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Music by [[Anne Feeney]], readings by [[Barbara Jensen]], [[Gerald McCarthy]], and [[Michelle Tokarczyk]] <ref>[http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/HCW2010.5.28forposting.pdf] How Class Works - 2010 Conference schedule, accessed July 22, 2010</ref>
  
 
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'''1.3 Pedagogy of Class I'''  
 
'''1.3 Pedagogy of Class I'''  
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*[[Sarah Ryan]] and [[Emily Lardner]], The Evergreen State University: Social Class as a “Night School”Theme: Two quarters at The Evergreen State College
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*[[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  
 
*[[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?
 
*[[Joel Saxe]], Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Generational Debt: catalyst to social change and critical class(room) consciousness?
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'''4. Plenary Session: Right Wing Populism and the Working Class'''
 
'''4. Plenary Session: Right Wing Populism and the Working Class'''
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*[[Bill Fletcher]], Jr., Executive Editor, blackcommentator.com
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*[[Bill Fletcher, Jr.]], Executive Editor, blackcommentator.com
 
*[[William K. Tabb]], City University of New York
 
*[[William K. Tabb]], City University of New York
  
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'''5.6 How Class Works—2010 Conference Program'''
 
'''5.6 How Class Works—2010 Conference Program'''
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A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook.This conference is the result of the work and support of many people. At Stony Brook, thanks to *[[Eric Kaler]], provost
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A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook.This conference is the result of the work and support of many people. At Stony Brook, thanks to: 
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*[[Eric Kaler]], provost
 
*[[John Marburger]], Vice-President for Research  
 
*[[John Marburger]], Vice-President for Research  
 
*[[Peter Baigent]],Vice-President for Student Affairs
 
*[[Peter Baigent]],Vice-President for Student Affairs
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'''1.1 New Media in Labor Studies and Working Class Studies'''
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*[[Alyssa Lenoff]], Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University: New Media: Implications for Working-Class Americans
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'''5.6 The Construction of Class Consciousness'''
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*[[Joseph B. Atkins]], Journalism, University of Mississippi: Giving Voice to Southern Workers: The Development of “Labor South”
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*[[John P. Beck]], Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University: Murdering Labor?: How Contemporary Unions Have Fared in the American Mystery Novel, 1979 – 2009
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*[[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
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*[[Karen Veitch]], Literature, University of Sussex: The Poetics of Class-Consciousness: Reading [[Genevieve Taggard]] in the Context of New Masses
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*[[Magnus Nilsson]], Comparative Literature, Malmö University: Swedish Working-Class Literature and the Construction of Class
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*[[Michael J. Boyle]], Graduate Center, City University of New York: Evangelical Faith and Working - Class Politics: Forever at Odds?
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'''5.7 Class and the LGBT Experience'''
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*[[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
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*[[Kim Palmore]], University of California at Riverside: Classing Queers: Heteronormativity, Culture,and Queer Conventions
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*[[Sara R. Smith]], University of California, SantaCruz: Gay and Lesbian Teachers and the Struggle Against the Briggs Initiative, 1976-1978
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*[[Yvette Taylor]], Sociology, Newcastle University: Lesbian and Gay Parents: intersecting spatialites of class and sexuality
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'''6.1 Class and Law I'''
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*[[Ahmed A. White]], University of Colorado School of Law: Law, Liberalism, and Class Violence: The Legacy of the “Little Steel” Strike of 1937
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*[[Anne Marie Lofaso]], West Virginia University College of Law: The Role of Employee Voice in Protecting Collective Job Security
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*[[Carla D. Pratt]], Penn State University Dickinson School of Law: Race, Class, and the Formation of Law and Legal Systems
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'''6.2 Why Is There No Socialism in America?''' 
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*[[Hubert Harrison]] and [[Ted Allen]] - Reflections
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*[[Jeff Perry]], Author, [[Hubert Harrison]]: The Voice of
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Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, and literary executor for Ted Allen
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*[[Sean Ahern]], New York City Teacher and Independent Scholar
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*[[Bill Fletcher, Jr]]., Executive Editor, blackcommentator.com
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'''6.3 Telling Labor Stories'''
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*[[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
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*[[Jane LaTour]], DC37 AFCSME: Sisters in the Brotherhood, working women organizing for equality in New York
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*[[Sue Doro]], National Writers Union SF Bay Chapter; UALE, Retired IAM, Retired AFGE: Home, Heart & Hard Hats, Blue Collar Goodbyes
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*[[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
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'''6.4 Class Dynamics in Europe''', Javits 223 (by videoconference)
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*[[Bruno Monteiro]], Portugal
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*[[Ariel Sevilla]], France
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*[[Simon Charleworth]], United Kingdom
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*[[Joao Queiros]], Portugal
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'''6.5 Pedagogy of Class II'''
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*[[Anthony Tambureno]], OISE University of Toronto: Bringing labor history to youth: Refl ections on the West Virginia Labor History Project
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*[[Emily Drabinski]], Instruction Librarian, Long Island University, Brooklyn: Teaching About Class in the Library
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*[[Michelle B. Gaffey]], English, Duquesne University: A Pedagogical Response to, “I’m never shopping at Wal-Mart again!”
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*[[Sharon Szymanski]] and [[Dianne Ramdeholl]], The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies: Shock Therapy: Class Pedagogy for Electricians
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'''6.6 Studies in Service Work'''
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*[[Cagdas Ceyhan]], Communication Sciences, Anadolu University and [[Mustafa Berkay Aydı]]n, Sociology, Middle East Tecnical University: Retail Workers' Working Conditions, Opinions of 'Organization' and Culture : A Case Study From Ankara/ Turkey
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*[[Lou Martin]], History, Chatham University: Industrial Workers and the Shift to a Service Economy in West Virginia, 1950-1990
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*[[Marquita Walker]], Labor Studies, Indiana University School of Social Work: Strength through cultural heritage: Lived experiences of hotel workers during a union organizing drive
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*[[David Van Arsdale]], Sociology, SUNY Onondaga Community College: The Proliferation and Consequences of Temporary Help Work: A Cross-Border Comparison
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'''6.7 Screening and Discussion: Pakathi – Soweto’s “in the Middle” Class'''
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*[[Mosa Phadi]], University of Johannesburg
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'''7.1 Class in Action: Worker Centers and Organizing'''
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*[[Angela MacWhinnie]], SEIU Organizer
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*[[Jack McKay]], Director, Food and Medicine
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*[[James Haslam]], Director, The Vermont Workers' Center
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'''7.2 Class and Law II'''
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*[[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
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*[[James Grey Pope]], Rutgers School of Law--Newark: Race, Race Consciousness, and Constitutional Law in the Making of the American Working Class, 1787-1964
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'''7.3 Class Consciousness and Worker Action'''
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*[[Christine F. Zinni]], Filmmaker, SUNY Buffalo and [[Ruth Meyerowitz]], SUNY Buffalo: Round The Clock: Buffalo Workers and the Fight For Jobs with Justice
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*[[Claire Ceruti]], Classifiying Soweto project, University of Johannesburg: Striking against a politically explosive background: hidden possibilities in the 2005 - 2007 South African strikes
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*[[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
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*[[Rene Rojas]], Sociology, New York University: Bringing the Shop Back In: Politics of Production and Worker Militancy during the 2008-2009 Bronx Cookie Strike
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'''7.4 The Culture of De-industrialization'''
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*'''Christine J. Walley''', Anthropology, MIT: Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter’s Story
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*[[David Wray]], Social Sciences, University of Northumbria: Class or Collective Biography? : The influence of cultural remnants in post-industrial, single industry, communities
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*[[Scott C. Silber]], Union organizer and community organizer: Sticks and Stones: Storytelling in the Traumatization of the Working Class and Recovery as Resistance
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'''7.5 Country Studies III'''
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*[[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
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*[[Ed Motamed]]: Labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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'''7.6 Dynamics of Class Formation'''
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*[[Shannan Clark]], History, Montclair State University: Contesting the Social Frontiers of Class: White-Collar Unionism in New York City during the Mid-1940s
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*[[Jean Alonso]]: In Harm’s Way: Class Traits and Problems Originating in a Defense Plant
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'''7.7 Class, Race, and Gender in the Building of a Progressive Majority – a roundtable discussion'''
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*[[Carl Bloice]], The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
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*[[Ira Grupper]], The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
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*[[Mark Solomon]], The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
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*[[Mildred Williamson]], Illinois Department of Public Health, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
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'''8.1 Dinner'''
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*[[Barbara Bowen]], speaker, President, Professional Staff Congress - CUNY
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'''8.2 Party'''
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*[[Anne Feeney]] and [[Elise Bryant]], Music
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*[[Maria Maisto]], President, New Faculty Majority "The Condition of Contingent Academic Labor"
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'''9. Plenary Session: The Challenge of Charter Schools'''
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*[[Leo Casey]], Vice-President for High Schools, United Federation of Teachers, NYC
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*[[Kamilah Jarvis]], Chicago charter school teacher/ high school English
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'''10.1 Crashing the Boys’ Club: Women in the Skilled Trades'''
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*[[Amy Bromsen]], Political Science, Wayne State University: Driven over the Brink at Chrysler: The Struggle and Death of [[Linda Gilbert]]
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*[[Amy Peterson]], Nontraditional Employment for Women: NEW: You learn more than just the basics
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*[[Laurel Parker]], IBEW Local 3, Empire State College: Women Building Bridges in the Construction Trades
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'''10.2 Class in Literature I'''
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*[[Alisa Balestra]], Miami University: The Many Articulations of ‘Working-Class’ in [[Leslie Feinberg]]’s Stone Butch Blues
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*[[Sherry Lee Linkon]], Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University: Deindustrialization Lit: Stories from the Next Generation
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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
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*[[Sarah Attfield]], University of Technology, Sydney, Australia: UK Grime and the Expression of Working Class Culture
  
  
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'''1.2 Class and Gender'''
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'''10.3 Class Dynamics in Communities I'''
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*[[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
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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
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*[[Hester Eisenstein]], Sociology, Queens College: Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World
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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
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*[[M. Thandabantu Iverson]], History Labor Studies, Indiana University-Northwest: Beyond Reductionism: Seeing Class Through Race and Gender in Black Healthcare Workers’ Lives
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*[[Joseph Varga]], Labor Studies, Indiana University of Bloomington: Geographies of Class in South Central Indiana
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*[[Melda Y. Ozturk]], Economics, Ondokuz Mayıs University and
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*[[Fran Shor]], History, Wayne State University: U. S. Consumers and the Problematics of Solidarity with Global Sweatshop Workers
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*[[Ozgun Akduran]], Public Finance, Istanbul University: Women’s Labor in Tobacco Producing: Before and After Privatization
 
  
  
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'''1.3 Pedagogy of Class I'''
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'''10.4 Class Confl ict in the Ivory Tower'''
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*[[Sarah Ryan]] and
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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
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*[[Emily Lardner]], The Evergreen State University: Social Class as a “Night School” Theme: Two quarters at The Evergreen State College
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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
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*[[Heather A. Howley]] and
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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
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*[[E.R. Carlin]], University of Akron, Wayne College: Empathy: The Placebo Effect
 
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*[[Joel Saxe]], Communication, University of Massachusett - Amherst: Generational Debt: catalyst to social change and critical class(room) consciousness?
 
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*[[Raymond A. Mazurek]], English & American Studies, Penn State University, Berks Campus: Students Gaze in a Working-Class Mirror: Teaching the Working-Class Experience in America
 
  
  
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1.4 Country Studies 1, SAC 308
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'''10.5 The Changing Labor Process and Working Class Experience'''
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Ozgur Narin, Economics, Ondokuz Mayis University
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*[[Umit Akcay]], Economics, Ordu University: Young, Cheap, Flexible and Un-unionized: New Participants of Working Class, The Call Centre Workers
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and Ozgur Mutlu Ulus, Acıbadem University:
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*[[Charley Richardson]], Labor Extension Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell: Working Alone: Isolation and Class Solidarity in the Modern Workplace
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Alpagut Factory Occupation: First Experience
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*[[Laura Clawson]], Working America: The Decline of Associationalism and Prospects for Working-Class Mobilization
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of Workers' Self Management in Turkey
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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
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Tara Martin, Sociology, University of New Mexico:
 
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Crosscurrents of Memory: Myth, Rank and File
 
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Memory, and Britain’s Winter of Discontent
 
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Hugo Chesshire, Political Science, Brock University:
 
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In Hostile Waters: The 2009 Concessions of the
 
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Canadian Autoworkers Union
 
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3:30-5:00pm
 
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2. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
 
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Center
 
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2.1 Class Dynamics in Higher Education
 
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and the Professions, SAC 311
 
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Amy E. Stich, Sociology of Education, SUNY
 
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Buffalo: Working-Class Reputation and the Syntax of
 
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Rusted Space: A Damaging Discursive Practice within
 
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Higher Education
 
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Kristin Cipollone, Sociology of Education, SUNY
 
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Buffalo: When College is the Only Choice: Post-
 
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Secondary Selection Processes of Middle- and Upper
 
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Middle-Class Students Attending an Affl uent Public
 
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High School
 
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Julie Withers, Butte College: Class Act: Negotiating
 
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class dynamics at a rural community college
 
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page 2 How Class Works—2010
 
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2.2 The Working Class after
 
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Neoliberalism, SAC 304
 
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Colm Breathnach Geography and Sociology,
 
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University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Mapping the
 
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Global Working Class Today
 
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Neil Davidson, Geography and Sociology, University
 
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of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Theory and 21st
 
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Century Workers: Defi nitions, Boundaries, Interests
 
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Patricia McCafferty, Geography and Sociology,
 
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University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: From Workshop
 
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of the World to Service Sector Central: Glasgow’s
 
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East End Today
 
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2.3 Class Issues in History, SAC 308
 
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Gregory Wood, History, Frostburg State University:
 
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Smokes on a Train: Smoking and Class Struggles
 
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on the New York City Subway, 1904-1913
 
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John Lloyd, History, California State Polytechnic
 
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University, Pomona: Crowds, Class and Community:
 
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The Pittsburgh ‘Mob’ and the Strike of 1877
 
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Peter S. McInnis, History, St. Francis Xavier University:
 
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Incident at Reesor Siding: Bushworkers and
 
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the Historical Memory of Violent Confrontation
 
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Vilja Hulden, History, University of Arizona: The
 
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payoffs of class privilege: The National Association of
 
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Manufacturers vs. labor in Congress, 1902-1914
 
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2.4 Calling the Labor Movement to
 
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Discover the Working Class, SAC 305
 
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Bob Fitch, Former Union Organizer, Author:
 
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Needed: A Labor Left that refl ects real democracy and
 
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unites workers by reaching across restrictive jurisdictional
 
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lines
 
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Joseph B. Atkins, Journalism, University of Mississippi:
 
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A Call for an Independent, Consciousness-
 
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Raising Labor Media
 
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Martin Fishgold, Editor, The Unionist, AFSCME,
 
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past president of the International Labor
 
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Communications Association: The Failure of
 
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Unions and Their Media to Reach Out to the Working
 
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Class
 
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Steve Early, Writer, Organizer: The High Price of
 
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Health Care for Some: How EFCA Became The First
 
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Casualty of ObamaCare
 
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2.5 Country Studies II, SAC 303
 
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Frido Wenten, Political Science, Free University
 
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Berlin: Changing class relations and labour struggles
 
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in post-1978 China
 
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Kurtuluş Cengiz, Sociology, Abant Izzet Baysal
 
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University: The New Industrial Class of Turkey between
 
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Community and Market: A Cross-Section from
 
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an Anatolian City/Kayseri
 
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Ugo Palheta, Sociology, Sciences-Po Paris: Class
 
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Struggle, Struggling Classes. The Social Stratifi cation
 
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of the “anti-CPE” Movement in France (2006)
 
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6:30pm - 7:30pm
 
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Registration reopens in the Student Activities
 
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Center (SAC) Lobby
 
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7:30-9:30pm
 
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3. Opening Plenary Session, SAC Ballroom B
 
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Provost Lecture Series, open to the public
 
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Larry Cohen, International President, Communications
 
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Workers of America: Economic Crisis,
 
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Political Paralysis: What's the Working Class to Do?
 
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How Class Works—2010 page 3
 
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Friday, June 4
 
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Registration reopens 8:00am-5:00pm
 
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SAC lobby
 
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8:00am
 
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Continental Breakfast, SAC Ballroom A
 
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9-10:30am
 
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4. Plenary Session: Right Wing Populism
 
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and the Working Class, SAC Ballroom A
 
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Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor, blackcommentator.
 
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com
 
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William K. Tabb, City University of New York
 
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10:45am-12:15pm
 
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5. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities Center
 
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5.1 Immigrant Class Identities, SAC 306
 
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Anilyn Díaz-Hernández, Communication, UMass
 
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Amherst: Morphing into Childhood: Changes,
 
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Chances and Choices in the Life of a Middle-Class
 
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Man
 
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David Avishay, Communication, UMass Amherst:
 
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Class Journeys? The Role of Class in the Identity Formation
 
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of an Israeli "Good Girl"
 
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Liliana Herakova, Communication, UMass Amherst:
 
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Journeys of Belonging
 
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Swati Birla, Sociology, UMass Amherst: A Question
 
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of Privilege
 
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5.2 Class Dynamics in Brazil, SAC 305
 
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Berenice Abreu, Social History, Universidade
 
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Estadual do Ceará: The Ship Sail on: the Politics of
 
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Class and Brazil´s Northeast Fishermen’s Movement
 
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Frederico de Castro Neves, Labor History, Universidade
 
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Federal do Ceará: Working Class Protest
 
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and Revolt in Rural Brazil
 
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William Mello, Labor Studies, Indiana University:
 
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The Legion of Workers: Class Formation and Right
 
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Wing Labor Organizations in Northeast Brazil
 
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5.3 Rank and File Research from the
 
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National Labor College, SAC 304
 
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Eduardo Rosario, National Writers Guild: Dismantling
 
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The Manufacturing Clause: Another Victim
 
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of Deregulation
 
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Joe Potestivo, International Union of Elevator
 
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Constructors: The Case of the I.U.E.C., Local One
 
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New York City: Succeed Together or Fail Individually
 
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John Graham, United Brotherhood of Carpenters:
 
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Health Impact of Emergency Response and Recovery
 
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Work at the World Trade Center Following 9-11
 
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Lainie Kitt, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
 
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and American Federation of Teachers,
 
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Adjunct Professor, National Labor College: Post-
 
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Traumatic Stress among Housing Authority Workers
 
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in New York City after 9-1, Chair
 
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Leah Rambo, Sheet Metal Workers International
 
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Association: Embracing Diversity: The Key to Building
 
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Strong Unions
 
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5.4. What Do Working Class Students
 
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Need in Higher Education? - a roundtable
 
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discussion, SAC 302
 
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Sherry Lee Linkon, Center for Working-Class
 
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Studies, Youngstown State University
 
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Chynna Haas, Working-Class Student Union
 
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Jack Metzgar, Chicago Center for Working-Class
 
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Studies
 
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Nancy Berke, English, LaGuardia College, City
 
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University of New York
 
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Tim Francisco, Journalism, Youngstown State
 
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University
 
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5.5 Mothering from the Margins, SAC 308
 
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Kinohi Nishikawa, Literature, Duke University:
 
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Sons and Mothers: Broken Family Narratives in the
 
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Post-Civil Rights Moment
 
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Leigh Campoamor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke
 
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University: “Who Are You Calling Exploitative?”
 
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Child Laborers, Sacrifi cial Mothers, and the Uncaring
 
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State in Lima, Peru
 
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Sara Appel, Literature, Duke University: Safely
 
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in the Net: Interdependence and the Working-Class
 
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Superhero in Katherine Arnoldi's The Amazing 'True'
 
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Story of a Teenage Single Mom
 
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page 4 How Class Works—2010
 
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5.6 The Construction of Class
 
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Consciousness, SAC 303
 
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John P. Beck, Labor and Industrial Relations,
 
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Michigan State University: Murdering Labor?:
 
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How Contemporary Unions Have Fared in the American
 
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Mystery Novel, 1979 – 2009
 
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Karen Veitch, Literature, University of Sussex:
 
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The Poetics of Class-Consciousness: Reading Genevieve
 
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Taggard in the Context of New Masses
 
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Magnus Nilsson, Comparative Literature, Malmö
 
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University: Swedish Working-Class Literature and the
 
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Construction of Class
 
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Michael J. Boyle, Graduate Center, City University
 
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of New York: Evangelical Faith and Working-
 
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Class Politics: Forever at Odds?
 
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5.7 Class and the LGBT Experience, SAC
 
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311
 
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Jeff A. Cabusao, English, Bryant University and
 
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Todd Shaw, Political Science, University of
 
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South Carolina: Barriers Beyond Stonewall: Class,
 
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Race, and the LGBT Economic Justice Movement
 
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Kim Palmore, University of California at Riverside:
 
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Classing Queers: Heteronormativity, Culture,
 
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and Queer Conventions
 
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Sara R. Smith, University of California, Santa
 
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Cruz: Gay and Lesbian Teachers and the Struggle
 
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Against the Briggs Initiative, 1976-1978
 
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Yvette Taylor, Sociology, Newcastle University:
 
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Lesbian and Gay Parents: intersecting spatialites of
 
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class and sexuality
 
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2:00-3:30pm
 
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6.Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
 
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Center
 
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6.1 Class and Law I , SAC 304
 
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Ahmed A. White, University of Colorado School
 
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of Law: Law, Liberalism, and Class Violence: The
 
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Legacy of the “Little Steel” Strike of 1937
 
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Anne Marie Lofaso, West Virginia University
 
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College of Law: The Role of Employee Voice in Protecting
 
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Collective Job Security
 
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Carla D. Pratt, Penn State University Dickinson
 
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School of Law: Race, Class, and the Formation of
 
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Law and Legal Systems
 
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6.2 Why Is There No Socialism in
 
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America? Refl ections from Hubert
 
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Harrison and Ted Allen, SAC 303
 
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Jeff Perry, Author, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of
 
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Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, and literary executor
 
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for Ted Allen
 
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Sean Ahern, New York City Teacher and Independent
 
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Scholar
 
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Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor, blackcommentator.
 
−
com
 
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6.3 Telling Labor Stories, SAC 302
 
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Betty Wilson, Curriculum developer for the City
 
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of 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 & 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)
 
−
Bruno Monteiro, Portugal
 
−
Ariel Sevilla, France
 
−
Simon Charleworth, United Kingdom
 
−
Joao Queiros, Portugal
 
−
How Class Works—2010 page 5
 
−
6.5 Pedagogy of Class II, SAC 305
 
−
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, SAC 311
 
−
Çağdaş 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, SAC 308
 
−
Mosa Phadi, University of Johannesburg
 
−
3:45-5:15pm
 
−
7. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
 
−
Center
 
−
7.1 Class in Action: Worker Centers and
 
−
Organizing, SAC 303
 
−
Angela MacWhinnie, SEIU Organizer
 
−
Jack McKay, Director, Food and Medicine
 
−
James Haslam, Director, The Vermont Workers'
 
−
Center
 
−
7.2 Class and Law II, SAC 304
 
−
Ellen Dannin, Penn State University Dickinson
 
−
School of Law: Not a Limited, Confi ned, 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, SAC 305
 
−
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, Classifi ying Soweto project, University
 
−
of Johannesburg: Striking against a politically
 
−
explosive background: hidden possibilities in the
 
−
2005 - 2007 South African strikes
 
−
Esra Dabağcı, Sociology, Ankara University and
 
−
Mustafa Kemal Coş kun, Sociology, Ankara
 
−
University: Class Consciousness as Interpretation and
 
−
Changing Act of the Social Life: The Case of Mineworkers
 
−
in Turkey
 
−
René Rojas, Sociology, New York University:
 
−
Bringing the Shop Back In: Politics of Production
 
−
and Worker Militancy during the 2008-2009 Bronx
 
−
Cookie Strike
 
−
page 6 How Class Works—2010
 
−
7.4 The Culture of De-industrialization,
 
−
SAC 311
 
−
Christine J. Walley, Anthropology, MIT: Deindustrializing
 
−
Chicago: A Daughter’s Story
 
−
David Wray, Social Sciences, University of Northumbria:
 
−
Class or Collective Biography? : The
 
−
infl uence 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. SAC 308
 
−
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, SAC 306
 
−
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, SAC 302
 
−
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
 
−
7:00pm
 
−
8. Conference Banquet
 
−
8.1 Dinner, Student Activities Center Ballroom A
 
−
Speaker: Barbara Bowen, President, Professional Staff
 
−
Congress - CUNY, AFT 2334
 
−
10:00pm
 
−
8.2 Party
 
−
Music by Anne Feeney and Elise Bryant
 
−
Saturday, June 5
 
−
Registration reopens 8:00am-2:00pm, SAC
 
−
Lobby
 
−
8:00am
 
−
Continental Breakfast, SAC Ballroom A
 
−
8:00-9:00am
 
−
Maria Maisto, President, New Faculty
 
−
Majority "The Condition of Contingent
 
−
Academic Labor", SAC Ballroom A
 
−
9:00-10:30am
 
−
9. Plenary Session: The Challenge of
 
−
Charter Schools, SAC Ballroom A
 
−
Leo Casey, Vice-President for High Schools,
 
−
United Federation of Teachers, NYC
 
−
Kamilah Jarvis, Chicago charter school teacher/
 
−
high school English
 
−
How Class Works—2010 page 7
 
−
10:45am-12:15pm
 
−
10. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
 
−
Center
 
−
10.1 Crashing the Boys’ Club: Women in
 
−
the Skilled Trades, SAC 306
 
−
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, SAC 304
 
−
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 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
+
*[[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
+
 
−
of New York Downstate School of Public
+
 
−
Health, Brooklyn, NY: Changing Nature of Work
+
'''10.6 Theories of Class'''
−
and Worker Health: Evidence and Labor Union Interventions
+
*[[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
+
*[[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
+
*[[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
+
*[[Andor Skotnes]], History, The Sage Colleges: Paper: Rethinking Nicos Poulantzas and the Structural Determination of Class
−
Caste: Trajectory of an Erroneous Discourse from Max
+
 
−
Weber to Louis Dumont
+
 
−
Konstantinos Passas, National University of Athens:
+
'''10.7 Class Tracks in Language'''
−
Class Structure of Greek Society: A Comment on
+
*[[Jacqueline Preston]], English, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Collective Rhetorics: Tropes, Schemes, and Ideographs in Two Rural Communities
−
Productive and Unproductive Labor
+
*[[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
+
*[[Janice Kelly]], Communication, Molloy College and [[Millie Burns]], Art, Marymount Manhattan College: Conflicting Messages: Hip Hop Reality TV shows Moguls’ Formula For Success, Class, and Culture
−
Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party: Beyond
+
 
−
Money: Towards a New Defi nition of Class
+
 
−
Andor Skotnes, History, The Sage Colleges: Paper:
+
'''11.1 The Working Class in Contemporary U.S. Politics'''
−
Rethinking Nicos Poulantzas and the Structural Determination
+
*[[Carl Davidson]], Author, and Co-chair, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
−
of Class
+
*[[Randy Shannon]], Treasurer of Pennsylvania 4th Congressional District Chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
−
10.7 Class Tracks in Language, SAC 308
+
*[[Renee Y. Carter]], Co-Chair, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
−
Jacqueline Preston, English, University of
+
 
−
Wisconsin-Madison: Collective Rhetorics: Tropes,
+
 
−
Schemes, and Ideographs in Two Rural Communities
+
'''11.2 The Academic Job Market in Working Class Studies – a roundtable discussion'''
−
Kim Hackett, English Composition, University of
+
*[[Allison L. Hurst]], Sociology, Furman University
−
Akron: Language Differences in a Juvenile Correctional
+
*[[Cherie Rankin]], English, Heartland Community College
−
Classroom: A Teacher’s Experience
+
*[[Christie Launius]], English, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
−
Janice Kelly, Communication, Molloy College
+
*[[Debbie Warnock]], Sociology, University of Washington
−
and Millie Burns, Art, Marymount Manhattan
+
*[[Michele Fazio]], English, University of North Carolina-Pembroke
−
College: Confl icting Messages: Hip Hop Reality
+
*[[Sara Appel]], Literature, Duke University
−
TV shows Moguls’ Formula For Success, Class, and
+
*[[Terry Easton]], English, Gainesville State College
−
Culture
+
 
−
12:45-1:45pm
+
 
−
Annual Meeting of the Working Class
+
'''11.3 The Arts in Working Class Activity'''
−
Studies Association, SAC 305
+
*[[Erika Schneider]] and [[Jon Huibregtse]], Framingham State College: Art in Federal Buildings: Class struggles for an acceptable past
−
2:00-3:30pm
+
*[[Carol Quirke]], American Studies, SUNY Old Westbury: “A United Nations in One Union Shop:” Local 65 Distributive Workers Union and Representing Diversity
−
11. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
+
*[[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
−
Center
+
 
−
11.1 The Working Class in Contemporary
+
 
−
U.S. Politics, SAC 306
+
'''11.4 Country Studies IV'''
−
Carl Davidson, Author, and Co-chair, The Committees
+
*[[Erik Bengtsson]], Economic History, University of Gothenburg: Workers’ Party, Workers’ Politics? Blue-collar workers in the Swedish Social Democratic Party today
−
of Correspondence for Democracy and
+
*[[Hugo Ceron-Anaya]], Sociology and Anthropology, Washington College: Golf, Class, and Business in Mexico: A Case Study
−
Socialism
+
*[[Claire Ceruti]], Classifiying Soweto project, University of Johannesburg: Are Soweto’s Unemployed a Labour Reserve?
−
Randy Shannon, Treasurer of Pennsylvania 4th
+
 
−
Congressional District Chapter of Progressive
+
 
−
Democrats of America, The Committees of Correspondence
+
'''11.5 Class in Literature II'''
−
for Democracy and Socialism
+
*[[Vanessa Hall]], New York City College of Technology: Blue Collar Redux: Carver and the Working Class Renaissance of the 1970s
−
Renee Y. Carter, Co-Chair, The Committees of
+
*[[Joan Clingan]], Humanities and Sustainability Education, Prescott College: Sustainable Justice: Considering Social and Ecological Justice through Literature
−
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
+
*[[Linda McCarriston]], Creative Writing & Literary Arts, University of Alaska Anchorage: Tillie’s Generation
−
11.2 The Academic Job Market in Working
+
 
−
Class Studies – a roundtable discussion,
+
 
−
SAC 302
+
'''11.6 Class and Blackness'''
−
Allison L. Hurst, Sociology, Furman University
+
*[[Gregory Caldwell]], History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Division of [[Robert Beck]]: A Melancholic Performance of US-Style Patriarchy
−
Cherie Rankin, English, Heartland Community
+
*[[Shanesha Brooks Tatum]], American Culture, University of Michigan: Embodiment and the Politics of Craft: Black Women's Craft Communities
−
College
+
*[[Tracy Carpenter]], Comparative Studies, Ohio State University: African American Women and the Recovery Folk Movement
−
Christie Launius, English, University of Wisconsin-
+
 
−
Oshkosh
+
 
−
Debbie Warnock, Sociology, University of Washington
+
'''12.1 Class Dynamics in Communities II'''
−
Michele Fazio, English, University of North
+
*[[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
−
Carolina-Pembroke
+
*[[Nathan D. Delaney]], History, University of Toledo: Community as Class
−
Sara Appel, Literature, Duke University
+
*[[Stefan Ramsden]], History, University of Hull: The remaking of working-class community 1945-2000
−
Terry Easton, English, Gainesville State College
+
 
−
11.3 The Arts in Working Class Activity, SAC
+
 
−
303
+
'''12.2 Country Studies V'''
−
Erika Schneider and Jon Huibregtse, , Framingham
+
*[[Cemil Boyraz]], International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University: Working-Class Reactions against Neo-Liberalism: An Analysis of Privatization Process in Turkey after the 1980s
−
State College: Art in Federal Buildings: Class
+
*[[Funmi Adewumi]], Industrial Relations and Economics & Management Sciences, Osun State University: Trade Unions in the Global Economy: The Challenge of Social Movement Unionism
−
struggles for an acceptable past
+
*[[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.
−
Carol Quirke, American Studies, SUNY Old
+
 
−
Westbury: “A United Nations in One Union Shop:”
+
 
−
Local 65 Distributive Workers Union and Representing
+
'''12.3 The Language of Class in Politics'''
−
Diversity
+
*[[Betsy Leondar-Wright]], Sociology, Boston College: TALKING OFTEN VS. TALKING LONG Towards a Sociolinguistics of the Class Cultures of Activist Groups
−
Ruth Meyerowitz, SUNY Buffalo: Channels: Stories
+
*[[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
−
From the Niagara Frontier: Three Years of Short
+
*[[Steve McClure]], Geography and Geo-information Science, George Mason University: Actionable intelligence: zoning, land use and election outcomes in Prince William County Virginia<ref>[http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/HCW2010.5.28forposting.pdf] How Class Works - 2010 Conference schedule, accessed July 22, 2010</ref>
−
Films about Effective Community Based Strategies to
+
 
−
Deal with Issues of Class, Poverty and Public Policy
+
==Speakers list==
−
11.4 Country Studies IV, SAC 304
+
*[[Berenice Abreu]]
−
Erik Bengtsson, Economic History, University
+
*[[Funmi Adewumi]]
−
of Gothenburg: Workers’ Party, Workers’ Politics?
+
*[[Sean Ahern]]
−
Blue-collar workers in the Swedish Social Democratic
+
*[[Umit Akcayo]]
−
Party today
+
*[[Jean Alonso]]
−
Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Sociology and Anthropology,
+
*[[Sara Appel]]
−
Washington College: Golf, Class, and Business in
+
*[[Joseph B. Atkins]]
−
Mexico: A Case Study
+
*[[Sarah Attfield]]
−
Claire Ceruti, Classifi ying Soweto project, University
+
*[[David Avishay]]
−
of Johannesburg: Are Soweto’s Unemployed a
+
*[[Mustafa Berkay Aydin]]
−
Labour Reserve?
+
*[[Alisa Balestra]]
−
How Class Works—2010 page 9
+
*[[John P. Beck]]
−
11.5 Class in Literature II, SAC 311
+
*[[Erik Bengtsson]]
−
Vanessa Hall, New York City College of Technology:
+
*[[Nancy Berke]]
−
Blue Collar Redux: Carver and the Working
+
*[[Alpkan Birelma]]
−
Class Renaissance of the 1970s
+
*[[Carl Bloice]]
−
Joan Clingan, Humanities and Sustainability
+
*[[Sudarshana Bordoloi]]
−
Education, Prescott College: Sustainable Justice:
+
*[[Barbara Bowen]]
−
Considering Social and Ecological Justice through
+
*[[Michael J. Boyle]]
−
Literature
+
*[[Cemil Boyra]]z
−
Linda McCarriston, Creative Writing & Literary
+
*[[Colm Breathnac]]h
−
Arts, University of Alaska Anchorage: Tillie’s
+
*[[Amy Bromsen]]
−
Generation
+
*[[Elise Bryant]]
−
11.6 Class and Blackness, SAC 305
+
*[[Millie Burns]]
−
Gregory Caldwell, History of Consciousness, University
+
*[[Jeff A. Cabusao]]
−
of California, Santa Cruz: The Division of
+
*[[Gregory Caldwell]]
−
Robert Beck: A Melancholic Performance of US-Style
+
*[[Leigh Campoamor]]
−
Patriarchy
+
*[[E.R. Carlin]]
−
Shanesha Brooks Tatum, American Culture, University
+
*[[Tracy Carpenter]]
−
of Michigan: Embodiment and the Politics of
+
*[[Renee Carter|Renee Y. Carter]]
−
Craft: Black Women's Craft Communities
+
*[[Leo Casey]]
−
Tracy Carpenter, Comparative Studies, Ohio
+
*[[Kurtulus Cengiz]]
−
State University: African American Women and the
+
*[[Hugo Ceron-Anaya]]
−
Recovery Folk Movement
+
*[[Claire Ceruti]]
−
3:45-5:15pm
+
*[[Cagdas Ceyhan]]
−
12. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
+
*[[Simon Charleworth]]
−
Center
+
*[[Hugo Chesshire]]
−
12.1 Class Dynamics in Communities II,
+
*[[Kristin Cipollone]]
−
SAC 304
+
*[[Laura Clawson]]
−
Beshon Smith, The University of Maryland-Baltimore
+
*[[Joan Clingan]]
−
County: Caution at the Crossroad: The Intersection
+
*[[Larry Cohen]]
−
of Class and Culture for Upwardly Mobile,
+
*[[Mustafa Kemal Coskun]]
−
African American Families and their Neighborhood
+
 
−
Choices
+
*[[Esra Dabagci]]
−
Nathan D. Delaney, History, University of Toledo:
+
*[[Ellen Dannin]]
−
Community as Class
+
*[[Carl Davidson]]
−
Stefan Ramsden, History, University of Hull: The
+
*[[Neil Davidson]]
−
remaking of working-class community 1945-2000
+
*[[Nathan D. Delaney]]
−
12.2 Country Studies V, SAC 311
+
*[[Anilyn Diaz-Hernandez]]
−
Cemil Boyraz, International Relations, Istanbul
+
 
−
Bilgi University: Working-Class Reactions against
+
*[[Sue Doro]]
−
Neo-Liberalism: An Analysis of Privatization Process
+
*[[Emily Drabinski]]
−
in Turkey after the 1980s
+
*[[Steve Early]]
−
Funmi Adewumi, Industrial Relations and
+
*[[Terry Easton]]
−
Economics & Management Sciences, Osun State
+
*[[Hester Eisenstein]]
−
University: Trade Unions in the Global Economy: The
+
*[[Michele Fazio]]
−
Challenge of Social Movement Unionism
+
*[[Anne Feeney]]
−
Tim Fowler, Political Science, Carleton University:
+
*[[Martin Fishgold]]
−
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up
+
*[[Robert Fitch|Bob Fitch]]
−
nowhere: Canadian labour and strategic voting.
+
*[[Bill Fletcher, Jr.]]
−
12.3 The Language of Class in Politics, SAC
+
*[[Tim Fowler]]
−
308
+
*[[Tim Francisco]]
−
Betsy Leondar-Wright, Sociology, Boston Col
+
*[[Michelle B. Gaffey]]
−
lege: TALKING OFTEN VS. TALKING LONG
+
*[[Ira Grupper]]
−
Towards a Sociolinguistics of the Class Cultures of
+
*[[Chynna Haas]]
−
Activist Groups
+
*[[Kim Hackett]]
−
Robert M. Zecker, History, Saint Francis Xavier
+
*[[Vanessa Hall]]
−
University: “Do You Take us for Kaffi rs or Zulus?”
+
*[[James Haslam]]
−
Race, Labor and Housing Competition as Seen in the
+
*[[Penelope Hayes]]
−
Slovak Immigrant Press
+
*[[Liliana Herakova]]
−
Steve McClure, Geography and Geo-information
+
*[[Heather A. Howley]]
−
Science, George Mason University: Actionable
+
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intelligence: zoning, land use and election outcomes in
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*[[Vilja Hulden]]
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*[[Allison L. Hurst]]
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*[[M. Thandabantu Iverson]]
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Floor Lounge
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*[[Kamilah Jarvis]]
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*[[Barbara Jensen]]
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*[[Janice Kelly]]
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Berenice Abreu 5.2
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*[[Lainie Kitt]]
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Funmi Adewumi 12.2
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*[[Paul Landsbergis]]
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Sean Ahern 6.2
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*[[Emily Lardner]]
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Ümit Akçay 10.5
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*[[Jane LaTour]]
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Jean Alonso 7.6
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*[[Christie Launius]]
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Sara Appel 5.5, 11.2
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*[[Alyssa Lenoff]]
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Joseph B. Atkins 1.1, 2.4
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*[[Betsy Leondar-Wright]]
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Sarah Attfi eld 10.2
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David Avishay 5.1
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*[[Nancy Lessin]]
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Mustafa Berkay Aydin 6.6
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*[[Tim Libretti]]
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Alisa Balestra 10.2
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*[[Sherry Lee Linkon]]
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John P. Beck 5.6
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*[[John Lloyd]]
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Erik Bengtsson 11.4
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*[[Anne Marie Lofaso]]
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Nancy Berke 5.4
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*[[Angela MacWhinnie]]
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Alpkan Birelma 10.3
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*[[Maria Maisto]]
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Swati Birla 5.1
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Carl Bloice 7.7
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*[[Lou Martin]]
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Sudarshana Bordoloi 10.3
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*[[Tara Martin]]
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Barbara Bowen 8.1
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*[[Raymond A. Mazurek]]
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Michael J. Boyle 5.6
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*[[Patricia McCafferty]]
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Cemil Boyraz 12.2
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*[[Linda McCarriston]]
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Colm Breathnach 2.2
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*[[Gerald McCarthy]]
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Amy Bromsen 10.1
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*[[Steve McClure]]
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Elise Bryant 8.2
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*[[Peter S. McInnis]]
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Millie Burns 10.7
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*[[Jack McKay]]
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Jeff A. Cabusao 5.7
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*[[William Mello]]
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Gregory Caldwell 11.6
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*[[Jack Metzgar]]
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Leigh Campoamor 5.5
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*[[Ruth Meyerowitz]]
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E.R. Carlin 1.3
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*[[Francine Moccio]]
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Tracy Carpenter 11.6
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*[[Bruno Monteiro]]
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Renee Y. Carter 11.1
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*[[Ed Motamed]]
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Leo Casey 9
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*[[Ozgur Narin]]
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Kurtuluş Cengiz 2.5
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*[[Frederico de Castro Neves]]
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Hugo Ceron-Anaya 11.4
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Claire Ceruti 7.3, 11.4
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*[[Magnus Nilsson]]
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Çağdaş Ceyhan 6.6
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*[[Kinohi Nishikawa]]
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Simon Charleworth 6.4
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*[[Sharon O’Dair]]
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Hugo Chesshire 1.4
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Kristin Cipollone 2.1
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Shannan Clark 7.6
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*[[Kim Palmore]]
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Laura Clawson 10.5
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Joan Clingan 11.5
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Larry Cohen 3
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Mustafa Kemal Coşkun
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Esra Dabağci 7.3
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Ellen Dannin 7.2
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Carl Davidson 11.1
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Neil Davidson 2.2
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*[[Carla D. Pratt]]
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Nathan D. Delaney 12.1
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Anilyn Díaz-Hernández
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Sue Doro 6.3
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Emily Drabinski 6.5
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Steve Early 2.4
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Terry Easton 11.2
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Hester Eisenstein 1.2
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*[[Charley Richardson]]
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Michele Fazio 11.2
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Anne Feeney 0, 8.2
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Martin Fishgold 2.4
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Bob Fitch 2.4
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Bill Fletcher, Jr. 4, 6.2
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Tim Fowler 12.2
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Tim Francisco 5.4
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Michelle B. Gaffey 6.5
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John Graham 5.3
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Ira Grupper 7.7
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Chynna Haas 5.4
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Kim Hackett 10.7
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Vanessa Hall 11.5
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James Haslam 7.1
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Penelope Hayes 7.5
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Liliana Herakova 5.1
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Heather A. Howley 1.3
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Jon Huibregtse 11.3
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Vilja Hulden 2.3
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Allison L. Hurst 11.2
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M. Thandabantu Iverson
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Janice Kelly 10.7
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Lainie Kitt 5.3
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Paul Landsbergis 10.5
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Emily Lardner 1.3
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Christie Launius 11.2
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Betsy Leondar-Wright
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Nancy Lessin 10.5
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Peter S. McInnis 2.3
 
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Jack McKay 7.1
 
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William Mello 5.2
 
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Jack Metzgar 5.4
 
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Ruth Meyerowitz 7.3, 11.3
 
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Francine Moccio 1.2
 
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Bruno Monteiro 6.4
 
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Ed Motamed 7.5
 
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Ozgur Narin 1.4
 
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Frederico de Castro Neves
 
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Magnus Nilsson 5.6
 
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Kinohi Nishikawa 5.5
 
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Sharon O’Dair 10.4
 
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Melda Y. Öztürk 1.2
 
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Ugo Palheta 2.5
 
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Kim Palmore 5.7
 
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Ajay Panicker 10.3
 
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Laurel Parker 10.1
 
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Konstantinos Passas 10.6
 
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Jeff Perry 6.2
 
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Amy Peterson 10.1
 
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Mosa Phadi 6.7
 
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James Grey Pope 7.2
 
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Joe Potestivo 5.3
 
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Carla D. Pratt 6.1
 
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Jacqueline Preston 10.7
 
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Joao Queiros 6.4
 
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Carol Quirke 11.3
 
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Leah Rambo 5.3
 
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Dianne Ramdeholl 6.5
 
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Stefan Ramsden 12.1
 
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Cherie Rankin 11.2
 
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Charley Richardson 10.5
 
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René Rojas 7.3
 
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Eduardo Rosario 5.3
 
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John Russo 1.1
 
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Sarah Ryan 1.3
 
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Joel Saxe 1.3
 
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Erika Schneider 11.3
 
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Ron Scott 10.6
 
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Ariel Sevilla 6.4
 
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Randy Shannon 11.1
 
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Todd Shaw 5.7
 
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Timothy Sheard 6.3
 
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Fran Shor 10.3
 
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Scott C. Silber 7.4
 
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Hira Singh 10.6
 
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Andor Skotnes 10.6
 
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Beshon Smith 12.1
 
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Sara R. Smith 5.7
 
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Mark Solomon 7.7
 
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Amy E. Stich 2.1
 
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Steve Street 10.4
 
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Sharon Szymanski 6.5
 
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William K. Tabb 4
 
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Anthony Tambureno 6.5
 
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Shanesha Brooks Tatum
 
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Yvette Taylor 5.7
 
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Michelle M. Tokarczyk 0,
 
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10.4
 
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Ozgur Mutlu Ulus 1.4
 
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David Van Arsdale 6.6
 
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Joseph Varga 10.3
 
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Karen Veitch 5.6
 
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Marquita Walker 6.6
 
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Christine J. Walley 7.4
 
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Debbie Warnock 11.2
 
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Frido Wenten 2.5
 
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Ahmed A. White 6.1
 
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Mildred Williamson 7.7
 
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Betty Wilson 6.3
 
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Julie Withers 2.1
 
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Gregory Wood 2.3
 
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David Wray 7.4
 
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Robert M. Zecker 12.3
 
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Christine F. Zinni 7.3
 
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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 [1]

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: Conflicting 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


11.3 The Arts in Working Class Activity

  • 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

  • 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, Classifiying Soweto project, University of Johannesburg: Are Soweto’s Unemployed a Labour Reserve?


11.5 Class in Literature II

  • 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

  • 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


12.1 Class Dynamics in Communities II

  • 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

  • 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

  • Betsy Leondar-Wright, Sociology, Boston College: 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[2]

Speakers list

References

  1. ↑ [1] How Class Works - 2010 Conference schedule, accessed July 22, 2010
  2. ↑ [2] How Class Works - 2010 Conference schedule, accessed July 22, 2010
  3. ↑ [3] How Class Works - 2010 Conference schedule, accessed July 22, 2010
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