greengrocery Workers in New York City”
- John Schmidt, Chair, Stony Brook (West) chapter chair, United University Professions (Local 2190 AFT – NYSUT, AFL-CIO)
4.2 The Capitalist Class
- Leslie Gates, SUNY at Binghamton – Sociology
“ Reintegrating Class Analysis into Globalization: The Formation of Mexico’s Internationalist Elite and the Fate of Mexican Unions”
- Paul J. Groncki, Financial Planner, NYC
“ Demographics of the Capitalist Class”
- Doug Henwood, Editor, Left Business Observer
“ Davos and More: A Global Ruling Class (in formation)”
- Michael Schwartz, Chair, Stony Brook – Sociology
4.3 Class and Youth
- Gregory DeFreitas, Hofstra University – Economics
- Niev Duffy, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NYC
“Young Workers, Economic Inequality, and Collective Action”
- Vincent DiGirolamo, Princeton – History
“Newsboy Funerals: Towards an Emotional History of Working-class Youth”
- Louis Kontos, Long Island University
“The Organizational Philosophy of Street Gangs on Long Island”
- Sara Lipton, Chair, Stony Brook - History
4.4 Class and Health
- Oliver Fein, MD, Cornell University Medical School – Clinical Medicine and Clinical Public Health, and
- Martha Livingston, SUNY College at Old Westbury – Health and Society
“Social Class, the Economic Determinants of Health, and the Health Inequalities Debate”
- Robb Burlage, Director, Health Justice Ministries, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
- Martha Livingston, Chair.
4.5 Class and Education
- Norman Fruchter and
- Kavitha Mediratta, New York University – Institute for Education and Social Policy
“Beyond Parent Involvement: An Organizing Paradigm”
- Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon – Political Science
“Policy Charade: Training for Discipline in the Low-wage Labor Market”
- Michelle Tokarczyk, Goucher College – English
“Promises to Keep: Higher Education and Working-Class Students”
- Tracy Ann Henry, Chair, Stony Brook – Economics, graduate program
4.6 Pedagogy of Class - Teaching Labor and Working-Class History: a discussion
- Kathy Mapes, SUNY at Geneseo – History
- Karen Pastorello, Tompkins Cortland Community College (NY) - History
- Randi Storch, SUNY at Cortland – History
- Julia Walsh, Webster University – History, Politics, and Law
- Karen Pastorello, Chair.
4.7 Film
- Fred Glass, filmmaker, California Federation of Teachers
Golden Lands, Working Hands (excerpts)
- Danny Schechter, filmmaker, Globalvision, NYC
Class Counts
- Michael Zweig, Host, Stony Brook – Economics
4.8 Watching the Media through the Lens of Class
- Danny Schechter – Executive Editor, Mediachannel.org
5.0 Class in a Global Economy
- Katie Quan, UC Berkeley - Institute of Industrial Relations
- William K. Tabb, CUNY Graduate Center – Political Science
- Jacqueline Smith, Chair, Stony Brook - Sociology
5.1 Issues in Class Mobility
- Joe Berry, Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL), Chicago
“ Class Lines, Class Power, and Class Consciousness within Higher Education: The Case of the New Majority Contingent Faculty”
- Jonathan Boyarin, Attorney, NYC
“ Towards a Personal Ethnography of a Large Law Firm”
- Fiona Devine, University of Manchester (UK) – Sociology
“ On the Self-maintaining Properties of the Class Structure: How the Middle Classes Reproduce Their Privileges and Power Across Generations”
- Mary Kosut, New School University – Sociology, graduate program
“The Class Ceiling: Reflections on Class and the Academy from a Blue-collar Standpoint”
- April Masten, Chair, Stony Brook - History
5.2 Issues in Class Alliances
- Richard Greenwald, United States Merchant Marine Academy – History
“ Crossing Boundaries: Progressive Era Working-class Reformers in a Middle-class World”
- Robert Alan Harris, William Paterson University – History
“How Temperance Didn’t Work: Terence V. Powderly’s Lonely Crusade, 1869-1893”
- Fred Rose, Springfield, Massachusetts
“How Working- and Middle-class Cultures Shape Politics: Building Coalitions Across the Class Divide”
- David Zonderman, North Carolina State University – History
“Working at Cross-class Alliances: The Labor Reform Movement in Post-Civil War Boston”
- Gary Mar, Chair, Stony Brook - Philosophy
5.3 Class and Race
- Peniel E. Joseph, University of Rhode Island – History
“African-American Class Struggles During the Civil Rights/Black Power Movements”
- Jeff Lustig, California State University at Sacramento – Government
“Class Resumed: The Tangled Knot of Race and Class and What It Means for How Class Works in America”
- Rachel Meyer, University of Michigan – Sociology, graduate program
“Strikes and Sit-ins: Class Struggle and the Making of Interracial Unionism”
- James Lance Taylor, University of San Francisco – Politics
“Black Nationalism and the Class Functions of Race in American Politics”
- John Williams, Chair, Stony Brook - History
5.4 Pedagogy of Class
- David Van Arsdale and students, Tompkins Cortland Community College (NY) – Sociology
“The Sociology of Work: Community College Students Study Their Class and Labor Backgrounds, with Implications for the Future”
- David Van Arsdale, Chair.
5.5 Class and Class Identity
- George Davis, Pennsylvania State University – Political Science
“ (Re)Producing Bourgeois Subjects: Foucault, Sexuality, and the Politics of Class Identity”
- Thurston Domina, CUNY Graduate Center – Sociology, graduate program
“Class and the American Consensus: Predictors of Working-Class Identity, 1972 – 2000”
- Kathryn Hegarty, Deakin University (Melbourne) – School of Literary and Communications Studies, graduate program
“The Classing of Ourselves: Mapping Working Class-ness in Identity through Fiction”
- Gregory Mantsios, CUNY Queens College – Director, Queens College Labor Resource Center
“Class in America: Myths and Realities”
- Michelle Fazio, Chair, Stony Brook – English, graduate program
5.6 Film -A Day’s Work: A Day’s Pay
- Kathy Leichter, filmmaker, Mint Leaf Productions, New York City
- Jonathan Skurnick, filmmaker, Mint Leaf Productions, New York City
- Yvonne Shields, Workfare Media Initiative - media organizer
- Amy Sullivan, Host, Stony Brook – Theater
6.0 Class, Power, and Social Structure
- Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News – columnist
- May Chen, UNITE! – Vice President
- Jose Feliciano, Chair, Stony Brook - Physics
6.1 Class beyond the U.S.
- Myagmartseren Chultem, York University, Toronto
“ Reproductive Decisions of Mongolian Women: Class and Public Policy”
“ The Nature of the Middle Class – Comparative Study of China and the U.S.A.”
- Peter Ranis, CUNY Graduate Center – Political Science
“ Rebellion and Class: Argentine Society Confronts the Neo-Liberal Model”
- Yingfeng Wu, SUNY at Stony Brook – Sociology, graduate program
“ Market Reform and the Changing Life Chances of the Working Class in China”
- Frank Myers, Chair, Stony Brook – Political Science
6.2 Recent Strike Experiences
- Steve Early, Communications Workers of America Region 1
“ CWA and the Verizon Strike”
- Joel Ochoa, International Association of Machinists, California
“ The 1996 California Drywallers’ Strike”
- Peter Olney, UC Berkeley – Institute for Labor and Employment
“ Resurrecting the Strike as Labor’s Primary Weapon”
“ Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles”
“ The Teamsters and UPS”
- Peter Olney, Chair.
6.3 Issues of Class Mobility
- David Byrne, University of Durham (UK) – Sociology and Social Policy
“ A Middle Class Created by Social-Democracy: Middle-class People from Working-Class Backgrounds in Post-Industrial Industrial Britain”
- Barbara Jensen, University of Minnesota – Center for Labor and Working Class Studies
“ Across the Great Divide: Cultural and Psychological Dynamics from the Working Class to the Middle Class”
- Sandra J. Jones, Brandeis University
“ Pass the Mustard: Contesting Class Relations in a Mixed-class Marriage”
- Sarah Hall Sternglanz, Chair, Stony Brook – Women’s Studies
6.4 Class and the Politics of Reform
- Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University – School of Industrial and Labor Relations
“ The New Deal That Never Happened: Full Employment and the Politics of Class in the 1970s”
- Donna Harrison, York University, Toronto – Sociology, graduate program
“Double Speak: Canadian State ‘Restructuring’ and the Demise of the West Coast Commercial Salmon Fleet”
- Wallace Katz, Dowling College - History and Humanities
“Class Discourse and the End of Reform”
- Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music – General Education
“The Environment as a Class Issue”
- Rachel Kreier, Chair,Stony Brook – Economics, graduate program
6.5 Pedagogy of Class - Interrelations of Class, Gender, and Race in Educational Sites: Historical, Ethnographic, and Narrative Analyses
- Marta Albert, SUNY at Albany – Reading
“Transformative Literate Practice in Working Women’s Lives”
“Locating the Unspeakable Term”
- Jim Collins, SUNY at Albany - Anthropology
“The Reading Wars in situ: Lived Hegemonies of Class, Race, and Gender”
- Mike Hill, SUNY at Albany – English
“Diversity in the Multiversity”
- Jim Collins, Chair.
6.6 Film – Stolen Childhoods: Child Labor in the Global Economy
- Robin Romano, Filmmaker, Romano Productions, NYC
- Soiliou Namoro, Host, Stony Brook – Economics, graduate program
7.0 Class, Race, and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
8.1 Continuing to Build Working Class Studies
- Michael Zweig, Chair, Stony Brook – Economics[1]
References
- ↑ How Class Works - 2002 Conference Schedule (accessed July 24 2010)