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

• Rachel Bernstein,
• Henry Foner and
• Evelyn Jones Rich, LaborArts

“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”

• Fred Glass, California Federation of Teachers, AFT, AFL-CIO

“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”

• Betsy Leondar-Wright, United for a Fair Economy

“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”

• Sydney Gluck, U.S.-China Society of Friends, NYC

“ 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”

• Triana Silton, Service Employees International Union

“ Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles”

• Rand Wilson, Service Employees International Union

“ 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”

• John Calagione, CUNY – Center for Worker Education

“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

• Zwelinzima Vavi

General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

8.1 Continuing to Build Working Class Studies

• Michael Zweig, Chair, Stony Brook – Economics

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