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'''Class in a Global Economy'''
 
'''Class in a Global Economy'''
 
*[[Leslie Sklair]] – London School of Economics, UK
 
*[[Leslie Sklair]] – London School of Economics, UK
*[[Thea Lee]] –  [[AFL-CIO]]
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*[[Thea Lee]]     -  [[AFL-CIO]]
 
*[[Walden Bello]] – Focus on the Global South, Bangkok
 
*[[Walden Bello]] – Focus on the Global South, Bangkok
  
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*[[Dorian Warren]] - American Studies grad, Yale
 
*[[Dorian Warren]] - American Studies grad, Yale
  
1.8 Masculinity and Class
 
  
Donna Buehler – Employee Assistance Program, SUNY Stony Brook
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'''1.8 Masculinity and Class'''
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*[[Donna Buehler]] – Employee Assistance Program, SUNY Stony Brook
 
“Domestic violence at work”
 
“Domestic violence at work”
Gary Jones – History, Muhlenberg College
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*[[Gary Jones]] – History, Muhlenberg College
 
“’Get your man’: the Pennsylvania Department of State Police, labor, violence, and masculinity during Progressive Era Pennsylvania, 1890-1917“
 
“’Get your man’: the Pennsylvania Department of State Police, labor, violence, and masculinity during Progressive Era Pennsylvania, 1890-1917“
Tyson Smith – Sociology grad, SUNY Stony Brook
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*[[Tyson Smith]] – Sociology grad, SUNY Stony Brook
 
“Working-class masculinity and professional wrestlers on Long Island”
 
“Working-class masculinity and professional wrestlers on Long Island”
  
1.9 Women and Class: Exploring Self, Identities, Power, and Resistance in Women’s Narratives
 
  
Sandra J. Jones – Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis
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'''1.9 Women and Class: Exploring Self, Identities, Power, and Resistance in Women’s Narratives'''
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*[[Sandra J. Jones]] – Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis
 
“’Neither one place nor the other entirely’: positioning oneself on the borders”
 
“’Neither one place nor the other entirely’: positioning oneself on the borders”
Michele Callahan Wolfson – Education, Wheelock College
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*[[Michele Callahan Wolfson]] – Education, Wheelock College
 
“I didn’t know there was a difference: an Irish immigrant woman’s narratives of the undercurrents of class experience”
 
“I didn’t know there was a difference: an Irish immigrant woman’s narratives of the undercurrents of class experience”
Stacy M. Pirog – Brandeis ‘03
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*[[Stacy M. Pirog]] – Brandeis ‘03
 
“’I work because I choose to’: creating a self-satisfying working-class life”
 
“’I work because I choose to’: creating a self-satisfying working-class life”
Barbara Jensen – psychology, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis
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*[[Barbara Jensen]] – psychology, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis
 
“Resilience, resistance, and working-class pride”
 
“Resilience, resistance, and working-class pride”
  
SIMULTANEOUS SESSIONS – Group 2, Friday 3:50 – 5:20
 
  
2.1 Women in the Global Economy
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'''2.1 Women in the Global Economy'''
 
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*[[Piya Pangsapa]] – Women’s Studies, SUNY Buffalo
Piya Pangsapa – Women’s Studies, SUNY Buffalo
 
 
“Factory women and their working class identities”
 
“Factory women and their working class identities”
Robert Cherry – economics, Brooklyn College, CUNY
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*[[Robert Cherry]] – economics, Brooklyn College, CUNY
 
“Nickel and dime jobs: can they benefit vulnerable women?”
 
“Nickel and dime jobs: can they benefit vulnerable women?”
  
2.2 Crossing Class Boundaries
 
  
Brenda Bretz – associate provost, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penna.
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'''2.2 Crossing Class Boundaries'''
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*[[Brenda Bretz]] – associate provost, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penna.
 
“Working-class students at a private, selective liberal arts college: crossing class boundaries and living in two worlds”
 
“Working-class students at a private, selective liberal arts college: crossing class boundaries and living in two worlds”
Mark Edward Braun – social sciences, SUNY Cobleskill
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*[[Mark Edward Braun]] – social sciences, SUNY Cobleskill
 
“Working-class college students: interviews with first generation students at a small state college in upstate New York”
 
“Working-class college students: interviews with first generation students at a small state college in upstate New York”
Sandra J. Jones – Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
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*[[Sandra J. Jones]] – Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
Betsy Leondar-Wright – United for a Fair Economy
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*[[Betsy Leondar-Wright]] [[United for a Fair Economy]]
 
“Linking personal stories to cross-class collaboration”
 
“Linking personal stories to cross-class collaboration”
Sarah Battaglia – graduate program coordinator, Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook
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*[[Sarah Battaglia]] – graduate program coordinator, Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook
 
“From Brooklyn to the ‘burbs: traversing the class divide”
 
“From Brooklyn to the ‘burbs: traversing the class divide”
Rachel Sherman – sociology, Yale
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*[[Rachel Sherman]] – sociology, Yale
 
“Class acts: normalizing unequal entitlement in luxury hotels”
 
“Class acts: normalizing unequal entitlement in luxury hotels”
  
2.3 Class and Women’s Studies
 
  
Christie Launius – Women’s Studies, Ohio University
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'''2.3 Class and Women’s Studies'''
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*[[Christie Launius]] – Women’s Studies, Ohio University
 
“Class in the Women’s Studies classroom”
 
“Class in the Women’s Studies classroom”
Gail Verdi – education, College of New Rochelle (New York)
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*[[Gail Verdi]] – education, College of New Rochelle (New York)
 
“Literacy development and the acquisition of social practices in the lives of four working-class women academics”
 
“Literacy development and the acquisition of social practices in the lives of four working-class women academics”
  
2.4 Representations of Class
 
  
Adrienne Burk – CWIL, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
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'''2.4 Representations of Class'''
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*[[Adrienne Burk]] – CWIL, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
 
“Positioning the past”
 
“Positioning the past”
Christopher Martin – Communication Studies, University of Northern Iowa
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*[[Christopher Martin]] – Communication Studies, University of Northern Iowa
 
“How labor gets framed: news by the corporate media”
 
“How labor gets framed: news by the corporate media”
Stephanie Lawler – Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham, UK
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*[[Stephanie Lawler]] – Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham, UK
 
“Maintaining middle-class boundaries: representation as class war”
 
“Maintaining middle-class boundaries: representation as class war”
Pepi Leistyna – Applied Linguistics, Umass Boston
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*[[Pepi Leistyna]] – Applied Linguistics, Umass Boston
 
“Laughing matters: entertainment television’s mockery of the working class”
 
“Laughing matters: entertainment television’s mockery of the working class”
  
2.5 The Relationship of Working Class Studies and Labor Studies – a roundtable
 
  
Michael Zweig – Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
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'''2.5 The Relationship of Working Class Studies and Labor Studies – a roundtable'''
John Russo – Center for Working Class Studies, Youngstown State University
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*[[Michael Zweig]] – Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
Jamie Daniel – University of Illinois, Chicago and AFT
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*[[John Russo]] – Center for Working Class Studies, Youngstown State University
Joe Wilson – Graduate Center for Worker Education, Brooklyn College, CUNY
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*[[Jamie Daniel]] – University of Illinois, Chicago and AFT
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*[[Joe Wilson]] – Graduate Center for Worker Education, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  
2.6 Teaching Class in Context
 
  
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz – Queens College Worker Education Extension Center
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'''2.6 Teaching Class in Context'''
Emily Schnee – Queens College Worker Education Extension Center
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*[[Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz]] – Queens College Worker Education Extension Center
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*[[Emily Schnee]] – Queens College Worker Education Extension Center
 
“Is Worker Education Class Education? Teaching Class in Context”
 
“Is Worker Education Class Education? Teaching Class in Context”
Tom Nesbit - Continuing Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
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*[[Tom Nesbit]] - Continuing Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
 
“Social Class and Adult Education”
 
“Social Class and Adult Education”
  
2.7 Reflections on Ralph Miliband’s Contribution to State Theory
 
  
Paul Wetherly – Politics, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
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'''2.7 Reflections on Ralph Miliband’s Contribution to State Theory'''
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*[[Paul Wetherly]] – Politics, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
 
“Class power and state power: Miliband’s ‘instrumental’ conception of the state”
 
“Class power and state power: Miliband’s ‘instrumental’ conception of the state”
Clyde Barrow – Policy Studies, Umass Dartmouth
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*[[Clyde Barrow]] – Policy Studies, Umass Dartmouth
 
“Reconsidering Miliband and state theory: a defense of instrumentalism”
 
“Reconsidering Miliband and state theory: a defense of instrumentalism”
Michael Newman – Politics, London Metropolitan University, UK
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*[[Michael Newman]] – Politics, London Metropolitan University, UK
 
“Miliband and Lasky on class, democracy, and the state”
 
“Miliband and Lasky on class, democracy, and the state”
  
2.8 Class, Health, and Health Care
 
  
Martha Livingston - Health and Society, College at Old Westbury, SUNY
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'''2.8 Class, Health, and Health Care'''
Title TBA
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*[[Martha Livingston]] - Health and Society, College at Old Westbury, SUNY
Matt Anderson - Family and Social Medicine, Bronx, NY
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*[[Matt Anderson]] - Family and Social Medicine, Bronx, NY
 
“Doctors discover class: the origins of 19th century social medicine”
 
“Doctors discover class: the origins of 19th century social medicine”
Rachel Kreier – Economics grad., SUNY Stony Brook
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*[[Rachel Kreier]] – Economics grad., SUNY Stony Brook
 
“Information and quality sorting by patient ability to pay in the New York State market for heart surgeons”
 
“Information and quality sorting by patient ability to pay in the New York State market for heart surgeons”
  
2.9 Strikes: Learning Class Consciousness in Struggle
 
  
William Mello – Labor Studies, University of Indiana, Kokomo
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'''2.9 Strikes: Learning Class Consciousness in Struggle'''
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*[[William Mello]] – Labor Studies, University of Indiana, Kokomo
 
“Strikes and the politics of reform on the Port of New York: 1945-1960”
 
“Strikes and the politics of reform on the Port of New York: 1945-1960”
Ruth Needleman – Labor Studies, University of Indiana, Northwest
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*[[Ruth Needleman]] – Labor Studies, University of Indiana, Northwest
 
“Race and class in the 1919 steel strike”
 
“Race and class in the 1919 steel strike”
Stan Ketchum – Labor Studies student, University of Indiana, Northwest
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*Stan Ketchum – Labor Studies student, University of Indiana, Northwest
“Why the AFL-CIO doesn’t strike for universal health care”
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“Why the [[AFL-CIO]] doesn’t strike for universal health care”
Ed Hiatt – Labor Studies student, University of Indiana, Northwest
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*[[Ed Hiatt]] – Labor Studies student, University of Indiana, Northwest
 
“Spiraling cost of living and the 1919 steel strike”
 
“Spiraling cost of living and the 1919 steel strike”
  
2.10 Jack O’Dell and the Success of Principled Non-sectarianism
 
  
Karen Ferguson – History, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver BC
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'''2.10 Jack O’Dell and the Success of Principled Non-sectarianism'''
John Munro – history grad, UC Santa Barbara
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*[[Karen Ferguson]] – History, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver BC
“Continuities in the freedom movement: Jack O’Dell in the early Cold War”
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*[[John Munro]] – history grad, UC Santa Barbara
Ian Rocksborough-Smith – history grad, SFU
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“Continuities in the freedom movement: [[Jack O’Dell]] in the early Cold War”
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*[[Ian Rocksborough-Smith]] – history grad, SFU
 
“Jack O’Dell’s working class affinities”
 
“Jack O’Dell’s working class affinities”
Charles Demers – writer/journalist, Vancouver, BC
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*[[Charles Demers]] – writer/journalist, Vancouver, BC
 
“Armed with a legacy: lessons learned from Jack O’Dell”
 
“Armed with a legacy: lessons learned from Jack O’Dell”
  
2.11 Film - Stolen Childhood
 
Robin Romano – filmmaker
 
  
SIMULTANEOUS SESSIONS Group 3, Saturday 10:50 – 12:20
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'''2.11 Film - Stolen Childhood'''
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*[[Robin Romano]] filmmaker
  
3.1 Class, Law, and Lawyers
 
  
Olena Kobzar – undergraduate political science, York Univ., and grad. Carleton Univ.
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'''3.1 Class, Law, and Lawyers'''
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*[[Olena Kobzar]] – undergraduate political science, York Univ., and grad. Carleton Univ.
 
“Rethinking law and class in North America”
 
“Rethinking law and class in North America”
Robert Sauté – Sociology grad, CUNY Graduate Center
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*[[Robert Sauté]] – Sociology grad, CUNY Graduate Center
“Unionization, professionalism, and zealous advocacy: the New York Legal Aid Society in the 1960s”
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“Unionization, professionalism, and zealous advocacy: the [[New York Legal Aid Society]] in the 1960s”
Others TBA
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3.2 Race and Class in Communities
 
  
Jonathan Scott – English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
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'''3.2 Race and Class in Communities'''
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*[[Jonathan Scott]] – English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
 
“A crack in the monolith: Eminem’s missed opportunity”
 
“A crack in the monolith: Eminem’s missed opportunity”
Maggie Ussery – grad, Temple University; anthropology and sociology, Ursinus College
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*[[Maggie Ussery]] – grad, Temple University; anthropology and sociology, Ursinus College
 
“Refusing to be humbled: the social and economic adaptations of black workers in Philadelphia”
 
“Refusing to be humbled: the social and economic adaptations of black workers in Philadelphia”
Sean I. Ahern – New York City
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*[[Sean I. Ahern]] – New York City
 
“Race and reform: breaking ranks with the Shanker legacy”
 
“Race and reform: breaking ranks with the Shanker legacy”
Jay Arena – Sociology grad., Tulane
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*[[Jay Arena]] – Sociology grad., Tulane
 
“Marxism meets urban regime theory: a model for understanding racist neoliberalism and class conflict within a majority black city”
 
“Marxism meets urban regime theory: a model for understanding racist neoliberalism and class conflict within a majority black city”
  
3.3 Class Structures in Health Care
 
  
Robb Burlage – Five Borough Institute, NYC
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'''3.3 Class Structures in Health Care'''
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*[[Robb Burlage]] – Five Borough Institute, NYC
 
“Medical-finance complexes and the structure of health care institutions”
 
“Medical-finance complexes and the structure of health care institutions”
Robert Padgug – NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
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*[[Robert Padgug]] – NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
 
“Hospitals, the uninsured, and the failure of cross-subsidization”
 
“Hospitals, the uninsured, and the failure of cross-subsidization”
Dr. Elena Padilla – Scholar-in-Residence, St. Barnabas Hospital, the Bronx
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*[[Dr. Elena Padilla]] – Scholar-in-Residence, St. Barnabas Hospital, the Bronx
Title TBA
 
  
3.4 Unseenamerica: Art, Class, and Voice – a roundtable
 
  
Nathalis Guy Wamba – Labor Education, Queens College CUNY
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'''3.4 Unseenamerica: Art, Class, and Voice – a roundtable'''
Carolyn Curran – organizational development consultant
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*[[Nathalis Guy Wamba]] – Labor Education, Queens College CUNY
Esther Cohen – Bread and Roses, 1199/SEIU
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*[[Carolyn Curran]] – organizational development consultant
 +
*[[Esther Cohen]] – Bread and Roses, 1199/[[SEIU]]
  
3.5 Issues in Class Dynamics in Capitalism
 
  
John Manley – Political Science, Stanford University (emeritus)
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'''3.5 Issues in Class Dynamics in Capitalism'''
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*[[John Manley]] – Political Science, Stanford University (emeritus)
 
“’Who can we shoot?: the unexceptional American welfare state”
 
“’Who can we shoot?: the unexceptional American welfare state”
Richard Wolff – Economics, Umass Amherst
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*[[Richard Wolff]] – Economics, Umass Amherst
Steven Resnick – Economics, Umass Amherst
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*[[Steven Resnick]] – Economics, Umass Amherst
 
“Class conflict and the capitalist state”
 
“Class conflict and the capitalist state”
Ted Allen – Brooklyn, NY
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*[[Ted Allen]] – Brooklyn, NY
 
“Base and superstructure and the socialist perspective”
 
“Base and superstructure and the socialist perspective”
Ian Roberts – Sociology, University of Durham, UK
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*[[Ian Roberts]] – Sociology, University of Durham, UK
 
“Social capital and the working class”
 
“Social capital and the working class”
  
3.6 Talking Class in the Labor Media - a roundtable
 
  
J.J. Johnson – 1199 News
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'''3.6 Talking Class in the Labor Media - a roundtable'''
Marsha Niemeijer – Labor Notes
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*[[J.J. Johnson]] [[1199 News]]
Martin Fishgold – International Labor Communications Association
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*[[Marsha Niemeijer]] [[Labor Notes]]
Frank Emspak – Workers Independent News Service
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*[[Martin Fishgold]] [[International Labor Communications Association]]
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*[[Frank Emspak]] [[Workers Independent News Service]]
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3.7 Sexual Rights and Representation – a roundtable discussion
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'''3.7 Sexual Rights and Representation – a roundtable discussion'''
Johanna Jones – Union Semester Program, Queens College, CUNY
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*[[Johanna Jones]] – Union Semester Program, Queens College, CUNY
Amber Hollibaugh – Senior Action in a Gay Environment, and Queers for Economic Justice
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*[[Amber Hollibaugh]] [[Senior Action in a Gay Environment]], and [[Queers for Economic Justice]]
Richard Kim – The Nation Institute, and Queers for Economic Justice
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*[[Richard Kim]] [[The Nation Institute]], and [[Queers for Economic Justice]]
Dean Spade – Sylvia Rivera Law Project
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*[[Dean Spade]] [[Sylvia Rivera Law Project]]
Carmen Vazquez – Empire State Pride Agenda
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*[[Carmen Vazquez]] [[Empire State Pride Agenda]]
  
3.8 Beneath the Glass Ceiling: Does Race Keep Classes Divided?
 
  
Yvonne Scrugges-Leftwich – National Labor College, George Meany Center for Labor Studies
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'''3.8 Beneath the Glass Ceiling: Does Race Keep Classes Divided?'''
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*[[Yvonne Scrugges-Leftwich]] – National Labor College, George Meany Center for Labor Studies
 
four National Labor College students
 
four National Labor College students
 
papers from Comparative Research Methods and Senior Seminar – NLC class of 2003
 
papers from Comparative Research Methods and Senior Seminar – NLC class of 2003
  
3.9 Class Culture and Social Change – a roundtable
 
Betsy Leondar-Wright – United for a Fair Economy
 
Barbara Jensen – psychology, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis
 
Jack Metzgar – humanities, Roosevelt University
 
Fred Rose – Pioneer Valley Project, Springfield, Mass.
 
  
3.10 Using Film to Teach about Class
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'''3.9 Class Culture and Social Change – a roundtable'''
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*[[Betsy Leondar-Wright]] – [[United for a Fair Economy]]
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*[[Barbara Jensen]] – psychology, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis
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*[[Jack Metzgar]] – humanities, Roosevelt University
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*[[Fred Rose]] – [[Pioneer Valley Project]], Springfield, Mass.
  
Bill Barry – Labor Studies, Community College of Baltimore County
 
Tom Zaniello – English, Northern Kentucky University
 
Renny Christopher – English, California State University, Channel Islands
 
  
SIMULTANEOUS SESSIONS Group 4, Saturday 3:50 5:20
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'''3.10 Using Film to Teach about Class'''
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*[[Bill Barry]] – Labor Studies, Community College of Baltimore County
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*[[Tom Zaniello]] English, Northern Kentucky University
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*[[Renny Christopher]] English, California State University, Channel Islands
  
4.1 Class Formation and Politics in U.S. History
 
  
Gary Hicks – South Boston, Mass.
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'''4.1 Class Formation and Politics in U.S. History'''
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*[[Gary Hicks]] – South Boston, Mass.
 
“Color lines continued: DuBois and the Freedman’s Bureau, Reconstruction, and questions concerning class formation”
 
“Color lines continued: DuBois and the Freedman’s Bureau, Reconstruction, and questions concerning class formation”
Penny Lewis –Sociology grad., CUNY Graduate Center
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*[[Penny Lewis]] –Sociology grad., CUNY Graduate Center
 
“Class politics in the Vietnam anti-war movement”
 
“Class politics in the Vietnam anti-war movement”
Jonathan Martin – Sociology, Framingham State College, Mass.
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*[[Jonathan Martin]] – Sociology, Framingham State College, Mass.
 
“From working-class fatalism to activism”
 
“From working-class fatalism to activism”
  
4.2 Working Class Politics in the U.S. Today
 
  
Stuart Eimer – sociology, Widener College
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'''4.2 Working Class Politics in the U.S. Today'''
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*[[Stuart Eimer]] – sociology, Widener College
 
“From unions to class: the promise and limits of central labor councils”
 
“From unions to class: the promise and limits of central labor councils”
Nari Rhee – geography grad student, UC Berkeley
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*[[Nari Rhee]] – geography grad student, UC Berkeley
 
“Local policy reforms and labor’s electoral clout: toward a working class politics in Silicon Valley?”
 
“Local policy reforms and labor’s electoral clout: toward a working class politics in Silicon Valley?”
Dennis Soron – post-doc at Neoliberal Globalism and its Challengers Project, University of Alberta
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*[[Dennis Soron]] – post-doc at Neoliberal Globalism and its Challengers Project, University of Alberta
 
“Progressive environmentalism and the problem of working class consumerism”
 
“Progressive environmentalism and the problem of working class consumerism”
Roland Zullo – labor studies, University of Michigan
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*[[Roland Zullo]] – labor studies, University of Michigan
 
“Strategizing labor political outreach: air war or ground war?”
 
“Strategizing labor political outreach: air war or ground war?”
  
4.3 Class in Communities
 
  
Paul Watt – urban studies, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK
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'''4.3 Class in Communities'''
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*[[Paul Watt]] – urban studies, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK
 
“Class identity among working class public housing tenants in London”
 
“Class identity among working class public housing tenants in London”
Chris Haylett – geography, University of Manchester, UK
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*[[Chris Haylett]] – geography, University of Manchester, UK
 
“Regenerating a working class ‘sense of place’”
 
“Regenerating a working class ‘sense of place’”
Christopher Niedt – geography grad, UC Berkeley
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*[[Christopher Niedt]] – geography grad, UC Berkeley
 
“’Gentrification in the best sense of the word’: housing, regionalism, and redevelopment in southeastern Baltimore County”
 
“’Gentrification in the best sense of the word’: housing, regionalism, and redevelopment in southeastern Baltimore County”
Margot Olavarria – political science grad (PhD 2003), New School
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*[[Margot Olavarria]] – political science grad (PhD 2003), New School
 
“Builders of the city” pobladores and the territorialization of class identity in Chile”
 
“Builders of the city” pobladores and the territorialization of class identity in Chile”
  
4.4 Class and Community in the Global South
 
  
Frederico de Castro Neves – History, Federal University of Ceara, Rio de Janeiro
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'''4.4 Class and Community in the Global South'''
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*[[Frederico de Castro Neves]] – History, Federal University of Ceara, Rio de Janeiro
 
“The metropolis of hunger: work and conflict in Ceara, Brazil”
 
“The metropolis of hunger: work and conflict in Ceara, Brazil”
Peter Ranis – Political Science, York College and CUNY Graduate Center
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*[[Peter Ranis]] – Political Science, York College and CUNY Graduate Center
 
“The impact of popular rebellion on labor and social movements in Argentina”
 
“The impact of popular rebellion on labor and social movements in Argentina”
Franco Barchiesi – Politics, University of Bologna, Italy
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*[[Franco Barchiesi]] – Politics, University of Bologna, Italy
 
“Classes, multitudes, and the politics of community movements in post-apartheid South Africa”
 
“Classes, multitudes, and the politics of community movements in post-apartheid South Africa”
Ceren Özselçuk – economics grad., Umass Amherst
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*[[Ceren Ozselcuk]] – economics grad., Umass Amherst
 
“Reclaiming the public interest: politics of class and community within the Turkish anti- privatization movement”
 
“Reclaiming the public interest: politics of class and community within the Turkish anti- privatization movement”
  
4.5 Class, Communication, and Community
 
  
Susan Leggett – Communications, Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA
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'''4.5 Class, Communication, and Community'''
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*[[Susan Leggett]] – Communications, Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA
 
“No connections? Documenting class privilege”
 
“No connections? Documenting class privilege”
Lee Artz – Communications, Purdue Univ. Calumet
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*[[Lee Artz]] – Communications, Purdue Univ. Calumet
 
“Freire and Gramsci in communication studies”
 
“Freire and Gramsci in communication studies”
Lora Taub-Pervizpour – Communications, Muhlenberg College
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*[[Lora Taub-Pervizpour]] – Communications, Muhlenberg College
 
“When students see themselves as agents of social change”
 
“When students see themselves as agents of social change”
DeeDee Halleck – Communications, UC San Diego (emerita)
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*[[DeeDee Halleck]] – Communications, UC San Diego (emerita)
 
“Dangerous formats: the impossible possibilities of community in the classroom”
 
“Dangerous formats: the impossible possibilities of community in the classroom”
  
4.6 Living Class through Race and Gender: Using Biography and Personal Experience to Deepen Understanding
 
  
Ruth Needleman – Labor Studies, Indiana University Northwest
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'''4.6 Living Class through Race and Gender: Using Biography and Personal Experience to Deepen Understanding'''
Gerrie Casey – Anthropology, John Jay College, CUNY
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*[[Ruth Needleman]] – Labor Studies, Indiana University Northwest
Jojo Geronimo – Education Department, SEIU
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*[[Gerrie Casey]] – Anthropology, John Jay College, CUNY
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*[[Jojo Geronimo]] – Education Department, SEIU
  
4.7 Our Bodies/Our Selves? Lower-Class Status, Lower-Class Bodies
 
  
Michelle Tokarczyk – English, Goucher College
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'''4.7 Our Bodies/Our Selves? Lower-Class Status, Lower-Class Bodies'''
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*[[Michelle Tokarczyk]] – English, Goucher College
 
“What eating disorders do you mean? A class analysis of the feminist preoccupation with anorexia and bulimia”
 
“What eating disorders do you mean? A class analysis of the feminist preoccupation with anorexia and bulimia”
Vivyan Adair – Women’s Studies, Hamilton College
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*[[Vivyan Adair]] – Women’s Studies, Hamilton College
 
“Public bodies: the construction and maintenance of poor women’s bodies in U.S. jurisprudence and public theory”
 
“Public bodies: the construction and maintenance of poor women’s bodies in U.S. jurisprudence and public theory”
Betty Smith Franklin – Bloomingdale School, Statesboro, Georgia
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*[[Betty Smith Franklin]] – Bloomingdale School, Statesboro, Georgia
 
“Working life and overworked bodies”
 
“Working life and overworked bodies”
  
4.8 Adjunct Issues as Issues of Social Class in the University – a roundtable
 
 
Shirley Frank – English adjunct, York College and NYC College of Technology, CUNY
 
Kimberly Jones – Social Sciences adjunct, York College, CUNY
 
Vincent Tirelli – Political Science grad., CUNY Graduate Center, and PSC (AFT)
 
Dominic Wetzel – Sociology grad., CUNY Grad Center and Writing Fellow, John Jay College, CUNY
 
 
4.9 Film – Every Mother’s Son
 
Tami Gold - filmmaker
 
  
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'''4.8 Adjunct Issues as Issues of Social Class in the University – a roundtable'''
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*[[Shirley Frank]] – English adjunct, York College and NYC College of Technology, CUNY
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*[[Kimberly Jones]] – Social Sciences adjunct, York College, CUNY
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*[[Vincent Tirelli]] – Political Science grad., CUNY Graduate Center, and PSC (AFT)
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*[[Dominic Wetzel]] – Sociology grad., CUNY Grad Center and Writing Fellow, John Jay College, CUNY
  
    * How Class Works - 2010 Conference (June 3-5, 2010)
 
    * How Class Works - 2008 Conference (June 5-7, 2008)
 
    * How Class Works - 2006 Conference (June 8-10, 2006)
 
    * How Class Works - 2004 Conference (June 10-12, 2004)
 
    * Fiscal Crisis through the Lens of Class (March 28-29, 2003)
 
    * How Class Works, 2002(June 5-9, 2002)
 
  
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'''4.9 Film – Every Mother’s Son'''
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*[[Tami Gold]] - filmmaker<ref>[http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/past/2004/index.shtml]How Class Works - 2004 Conference Schedule, accessed July 24 2010</ref>
  
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How Class Works - 2004 Conference

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0.0 The Working Class with State Power in a Neo-liberal World (co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center)


Class in a Global Economy


2.0 The Working Class and Conservative Politics (co-sponsored by New Labor Forum)



3.0 The Mosaic of Class, Race, and Gender


4.0 Class and War


1.1 Class and Culture

“Defining working-class as culture: have you eaten the cheese?”

“The missing story of ourselves: poverty class in academe”

  • Janet Zandy – English, Rochester Institute of Technology

“To render a working-class life”

“Defining and using class and class labels in empirical research”

1.2 Issues in Inequality

  • Tina Wagle – graduate studies, Empire State College, Buffalo

“The concept of relative wealth yields social reproduction for urban Puerto Ricans”

“Social class, schooling, and social reproduction in the U.S.: a review of the research”

“Globalization and income inequality in the United States”

  • Teal Rothschild, Anthropology/Sociology., Roger Williams Univ., Providence RI

“Teaching class and inequality: how students ‘get’ privilege and inequality”


1.3 Teaching Class through Literature

  • Kathy McDonald – English, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY

“Teaching working class literature in an age of multiculturalism”

“Notes from a novice pedagogue: proletarian literature in the contemporary classroom”

“Reflections on teaching, class, and American modernism”

“Class works through common bonds: melodrama as a motley genre”


1.4 Labor and Globalization

“The domestic workers issue in a globalized era”

  • Sam Ashman – research student, political science, University of Birmingham, UK

“Class, capital, and uneven development”


1.5 Families, Communities, and the Reproduction of Class

“On luck and money: perception of privilege across class”

“Class, childrearing, and culture”

“Home ownership: individual effort, good communities, and the denial of class”

“Reproducing class divisions in ‘universal’ programs for families”


1.6 Organizing Across the Workplace and the Community

“Community-labor coalition building in a multi-racial community: the case of New Haven”

  • David Reynolds – Labor Studies Center, Wayne State University, Detroit

“Partnering for change: lessons from the new wave of labor-community coalitions”

“New Haven’s Trade Union Plaza: ‘by working people for working people’”

  • Janice Fine – Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, and Economic Policy Institute

“Contemporary immigrant worker centers in the U.S. and the prospects for movement building at the nexus of class and ethnicity”


1.7 The Vernacular of Class in Working Class Studies – a roundtable

  • Michael Zweig – Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
  • Jack Metzgar – Humanities, Roosevelt University, Chicago
  • Sherry Linkon - Center for Working Class Studies, Youngstown State University
  • Dorian Warren - American Studies grad, Yale


1.8 Masculinity and Class

“Domestic violence at work”

“’Get your man’: the Pennsylvania Department of State Police, labor, violence, and masculinity during Progressive Era Pennsylvania, 1890-1917“

“Working-class masculinity and professional wrestlers on Long Island”


1.9 Women and Class: Exploring Self, Identities, Power, and Resistance in Women’s Narratives

“’Neither one place nor the other entirely’: positioning oneself on the borders”

“I didn’t know there was a difference: an Irish immigrant woman’s narratives of the undercurrents of class experience”

“’I work because I choose to’: creating a self-satisfying working-class life”

  • Barbara Jensen – psychology, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis

“Resilience, resistance, and working-class pride”


2.1 Women in the Global Economy

“Factory women and their working class identities”

“Nickel and dime jobs: can they benefit vulnerable women?”


2.2 Crossing Class Boundaries

  • Brenda Bretz – associate provost, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penna.

“Working-class students at a private, selective liberal arts college: crossing class boundaries and living in two worlds”

“Working-class college students: interviews with first generation students at a small state college in upstate New York”

“Linking personal stories to cross-class collaboration”

  • Sarah Battaglia – graduate program coordinator, Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook

“From Brooklyn to the ‘burbs: traversing the class divide”

“Class acts: normalizing unequal entitlement in luxury hotels”


2.3 Class and Women’s Studies

“Class in the Women’s Studies classroom”

  • Gail Verdi – education, College of New Rochelle (New York)

“Literacy development and the acquisition of social practices in the lives of four working-class women academics”


2.4 Representations of Class

“Positioning the past”

“How labor gets framed: news by the corporate media”

“Maintaining middle-class boundaries: representation as class war”

“Laughing matters: entertainment television’s mockery of the working class”


2.5 The Relationship of Working Class Studies and Labor Studies – a roundtable

  • Michael Zweig – Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
  • John Russo – Center for Working Class Studies, Youngstown State University
  • Jamie Daniel – University of Illinois, Chicago and AFT
  • Joe Wilson – Graduate Center for Worker Education, Brooklyn College, CUNY


2.6 Teaching Class in Context

“Is Worker Education Class Education? Teaching Class in Context”

  • Tom Nesbit - Continuing Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

“Social Class and Adult Education”


2.7 Reflections on Ralph Miliband’s Contribution to State Theory

“Class power and state power: Miliband’s ‘instrumental’ conception of the state”

“Reconsidering Miliband and state theory: a defense of instrumentalism”

“Miliband and Lasky on class, democracy, and the state”


2.8 Class, Health, and Health Care

“Doctors discover class: the origins of 19th century social medicine”

“Information and quality sorting by patient ability to pay in the New York State market for heart surgeons”


2.9 Strikes: Learning Class Consciousness in Struggle

“Strikes and the politics of reform on the Port of New York: 1945-1960”

“Race and class in the 1919 steel strike”

  • Stan Ketchum – Labor Studies student, University of Indiana, Northwest

“Why the AFL-CIO doesn’t strike for universal health care”

  • Ed Hiatt – Labor Studies student, University of Indiana, Northwest

“Spiraling cost of living and the 1919 steel strike”


2.10 Jack O’Dell and the Success of Principled Non-sectarianism

“Continuities in the freedom movement: Jack O’Dell in the early Cold War”

“Jack O’Dell’s working class affinities”

“Armed with a legacy: lessons learned from Jack O’Dell”


2.11 Film - Stolen Childhood


3.1 Class, Law, and Lawyers

  • Olena Kobzar – undergraduate political science, York Univ., and grad. Carleton Univ.

“Rethinking law and class in North America”

“Unionization, professionalism, and zealous advocacy: the New York Legal Aid Society in the 1960s”


3.2 Race and Class in Communities

  • Jonathan Scott – English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

“A crack in the monolith: Eminem’s missed opportunity”

  • Maggie Ussery – grad, Temple University; anthropology and sociology, Ursinus College

“Refusing to be humbled: the social and economic adaptations of black workers in Philadelphia”

“Race and reform: breaking ranks with the Shanker legacy”

“Marxism meets urban regime theory: a model for understanding racist neoliberalism and class conflict within a majority black city”


3.3 Class Structures in Health Care

“Medical-finance complexes and the structure of health care institutions”

“Hospitals, the uninsured, and the failure of cross-subsidization”


3.4 Unseenamerica: Art, Class, and Voice – a roundtable


3.5 Issues in Class Dynamics in Capitalism

  • John Manley – Political Science, Stanford University (emeritus)

“’Who can we shoot?: the unexceptional American welfare state”

“Class conflict and the capitalist state”

“Base and superstructure and the socialist perspective”

“Social capital and the working class”


3.6 Talking Class in the Labor Media - a roundtable


3.7 Sexual Rights and Representation – a roundtable discussion


3.8 Beneath the Glass Ceiling: Does Race Keep Classes Divided?

four National Labor College students papers from Comparative Research Methods and Senior Seminar – NLC class of 2003


3.9 Class Culture and Social Change – a roundtable


3.10 Using Film to Teach about Class

  • Bill Barry – Labor Studies, Community College of Baltimore County
  • Tom Zaniello – English, Northern Kentucky University
  • Renny Christopher – English, California State University, Channel Islands


4.1 Class Formation and Politics in U.S. History

“Color lines continued: DuBois and the Freedman’s Bureau, Reconstruction, and questions concerning class formation”

“Class politics in the Vietnam anti-war movement”

“From working-class fatalism to activism”


4.2 Working Class Politics in the U.S. Today

“From unions to class: the promise and limits of central labor councils”

  • Nari Rhee – geography grad student, UC Berkeley

“Local policy reforms and labor’s electoral clout: toward a working class politics in Silicon Valley?”

  • Dennis Soron – post-doc at Neoliberal Globalism and its Challengers Project, University of Alberta

“Progressive environmentalism and the problem of working class consumerism”

“Strategizing labor political outreach: air war or ground war?”


4.3 Class in Communities

  • Paul Watt – urban studies, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK

“Class identity among working class public housing tenants in London”

“Regenerating a working class ‘sense of place’”

“’Gentrification in the best sense of the word’: housing, regionalism, and redevelopment in southeastern Baltimore County”

“Builders of the city” pobladores and the territorialization of class identity in Chile”


4.4 Class and Community in the Global South

“The metropolis of hunger: work and conflict in Ceara, Brazil”

  • Peter Ranis – Political Science, York College and CUNY Graduate Center

“The impact of popular rebellion on labor and social movements in Argentina”

“Classes, multitudes, and the politics of community movements in post-apartheid South Africa”

“Reclaiming the public interest: politics of class and community within the Turkish anti- privatization movement”


4.5 Class, Communication, and Community

  • Susan Leggett – Communications, Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA

“No connections? Documenting class privilege”

  • Lee Artz – Communications, Purdue Univ. Calumet

“Freire and Gramsci in communication studies”

“When students see themselves as agents of social change”

“Dangerous formats: the impossible possibilities of community in the classroom”


4.6 Living Class through Race and Gender: Using Biography and Personal Experience to Deepen Understanding


4.7 Our Bodies/Our Selves? Lower-Class Status, Lower-Class Bodies

“What eating disorders do you mean? A class analysis of the feminist preoccupation with anorexia and bulimia”

“Public bodies: the construction and maintenance of poor women’s bodies in U.S. jurisprudence and public theory”

“Working life and overworked bodies”


4.8 Adjunct Issues as Issues of Social Class in the University – a roundtable

  • Shirley Frank – English adjunct, York College and NYC College of Technology, CUNY
  • Kimberly Jones – Social Sciences adjunct, York College, CUNY
  • Vincent Tirelli – Political Science grad., CUNY Graduate Center, and PSC (AFT)
  • Dominic Wetzel – Sociology grad., CUNY Grad Center and Writing Fellow, John Jay College, CUNY


4.9 Film – Every Mother’s Son

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  1. [1]How Class Works - 2004 Conference Schedule, accessed July 24 2010