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8.2 Party
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'''8.2 Party'''
Music by Anne Feeney and Elise Bryant
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*[[Anne Feeney]] and [[Elise Bryant]], Music
Saturday, June 5
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Registration reopens 8:00am-2:00pm, SAC
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*[[Maria Maisto]], President, New Faculty Majority "The Condition of Contingent Academic Labor"
Lobby
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8:00am
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Continental Breakfast, SAC Ballroom A
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'''9. Plenary Session: The Challenge of Charter Schools'''
8:00-9:00am
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*[[Leo Casey]], Vice-President for High Schools, United Federation of Teachers, NYC
Maria Maisto, President, New Faculty
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*[[Kamilah Jarvis]], Chicago charter school teacher/ high school English
Majority "The Condition of Contingent
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Academic Labor", SAC Ballroom A
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9:00-10:30am
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'''10.1 Crashing the Boys’ Club: Women in the Skilled Trades'''
9. Plenary Session: The Challenge of
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*[[Amy Bromsen]], Political Science, Wayne State University: Driven over the Brink at Chrysler: The Struggle and Death of [[Linda Gilbert]]
Charter Schools, SAC Ballroom A
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*[[Amy Peterson]], Nontraditional Employment for Women: NEW: You learn more than just the basics
Leo Casey, Vice-President for High Schools,
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*[[Laurel Parker]], IBEW Local 3, Empire State College: Women Building Bridges in the Construction Trades
United Federation of Teachers, NYC
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Kamilah Jarvis, Chicago charter school teacher/
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high school English
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'''10.2 Class in Literature I'''
How Class Works—2010 page 7
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*[[Alisa Balestra]], Miami University: The Many Articulations of ‘Working-Class’ in [[Leslie Feinberg]]’s Stone Butch Blues
10:45am-12:15pm
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*[[Sherry Lee Linkon]], Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University: Deindustrialization Lit: Stories from the Next Generation
10. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
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*[[Tim Libretti]], English, Northeastern Illinois University: The Reconfi guration of Class Consciousness through Anti-Colonial Nationalist Politics in the Novels of Milton Murayama: Theorizing Working-Class Literary Studies in the Age of Cosmopolitanism
Center
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*[[Sarah Attfield]], University of Technology, Sydney, Australia: UK Grime and the Expression of Working Class Culture
10.1 Crashing the Boys’ Club: Women in
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the Skilled Trades, SAC 306
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Amy Bromsen, Political Science, Wayne State
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'''10.3 Class Dynamics in Communities I'''
University: Driven over the Brink at Chrysler: The
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*[[Alpkan Birelma]], Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University: In search of the “working class”: Workers’ subjectivity and agency in a neighborhood of Istanbul
Struggle and Death of Linda Gilbert
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*[[Ajay Panicker]], Sociology, Saint Cloud University and [[Sudarshana Bordoloi]], Geography, York University: Class formation and the Local/Global Dialectic: Explaining Proletarianization in Kerala, India
Amy Peterson, Nontraditional Employment for
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*[[Joseph Varga]], Labor Studies, Indiana University of Bloomington: Geographies of Class in South Central Indiana
Women: NEW: You learn more than just the basics
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*[[Fran Shor]], History, Wayne State University: U. S. Consumers and the Problematics of Solidarity with Global Sweatshop Workers
Laurel Parker, IBEW Local 3, Empire State College:
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Women Building Bridges in the Construction
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Trades
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'''10.4 Class Confl ict in the Ivory Tower'''
10.2 Class in Literature I, SAC 304
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*[[Michelle M. Tokarczyk]], English, Goucher College: So You Think You’ll Find Another Tenured Position?: The Case for Fighting Where You Stand
Alisa Balestra, Miami University: The Many Articulations
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*[[Steve Street]], Buffalo State College: Class under Glass: The Two Faculty Tiers in Higher Education as a Microcosm of Class Dynamics
of ‘Working-Class’ in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone
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*[[Sharon O’Dair]], English, Univeristy of Alabama: Universal Access, Prestige-Driven Research, and the Creation of a Class System in the Academic Profession
Butch Blues
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Sherry Lee Linkon, Center for Working-Class
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Studies, Youngstown State University: Deindustrialization
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'''10.5 The Changing Labor Process and Working Class Experience'''
Lit: Stories from the Next Generation
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*[[Umit Akcay]], Economics, Ordu University: Young, Cheap, Flexible and Un-unionized: New Participants of Working Class, The Call Centre Workers
Tim Libretti, English, Northeastern Illinois University:
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*[[Charley Richardson]], Labor Extension Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell: Working Alone: Isolation and Class Solidarity in the Modern Workplace
The Reconfi guration of Class Consciousness
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*[[Laura Clawson]], Working America: The Decline of Associationalism and Prospects for Working-Class Mobilization
through Anti-Colonial Nationalist Politics in the Novels
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*[[Nancy Lessin]], United Steelworkers' [[Tony Mazzocchi]] Center for Health, Safety and Environmental Education: Hiding the Injuries of Class: Management’s Plan for Individualizing Harm, Destroying Solidarity and Hiding the Toll of Work-related Injuries
of Milton Murayama: Theorizing Working-Class
 
Literary Studies in the Age of Cosmopolitanism
 
Sarah Attfi eld, University of Technology, Sydney,
 
Australia: UK Grime and the Expression of Working
 
Class Culture
 
10.3 Class Dynamics in Communities I,
 
SAC 303
 
Alpkan Birelma, Ataturk Institute for Modern
 
Turkish History, Bogazici University: In search of
 
the “working class”: Workers’ subjectivity and agency
 
in a neighborhood of Istanbul
 
Ajay Panicker, Sociology, Saint Cloud University
 
and Sudarshana Bordoloi, Geography, York
 
University: Class formation and the Local/Global
 
Dialectic: Explaining Proletarianization in Kerala,
 
India
 
Joseph Varga, Labor Studies, Indiana University
 
of Bloomington: Geographies of Class in South Central
 
Indiana
 
Fran Shor, History, Wayne State University: U. S.
 
Consumers and the Problematics of Solidarity with
 
Global Sweatshop Workers
 
10.4 Class Confl ict in the Ivory Tower, SAC
 
302
 
Michelle M. Tokarczyk, English, Goucher College:
 
So You Think You’ll Find Another Tenured Position?:
 
The Case for Fighting Where You Stand
 
Steve Street, Buffalo State College: Class under
 
Glass: The Two Faculty Tiers in Higher Education as
 
a Microcosm of Class Dynamics
 
Sharon O’Dair, English, Univeristy of Alabama:
 
Universal Access, Prestige-Driven Research, and the
 
Creation of a Class System in the Academic Profession
 
10.5 The Changing Labor Process and
 
Working Class Experience, SAC 305
 
Ümit Akçay, Economics, Ordu University: Young,
 
Cheap, Flexible and Un-unionized: New Participants
 
of Working Class, The Call Centre Workers
 
Charley Richardson, Labor Extension Program,
 
University of Massachusetts Lowell: Working
 
Alone: Isolation and Class Solidarity in the Modern
 
Workplace
 
Laura Clawson, Working America: The Decline
 
of Associationalism and Prospects for Working-Class
 
Mobilization
 
Nancy Lessin, United Steelworkers' Tony Mazzocchi
 
Center for Health, Safety and Environmental
 
Education: Hiding the Injuries of Class: Management’s
 
Plan for Individualizing Harm, Destroying
 
Solidarity and Hiding the Toll of Work-related Injuries
 
 
and Illnesses
 
and Illnesses
Paul Landsbergis, Department of Environmental
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*[[Paul Landsbergis]], Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, State University of New York Downstate School of Public Health, Brooklyn, NY: Changing Nature of Work and Worker Health: Evidence and Labor Union Interventions
and Occupational Health Sciences, State University
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of New York Downstate School of Public
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Health, Brooklyn, NY: Changing Nature of Work
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'''10.6 Theories of Class'''
and Worker Health: Evidence and Labor Union Interventions
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*[[Hira Singh]], Sociology, York University: Class and Caste: Trajectory of an Erroneous Discourse from Max Weber to Louis Dumont
page 8 How Class Works—2010
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*[[Konstantinos Passas]], National University of Athens: Class Structure of Greek Society: A Comment on Productive and Unproductive Labor
10.6 Theories of Class, SAC 311
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*[[Ron Scott]], Organizer, Founding Member of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party: Beyond Money: Towards a New Defi nition of Class
Hira Singh, Sociology, York University: Class and
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*[[Andor Skotnes]], History, The Sage Colleges: Paper: Rethinking Nicos Poulantzas and the Structural Determination of Class
Caste: Trajectory of an Erroneous Discourse from Max
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Weber to Louis Dumont
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Konstantinos Passas, National University of Athens:
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'''10.7 Class Tracks in Language'''
Class Structure of Greek Society: A Comment on
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*[[Jacqueline Preston]], English, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Collective Rhetorics: Tropes, Schemes, and Ideographs in Two Rural Communities
Productive and Unproductive Labor
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*[[Kim Hackett]], English Composition, University of Akron: Language Differences in a Juvenile Correctional Classroom: A Teacher’s Experience
Ron Scott, Organizer, Founding Member of the
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*[[Janice Kelly]], Communication, Molloy College and [[Millie Burns]], Art, Marymount Manhattan College: Confl icting Messages: Hip Hop Reality TV shows Moguls’ Formula For Success, Class, and Culture
Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party: Beyond
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Money: Towards a New Defi nition of Class
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Andor Skotnes, History, The Sage Colleges: Paper:
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'''11.1 The Working Class in Contemporary U.S. Politics'''
Rethinking Nicos Poulantzas and the Structural Determination
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*[[Carl Davidson]], Author, and Co-chair, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
of Class
 
10.7 Class Tracks in Language, SAC 308
 
Jacqueline Preston, English, University of
 
Wisconsin-Madison: Collective Rhetorics: Tropes,
 
Schemes, and Ideographs in Two Rural Communities
 
Kim Hackett, English Composition, University of
 
Akron: Language Differences in a Juvenile Correctional
 
Classroom: A Teacher’s Experience
 
Janice Kelly, Communication, Molloy College
 
and Millie Burns, Art, Marymount Manhattan
 
College: Confl icting Messages: Hip Hop Reality
 
TV shows Moguls’ Formula For Success, Class, and
 
Culture
 
12:45-1:45pm
 
Annual Meeting of the Working Class
 
Studies Association, SAC 305
 
2:00-3:30pm
 
11. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
 
Center
 
11.1 The Working Class in Contemporary
 
U.S. Politics, SAC 306
 
Carl Davidson, Author, and Co-chair, The Committees
 
of Correspondence for Democracy and
 
Socialism
 
 
Randy Shannon, Treasurer of Pennsylvania 4th
 
Randy Shannon, Treasurer of Pennsylvania 4th
 
Congressional District Chapter of Progressive
 
Congressional District Chapter of Progressive

Revision as of 15:59, 24 June 2010

How Class Works - 2010 Conference

Opening Party

Opening Party, Social and Behavioral Sciences Building

Music by Anne Feeney, readings by Barbara Jensen, Gerald McCarthy, and Michelle Tokarczyk

Forums

1.1 New Media in Labor Studies and Working Class Studies

  • Alyssa Lenoff, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University: New Media: Implications for Working-Class Americans
  • Joseph B. Atkins, Journalism, University of Mississippi: Giving Voice to Southern Workers: The Development of “Labor South”
  • John Russo, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University: The Uses of New Media at the Center for Working-Class Studies: A Two-Year Assessment


1.2 Class and Gender

  • Francine Moccio, Former Director of the Institute for Women and Work at ILR School at Cornell University: Live Wires For a Labor Cause: Women Electricians in New York City
  • Hester Eisenstein, Sociology, Queens College: Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World
  • M. Thandabantu Iverson, History Labor Studies, Indiana University-Northwest: Beyond Reductionism: Seeing Class Through Race and Gender in Black Healthcare Workers’ Lives
  • Melda Y. Ozturk, Economics, Ondokuz Mayıs University and Ozgun Akduran, Public Finance, Istanbul University: Women’s Labor in Tobacco Producing: Before and After Privatization


1.3 Pedagogy of Class I

  • Sarah Ryan and Emily Lardner, The Evergreen State University: Social Class as a “Night School”Theme: Two quarters at The Evergreen State College
  • Heather A. Howley and E.R. Carlin, University of Akron, Wayne College: Empathy: The Placebo Effect
  • Joel Saxe, Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Generational Debt: catalyst to social change and critical class(room) consciousness?
  • Raymond A. Mazurek, English & American Studies, Penn State University, Berks Campus: Students Gaze in a Working-Class Mirror: Teachingthe Working-Class Experience in America


1.4 Country Studies 1

  • Ozgur Narin, Economics, Ondokuz Mayis University and Ozgur Mutlu Ulus, Acıbadem University: Alpagut Factory Occupation: First Experience of Workers' Self Management in Turkey
  • Tara Martin, Sociology, University of New Mexico: Crosscurrents of Memory: Myth, Rank and File Memory, and Britain’s Winter of Discontent
  • Hugo Chesshire, Political Science, Brock University: In Hostile Waters: The 2009 Concessions of the Canadian Autoworkers Union


2.1 Class Dynamics in Higher Education and the Professions

  • Amy E. Stich, Sociology of Education, SUNY Buffalo: Working-Class Reputation and the Syntax of Rusted Space: A Damaging Discursive Practice within Higher Education
  • Kristin Cipollone, Sociology of Education, SUNY Buffalo: When College is the Only Choice: Post-Secondary Selection Processes of Middle- and UpperMiddle-Class Students Attending an Affluent Public High School
  • Julie Withers, Butte College: Class Act: Negotiating class dynamics at a rural community college


2.2 The Working Class after Neoliberalism

  • Colm Breathnach Geography and Sociology,University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Mapping the Global Working Class Today
  • Neil Davidson, Geography and Sociology, Universit of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Theory and 21st Century Workers: Definitions, Boundaries, Interests
  • Patricia McCafferty, Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: From Workshop of the World to Service Sector Central: Glasgow’s East End Today


2.3 Class Issues in History

  • Gregory Wood, History, Frostburg State University: Smokes on a Train: Smoking and Class Struggleson the New York City Subway, 1904-1913
  • John Lloyd, History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona: Crowds, Class and Community: The Pittsburgh ‘Mob’ and the Strike of 1877
  • Peter S. McInnis, History, St. Francis Xavier University: Incident at Reesor Siding: Bushworkers and the Historical Memory of Violent Confrontation
  • Vilja Hulden, History, University of Arizona: The payoffs of class privilege: The National Association of Manufacturers vs. labor in Congress, 1902-1914


2.4 Calling the Labor Movement to Discover the Working Class

  • Bob Fitch, Former Union Organizer, Author: Needed: A Labor Left that reflects real democracy and unites workers by reaching across restrictive jurisdictional lines
  • Joseph B. Atkins, Journalism, University of Mississippi: A Call for an Independent, Consciousness - Raising Labor Media
  • Martin Fishgold, Editor, The Unionist, AFSCME, past president of the International Labor Communications Association: The Failure of Unions and Their Media to Reach Out to the Working Class
  • Steve Early, Writer, Organizer: The High Price of Health Care for Some: How EFCA Became The First Casualty of ObamaCare


2.5 Country Studies II

  • Frido Wenten, Political Science, Free University Berlin: Changing class relations and labour struggles in post-1978 China
  • Kurtuluş Cengiz, Sociology, Abant Izzet Baysal University: The New Industrial Class of Turkey between Community and Market: A Cross-Section from an Anatolian City/Kayseri
  • Ugo Palheta, Sociology, Sciences-Po Paris: Class Struggle, Struggling Classes. The Social Stratifi cation of the “anti-CPE” Movement in France (2006)


3. Opening Plenary Session, Provost Lecture Series

  • Larry Cohen, International President, Communications Workers of America: Economic Crisis,Political Paralysis: What's the Working Class to Do?


4. Plenary Session: Right Wing Populism and the Working Class


5.1 Immigrant Class Identities

  • Anilyn Diaz-Hernández, Communication, UMass Amherst: Morphing into Childhood: Changes, Chances and Choices in the Life of a Middle-Class Man
  • David Avishay, Communication, UMass Amherst: Class Journeys? The Role of Class in the Identity Formation of an Israeli "Good Girl"
  • Liliana Herakova, Communication, UMass Amherst: Journeys of Belonging
  • Swati Birla, Sociology, UMass Amherst: A Question of Privilege


5.2 Class Dynamics in Brazil

  • Berenice Abreu, Social History, Universidade Estadual do Ceara: The Ship Sail on: the Politics of Class and Brazil´s Northeast Fishermen’s Movement
  • Frederico de Castro Neves, Labor History, Universidade Federal do Ceara: Working Class Protest and Revolt in Rural Brazil
  • William Mello, Labor Studies, Indiana University: The Legion of Workers: Class Formation and Right Wing Labor Organizations in Northeast Brazil


5.3 Rank and File Research from the National Labor College

  • Eduardo Rosario, National Writers Guild: Dismantling The Manufacturing Clause: Another Victim of Deregulation
  • Joe Potestivo, International Union of Elevator Constructors: The Case of the I.U.E.C., Local One New York City: Succeed Together or Fail Individually
  • John Graham, United Brotherhood of Carpenters: Health Impact of Emergency Response and Recovery Work at the World Trade Center Following 9-11
  • Lainie Kitt, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and American Federation of Teachers, Adjunct Professor, National Labor College: Post-Traumatic Stress among Housing Authority Workers in New York City after 9-1, Chair
  • Leah Rambo, Sheet Metal Workers International Association: Embracing Diversity: The Key to Building Strong Unions


5.4. What Do Working Class Students Need in Higher Education? - a roundtable discussion


5.5 Mothering from the Margins

  • Kinohi Nishikawa, Literature, Duke University: Sons and Mothers: Broken Family Narratives in the Post-Civil Rights Moment
  • Leigh Campoamor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University: “Who Are You Calling Exploitative?” Child Laborers, Sacrificial Mothers, and the Uncaring State in Lima, Peru
  • Sara Appel, Literature, Duke University: Safely in the Net: Interdependence and the Working-Class Superhero in Katherine Arnoldi's The Amazing 'True' Story of a Teenage Single Mom page 4 How Class Works—2010


5.6 How Class Works—2010 Conference Program A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook.This conference is the result of the work and support of many people. At Stony Brook, thanks to:


5.6 The Construction of Class Consciousness

  • John P. Beck, Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University: Murdering Labor?: How Contemporary Unions Have Fared in the American Mystery Novel, 1979 – 2009
  • Karen Veitch, Literature, University of Sussex: The Poetics of Class-Consciousness: Reading Genevieve Taggard in the Context of New Masses
  • Magnus Nilsson, Comparative Literature, Malmö University: Swedish Working-Class Literature and the Construction of Class
  • Michael J. Boyle, Graduate Center, City University of New York: Evangelical Faith and Working - Class Politics: Forever at Odds?


5.7 Class and the LGBT Experience

  • Jeff A. Cabusao, English, Bryant University and Todd Shaw, Political Science, University of South Carolina: Barriers Beyond Stonewall: Class, Race, and the LGBT Economic Justice Movement
  • Kim Palmore, University of California at Riverside: Classing Queers: Heteronormativity, Culture,and Queer Conventions
  • Sara R. Smith, University of California, SantaCruz: Gay and Lesbian Teachers and the Struggle Against the Briggs Initiative, 1976-1978
  • Yvette Taylor, Sociology, Newcastle University: Lesbian and Gay Parents: intersecting spatialites of class and sexuality


6.1 Class and Law I

  • Ahmed A. White, University of Colorado School of Law: Law, Liberalism, and Class Violence: The Legacy of the “Little Steel” Strike of 1937
  • Anne Marie Lofaso, West Virginia University College of Law: The Role of Employee Voice in Protecting Collective Job Security
  • Carla D. Pratt, Penn State University Dickinson School of Law: Race, Class, and the Formation of Law and Legal Systems


6.2 Why Is There No Socialism in America?

Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, and literary executor for Ted Allen


6.3 Telling Labor Stories

  • Betty Wilson, Curriculum developer for the Cityof New York, UAW Local 1981, National Writers Union, DC37: Mr. Jefferson's Piano and Other Central Harlem Stories
  • Jane LaTour, DC37 AFCSME: Sisters in the Brotherhood, working women organizing for equality in New York
  • Sue Doro, National Writers Union SF Bay Chapter; UALE, Retired IAM, Retired AFGE: Home, Heart & Hard Hats, Blue Collar Goodbyes
  • Timothy Sheard, Assistant Director, Infection Control and Epidemiology, SUNY/Downstate Hospital, Brooklyn, UAW Local 1981, National Writers Union New York Chapter Steering Committee: The Lenny Moss mysteries


6.4 Class Dynamics in Europe, Javits 223 (by videoconference)


6.5 Pedagogy of Class II

  • Anthony Tambureno, OISE University of Toronto: Bringing labor history to youth: Refl ections on the West Virginia Labor History Project
  • Emily Drabinski, Instruction Librarian, Long Island University, Brooklyn: Teaching About Class in the Library
  • Michelle B. Gaffey, English, Duquesne University: A Pedagogical Response to, “I’m never shopping at Wal-Mart again!”
  • Sharon Szymanski and Dianne Ramdeholl, The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies: Shock Therapy: Class Pedagogy for Electricians


6.6 Studies in Service Work

  • Cagdas Ceyhan, Communication Sciences, Anadolu University and Mustafa Berkay Aydın, Sociology, Middle East Tecnical University: Retail Workers' Working Conditions, Opinions of 'Organization' and Culture : A Case Study From Ankara/ Turkey
  • Lou Martin, History, Chatham University: Industrial Workers and the Shift to a Service Economy in West Virginia, 1950-1990
  • Marquita Walker, Labor Studies, Indiana University School of Social Work: Strength through cultural heritage: Lived experiences of hotel workers during a union organizing drive
  • David Van Arsdale, Sociology, SUNY Onondaga Community College: The Proliferation and Consequences of Temporary Help Work: A Cross-Border Comparison


6.7 Screening and Discussion: Pakathi – Soweto’s “in the Middle” Class


7.1 Class in Action: Worker Centers and Organizing


7.2 Class and Law II

  • Ellen Dannin, Penn State University Dickinson School of Law: Not a Limited, Confined, or Private Matter – The Class-Based Defi nition of Who Is an “Employee” under the National Labor Relations Act
  • James Grey Pope, Rutgers School of Law--Newark: Race, Race Consciousness, and Constitutional Law in the Making of the American Working Class, 1787-1964


7.3 Class Consciousness and Worker Action

  • Christine F. Zinni, Filmmaker, SUNY Buffalo and Ruth Meyerowitz, SUNY Buffalo: Round The Clock: Buffalo Workers and the Fight For Jobs With Justice
  • Claire Ceruti, Classifiying Soweto project, University of Johannesburg: Striking against a politically explosive background: hidden possibilities in the 2005 - 2007 South African strikes
  • Esra Dabagcı, Sociology, Ankara University and Mustafa Kemal Coskun, Sociology, Ankara University: Class Consciousness as Interpretation and Changing Act of the Social Life: The Case of Mineworkers in Turkey
  • Rene Rojas, Sociology, New York University: Bringing the Shop Back In: Politics of Production and Worker Militancy during the 2008-2009 Bronx Cookie Strike


7.4 The Culture of De-industrialization

  • Christine J. Walley, Anthropology, MIT: Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter’s Story
  • David Wray, Social Sciences, University of Northumbria: Class or Collective Biography? : The influence of cultural remnants in post-industrial, single industry, communities
  • Scott C. Silber, Union organizer and community organizer: Sticks and Stones: Storytelling in the Traumatization of the Working Class and Recovery as Resistance


7.5 Country Studies III

  • Penelope Hayes, Business and Law, Auckland University of Technology: The New Middle Class or the End of Class? An Empirical Investigation into the Changing Composition of New Zealand’s Class Structure, 1896–2006
  • Ed Motamed: Labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran


7.6 Dynamics of Class Formation

  • Shannan Clark, History, Montclair State University: Contesting the Social Frontiers of Class: White-Collar Unionism in New York City during the Mid-1940s
  • Jean Alonso: In Harm’s Way: Class Traits and Problems Originating in a Defense Plant


7.7 Class, Race, and Gender in the Building of a Progressive Majority – a roundtable discussion

  • Carl Bloice, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
  • Ira Grupper, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
  • Mark Solomon, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
  • Mildred Williamson, Illinois Department of Public Health, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism


8.1 Dinner

  • Barbara Bowen, speaker, President, Professional Staff Congress - CUNY


8.2 Party

  • Maria Maisto, President, New Faculty Majority "The Condition of Contingent Academic Labor"


9. Plenary Session: The Challenge of Charter Schools

  • Leo Casey, Vice-President for High Schools, United Federation of Teachers, NYC
  • Kamilah Jarvis, Chicago charter school teacher/ high school English


10.1 Crashing the Boys’ Club: Women in the Skilled Trades

  • Amy Bromsen, Political Science, Wayne State University: Driven over the Brink at Chrysler: The Struggle and Death of Linda Gilbert
  • Amy Peterson, Nontraditional Employment for Women: NEW: You learn more than just the basics
  • Laurel Parker, IBEW Local 3, Empire State College: Women Building Bridges in the Construction Trades


10.2 Class in Literature I

  • Alisa Balestra, Miami University: The Many Articulations of ‘Working-Class’ in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues
  • Sherry Lee Linkon, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University: Deindustrialization Lit: Stories from the Next Generation
  • Tim Libretti, English, Northeastern Illinois University: The Reconfi guration of Class Consciousness through Anti-Colonial Nationalist Politics in the Novels of Milton Murayama: Theorizing Working-Class Literary Studies in the Age of Cosmopolitanism
  • Sarah Attfield, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia: UK Grime and the Expression of Working Class Culture


10.3 Class Dynamics in Communities I

  • Alpkan Birelma, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University: In search of the “working class”: Workers’ subjectivity and agency in a neighborhood of Istanbul
  • Ajay Panicker, Sociology, Saint Cloud University and Sudarshana Bordoloi, Geography, York University: Class formation and the Local/Global Dialectic: Explaining Proletarianization in Kerala, India
  • Joseph Varga, Labor Studies, Indiana University of Bloomington: Geographies of Class in South Central Indiana
  • Fran Shor, History, Wayne State University: U. S. Consumers and the Problematics of Solidarity with Global Sweatshop Workers


10.4 Class Confl ict in the Ivory Tower

  • Michelle M. Tokarczyk, English, Goucher College: So You Think You’ll Find Another Tenured Position?: The Case for Fighting Where You Stand
  • Steve Street, Buffalo State College: Class under Glass: The Two Faculty Tiers in Higher Education as a Microcosm of Class Dynamics
  • Sharon O’Dair, English, Univeristy of Alabama: Universal Access, Prestige-Driven Research, and the Creation of a Class System in the Academic Profession


10.5 The Changing Labor Process and Working Class Experience

  • Umit Akcay, Economics, Ordu University: Young, Cheap, Flexible and Un-unionized: New Participants of Working Class, The Call Centre Workers
  • Charley Richardson, Labor Extension Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell: Working Alone: Isolation and Class Solidarity in the Modern Workplace
  • Laura Clawson, Working America: The Decline of Associationalism and Prospects for Working-Class Mobilization
  • Nancy Lessin, United Steelworkers' Tony Mazzocchi Center for Health, Safety and Environmental Education: Hiding the Injuries of Class: Management’s Plan for Individualizing Harm, Destroying Solidarity and Hiding the Toll of Work-related Injuries

and Illnesses

  • Paul Landsbergis, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, State University of New York Downstate School of Public Health, Brooklyn, NY: Changing Nature of Work and Worker Health: Evidence and Labor Union Interventions


10.6 Theories of Class

  • Hira Singh, Sociology, York University: Class and Caste: Trajectory of an Erroneous Discourse from Max Weber to Louis Dumont
  • Konstantinos Passas, National University of Athens: Class Structure of Greek Society: A Comment on Productive and Unproductive Labor
  • Ron Scott, Organizer, Founding Member of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party: Beyond Money: Towards a New Defi nition of Class
  • Andor Skotnes, History, The Sage Colleges: Paper: Rethinking Nicos Poulantzas and the Structural Determination of Class


10.7 Class Tracks in Language

  • Jacqueline Preston, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Collective Rhetorics: Tropes, Schemes, and Ideographs in Two Rural Communities
  • Kim Hackett, English Composition, University of Akron: Language Differences in a Juvenile Correctional Classroom: A Teacher’s Experience
  • Janice Kelly, Communication, Molloy College and Millie Burns, Art, Marymount Manhattan College: Confl icting Messages: Hip Hop Reality TV shows Moguls’ Formula For Success, Class, and Culture


11.1 The Working Class in Contemporary U.S. Politics

  • Carl Davidson, Author, and Co-chair, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

Randy Shannon, Treasurer of Pennsylvania 4th Congressional District Chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism Renee Y. Carter, Co-Chair, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism 11.2 The Academic Job Market in Working Class Studies – a roundtable discussion, SAC 302 Allison L. Hurst, Sociology, Furman University Cherie Rankin, English, Heartland Community College Christie Launius, English, University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh Debbie Warnock, Sociology, University of Washington Michele Fazio, English, University of North Carolina-Pembroke Sara Appel, Literature, Duke University Terry Easton, English, Gainesville State College 11.3 The Arts in Working Class Activity, SAC 303 Erika Schneider and Jon Huibregtse, , Framingham State College: Art in Federal Buildings: Class struggles for an acceptable past Carol Quirke, American Studies, SUNY Old Westbury: “A United Nations in One Union Shop:” Local 65 Distributive Workers Union and Representing Diversity Ruth Meyerowitz, SUNY Buffalo: Channels: Stories From the Niagara Frontier: Three Years of Short Films about Effective Community Based Strategies to Deal with Issues of Class, Poverty and Public Policy 11.4 Country Studies IV, SAC 304 Erik Bengtsson, Economic History, University of Gothenburg: Workers’ Party, Workers’ Politics? Blue-collar workers in the Swedish Social Democratic Party today Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Sociology and Anthropology, Washington College: Golf, Class, and Business in Mexico: A Case Study Claire Ceruti, Classifi ying Soweto project, University of Johannesburg: Are Soweto’s Unemployed a Labour Reserve? How Class Works—2010 page 9 11.5 Class in Literature II, SAC 311 Vanessa Hall, New York City College of Technology: Blue Collar Redux: Carver and the Working Class Renaissance of the 1970s Joan Clingan, Humanities and Sustainability Education, Prescott College: Sustainable Justice: Considering Social and Ecological Justice through Literature Linda McCarriston, Creative Writing & Literary Arts, University of Alaska Anchorage: Tillie’s Generation 11.6 Class and Blackness, SAC 305 Gregory Caldwell, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Division of Robert Beck: A Melancholic Performance of US-Style Patriarchy Shanesha Brooks Tatum, American Culture, University of Michigan: Embodiment and the Politics of Craft: Black Women's Craft Communities Tracy Carpenter, Comparative Studies, Ohio State University: African American Women and the Recovery Folk Movement 3:45-5:15pm 12. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities Center 12.1 Class Dynamics in Communities II, SAC 304 Beshon Smith, The University of Maryland-Baltimore County: Caution at the Crossroad: The Intersection of Class and Culture for Upwardly Mobile, African American Families and their Neighborhood Choices Nathan D. Delaney, History, University of Toledo: Community as Class Stefan Ramsden, History, University of Hull: The remaking of working-class community 1945-2000 12.2 Country Studies V, SAC 311 Cemil Boyraz, International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University: Working-Class Reactions against Neo-Liberalism: An Analysis of Privatization Process in Turkey after the 1980s Funmi Adewumi, Industrial Relations and Economics & Management Sciences, Osun State University: Trade Unions in the Global Economy: The Challenge of Social Movement Unionism Tim Fowler, Political Science, Carleton University: If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up nowhere: Canadian labour and strategic voting. 12.3 The Language of Class in Politics, SAC 308 Betsy Leondar-Wright, Sociology, Boston Col lege: TALKING OFTEN VS. TALKING LONG Towards a Sociolinguistics of the Class Cultures of Activist Groups Robert M. Zecker, History, Saint Francis Xavier University: “Do You Take us for Kaffi rs or Zulus?” Race, Labor and Housing Competition as Seen in the Slovak Immigrant Press Steve McClure, Geography and Geo-information Science, George Mason University: Actionable intelligence: zoning, land use and election outcomes in Prince William County Virginia 5:30-6:00pm Conference summary discussion, SAC Third Floor Lounge page 10 How Class Works—2010 Presenter, session number Berenice Abreu 5.2 Funmi Adewumi 12.2 Sean Ahern 6.2 Ümit Akçay 10.5 Jean Alonso 7.6 Sara Appel 5.5, 11.2 Joseph B. Atkins 1.1, 2.4 Sarah Attfi eld 10.2 David Avishay 5.1 Mustafa Berkay Aydin 6.6 Alisa Balestra 10.2 John P. Beck 5.6 Erik Bengtsson 11.4 Nancy Berke 5.4 Alpkan Birelma 10.3 Swati Birla 5.1 Carl Bloice 7.7 Sudarshana Bordoloi 10.3 Barbara Bowen 8.1 Michael J. Boyle 5.6 Cemil Boyraz 12.2 Colm Breathnach 2.2 Amy Bromsen 10.1 Elise Bryant 8.2 Millie Burns 10.7 Jeff A. Cabusao 5.7 Gregory Caldwell 11.6 Leigh Campoamor 5.5 E.R. Carlin 1.3 Tracy Carpenter 11.6 Renee Y. Carter 11.1 Leo Casey 9 Kurtuluş Cengiz 2.5 Hugo Ceron-Anaya 11.4 Claire Ceruti 7.3, 11.4 Çağdaş Ceyhan 6.6 Simon Charleworth 6.4 Hugo Chesshire 1.4 Kristin Cipollone 2.1 Shannan Clark 7.6 Laura Clawson 10.5 Joan Clingan 11.5 Larry Cohen 3 Mustafa Kemal Coşkun 7.3 Esra Dabağci 7.3 Ellen Dannin 7.2 Carl Davidson 11.1 Neil Davidson 2.2 Nathan D. Delaney 12.1 Anilyn Díaz-Hernández 5.1 Sue Doro 6.3 Emily Drabinski 6.5 Steve Early 2.4 Terry Easton 11.2 Hester Eisenstein 1.2 Michele Fazio 11.2 Anne Feeney 0, 8.2 Martin Fishgold 2.4 Bob Fitch 2.4 Bill Fletcher, Jr. 4, 6.2 Tim Fowler 12.2 Tim Francisco 5.4 Michelle B. Gaffey 6.5 John Graham 5.3 Ira Grupper 7.7 Chynna Haas 5.4 Kim Hackett 10.7 Vanessa Hall 11.5 James Haslam 7.1 Penelope Hayes 7.5 Liliana Herakova 5.1 Heather A. Howley 1.3 Jon Huibregtse 11.3 Vilja Hulden 2.3 Allison L. Hurst 11.2 M. Thandabantu Iverson 1.2 Kamilah Jarvis 9 Barbara Jensen, 0 Janice Kelly 10.7 Lainie Kitt 5.3 Paul Landsbergis 10.5 Emily Lardner 1.3 Jane LaTour 6.3 Christie Launius 11.2 Alyssa Lenoff 1.1 Betsy Leondar-Wright 12.3 Nancy Lessin 10.5 Tim Libretti 10.2 Sherry Lee Linkon 5.4, 10.2 John Lloyd 2.3 Anne Marie Lofaso 6.1 Angela MacWhinnie 7.1 Maria Maisto, Saturday 8 am Lou Martin 6.6 Tara Martin 1.4 Raymond A. Mazurek 1.3 Patricia McCafferty 2.2 Linda McCarriston 11.5 Gerald McCarthy 0 Steve McClure 12.3 Peter S. McInnis 2.3 Jack McKay 7.1 William Mello 5.2 Jack Metzgar 5.4 Ruth Meyerowitz 7.3, 11.3 Francine Moccio 1.2 Bruno Monteiro 6.4 Ed Motamed 7.5 Ozgur Narin 1.4 Frederico de Castro Neves 5.2 Magnus Nilsson 5.6 Kinohi Nishikawa 5.5 Sharon O’Dair 10.4 Melda Y. Öztürk 1.2 Ugo Palheta 2.5 Kim Palmore 5.7 Ajay Panicker 10.3 Laurel Parker 10.1 Konstantinos Passas 10.6 Jeff Perry 6.2 Amy Peterson 10.1 Mosa Phadi 6.7 James Grey Pope 7.2 Joe Potestivo 5.3 Carla D. Pratt 6.1 Jacqueline Preston 10.7 Joao Queiros 6.4 Carol Quirke 11.3 Leah Rambo 5.3 Dianne Ramdeholl 6.5 Stefan Ramsden 12.1 Cherie Rankin 11.2 Charley Richardson 10.5 René Rojas 7.3 Eduardo Rosario 5.3 John Russo 1.1 Sarah Ryan 1.3 Joel Saxe 1.3 Erika Schneider 11.3 Ron Scott 10.6 Ariel Sevilla 6.4 Randy Shannon 11.1 Todd Shaw 5.7 Timothy Sheard 6.3 Fran Shor 10.3 Scott C. Silber 7.4 Hira Singh 10.6 Andor Skotnes 10.6 Beshon Smith 12.1 Sara R. Smith 5.7 Mark Solomon 7.7 Amy E. Stich 2.1 Steve Street 10.4 Sharon Szymanski 6.5 William K. Tabb 4 Anthony Tambureno 6.5 Shanesha Brooks Tatum 11.6 Yvette Taylor 5.7 Michelle M. Tokarczyk 0, 10.4 Ozgur Mutlu Ulus 1.4 David Van Arsdale 6.6 Joseph Varga 10.3 Karen Veitch 5.6 Marquita Walker 6.6 Christine J. Walley 7.4 Debbie Warnock 11.2 Frido Wenten 2.5 Ahmed A. White 6.1 Mildred Williamson 7.7 Betty Wilson 6.3 Julie Withers 2.1 Gregory Wood 2.3 David Wray 7.4 Robert M. Zecker 12.3 Christine F. Zinni 7.3 Index