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Music by [[Anne Feeney]], readings by [[Barbara Jensen]], [[Gerald McCarthy]], and [[Michelle Tokarczyk]]
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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>
  
 
==Forums==
 
==Forums==
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'''1.3 Pedagogy of Class I'''  
 
'''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
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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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'''7.3 Class Consciousness and Worker Action'''
 
'''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
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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
 
*[[Claire Ceruti]], Classifiying Soweto project, University of Johannesburg: Striking against a politically explosive background: hidden possibilities in the 2005 - 2007 South African strikes
 
*[[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
 
*[[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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'''12.1 Class Dynamics in Communities II'''
 
'''12.1 Class Dynamics in Communities II'''
Beshon Smith, The University of Maryland-Baltimore
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*[[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
County: Caution at the Crossroad: The Intersection
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*[[Nathan D. Delaney]], History, University of Toledo: Community as Class
of Class and Culture for Upwardly Mobile,
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*[[Stefan Ramsden]], History, University of Hull: The remaking of working-class community 1945-2000
African American Families and their Neighborhood
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Choices
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Nathan D. Delaney, History, University of Toledo:
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'''12.2 Country Studies V'''
Community as Class
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*[[Cemil Boyraz]], International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University: Working-Class Reactions against Neo-Liberalism: An Analysis of Privatization Process in Turkey after the 1980s
Stefan Ramsden, History, University of Hull: The
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*[[Funmi Adewumi]], Industrial Relations and Economics & Management Sciences, Osun State University: Trade Unions in the Global Economy: The Challenge of Social Movement Unionism
remaking of working-class community 1945-2000
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*[[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.
12.2 Country Studies V, SAC 311
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Cemil Boyraz, International Relations, Istanbul
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Bilgi University: Working-Class Reactions against
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'''12.3 The Language of Class in Politics'''
Neo-Liberalism: An Analysis of Privatization Process
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*[[Betsy Leondar-Wright]], Sociology, Boston College: TALKING OFTEN VS. TALKING LONG Towards a Sociolinguistics of the Class Cultures of Activist Groups
in Turkey after the 1980s
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*[[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
Funmi Adewumi, Industrial Relations and
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*[[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>
Economics & Management Sciences, Osun State
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University: Trade Unions in the Global Economy: The
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==Speakers list==
Challenge of Social Movement Unionism
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*[[Berenice Abreu]]
Tim Fowler, Political Science, Carleton University:
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*[[Funmi Adewumi]]
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up
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*[[Sean Ahern]]
nowhere: Canadian labour and strategic voting.
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*[[Umit Akcayo]]
12.3 The Language of Class in Politics, SAC
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*[[Jean Alonso]]
308
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*[[Sara Appel]]
Betsy Leondar-Wright, Sociology, Boston Col
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*[[Joseph B. Atkins]]
lege: TALKING OFTEN VS. TALKING LONG
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*[[Sarah Attfield]]
Towards a Sociolinguistics of the Class Cultures of
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*[[David Avishay]]
Activist Groups
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*[[Mustafa Berkay Aydin]]
Robert M. Zecker, History, Saint Francis Xavier
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*[[Alisa Balestra]]
University: “Do You Take us for Kaffi rs or Zulus?”
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*[[John P. Beck]]
Race, Labor and Housing Competition as Seen in the
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*[[Erik Bengtsson]]
Slovak Immigrant Press
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*[[Nancy Berke]]
Steve McClure, Geography and Geo-information
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*[[Alpkan Birelma]]
Science, George Mason University: Actionable
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*[[Carl Bloice]]
intelligence: zoning, land use and election outcomes in
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*[[Sudarshana Bordoloi]]
Prince William County Virginia
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*[[Barbara Bowen]]
5:30-6:00pm
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*[[Michael J. Boyle]]
Conference summary discussion, SAC Third
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*[[Cemil Boyra]]z
Floor Lounge
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*[[Colm Breathnac]]h
page 10 How Class Works—2010
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*[[Amy Bromsen]]
Presenter, session number
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*[[Elise Bryant]]
Berenice Abreu 5.2
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*[[Millie Burns]]
Funmi Adewumi 12.2
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*[[Jeff A. Cabusao]]
Sean Ahern 6.2
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*[[Gregory Caldwell]]
Ümit Akçay 10.5
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*[[Leigh Campoamor]]
Jean Alonso 7.6
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*[[E.R. Carlin]]
Sara Appel 5.5, 11.2
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*[[Tracy Carpenter]]
Joseph B. Atkins 1.1, 2.4
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*[[Renee Carter|Renee Y. Carter]]
Sarah Attfi eld 10.2
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*[[Leo Casey]]
David Avishay 5.1
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*[[Kurtulus Cengiz]]
Mustafa Berkay Aydin 6.6
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*[[Hugo Ceron-Anaya]]
Alisa Balestra 10.2
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*[[Claire Ceruti]]
John P. Beck 5.6
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*[[Cagdas Ceyhan]]
Erik Bengtsson 11.4
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*[[Simon Charleworth]]
Nancy Berke 5.4
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*[[Hugo Chesshire]]
Alpkan Birelma 10.3
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*[[Kristin Cipollone]]
Swati Birla 5.1
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*[[Laura Clawson]]
Carl Bloice 7.7
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*[[Joan Clingan]]
Sudarshana Bordoloi 10.3
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*[[Larry Cohen]]
Barbara Bowen 8.1
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*[[Mustafa Kemal Coskun]]
Michael J. Boyle 5.6
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Cemil Boyraz 12.2
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*[[Esra Dabagci]]
Colm Breathnach 2.2
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*[[Ellen Dannin]]
Amy Bromsen 10.1
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*[[Carl Davidson]]
Elise Bryant 8.2
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*[[Neil Davidson]]
Millie Burns 10.7
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*[[Nathan D. Delaney]]
Jeff A. Cabusao 5.7
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*[[Anilyn Diaz-Hernandez]]
Gregory Caldwell 11.6
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Leigh Campoamor 5.5
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*[[Sue Doro]]
E.R. Carlin 1.3
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*[[Emily Drabinski]]
Tracy Carpenter 11.6
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*[[Steve Early]]
Renee Y. Carter 11.1
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*[[Terry Easton]]
Leo Casey 9
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*[[Hester Eisenstein]]
Kurtuluş Cengiz 2.5
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*[[Michele Fazio]]
Hugo Ceron-Anaya 11.4
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*[[Anne Feeney]]
Claire Ceruti 7.3, 11.4
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*[[Martin Fishgold]]
Çağdaş Ceyhan 6.6
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*[[Robert Fitch|Bob Fitch]]
Simon Charleworth 6.4
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*[[Bill Fletcher, Jr.]]
Hugo Chesshire 1.4
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*[[Tim Fowler]]
Kristin Cipollone 2.1
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*[[Tim Francisco]]
Shannan Clark 7.6
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*[[Michelle B. Gaffey]]
Laura Clawson 10.5
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*[[Ira Grupper]]
Joan Clingan 11.5
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*[[Chynna Haas]]
Larry Cohen 3
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*[[Kim Hackett]]
Mustafa Kemal Coşkun
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*[[Vanessa Hall]]
7.3
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*[[James Haslam]]
Esra Dabağci 7.3
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*[[Penelope Hayes]]
Ellen Dannin 7.2
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*[[Liliana Herakova]]
Carl Davidson 11.1
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*[[Heather A. Howley]]
Neil Davidson 2.2
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*[[Jon Huibregtse]]
Nathan D. Delaney 12.1
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*[[Vilja Hulden]]
Anilyn Díaz-Hernández
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*[[Allison L. Hurst]]
5.1
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*[[M. Thandabantu Iverson]]
Sue Doro 6.3
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Emily Drabinski 6.5
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*[[Kamilah Jarvis]]
Steve Early 2.4
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*[[Barbara Jensen]]
Terry Easton 11.2
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*[[Janice Kelly]]
Hester Eisenstein 1.2
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*[[Lainie Kitt]]
Michele Fazio 11.2
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*[[Paul Landsbergis]]
Anne Feeney 0, 8.2
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*[[Emily Lardner]]
Martin Fishgold 2.4
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*[[Jane LaTour]]
Bob Fitch 2.4
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*[[Christie Launius]]
Bill Fletcher, Jr. 4, 6.2
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*[[Alyssa Lenoff]]
Tim Fowler 12.2
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*[[Betsy Leondar-Wright]]
Tim Francisco 5.4
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Michelle B. Gaffey 6.5
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*[[Nancy Lessin]]
John Graham 5.3
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*[[Tim Libretti]]
Ira Grupper 7.7
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*[[Sherry Lee Linkon]]
Chynna Haas 5.4
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*[[John Lloyd]]
Kim Hackett 10.7
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*[[Anne Marie Lofaso]]
Vanessa Hall 11.5
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*[[Angela MacWhinnie]]
James Haslam 7.1
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*[[Maria Maisto]]
Penelope Hayes 7.5
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Liliana Herakova 5.1
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*[[Lou Martin]]
Heather A. Howley 1.3
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*[[Tara Martin]]
Jon Huibregtse 11.3
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*[[Raymond A. Mazurek]]
Vilja Hulden 2.3
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*[[Patricia McCafferty]]
Allison L. Hurst 11.2
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*[[Linda McCarriston]]
M. Thandabantu Iverson
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*[[Gerald McCarthy]]
1.2
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*[[Steve McClure]]
Kamilah Jarvis 9
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*[[Peter S. McInnis]]
Barbara Jensen, 0
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*[[Jack McKay]]
Janice Kelly 10.7
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*[[William Mello]]
Lainie Kitt 5.3
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*[[Jack Metzgar]]
Paul Landsbergis 10.5
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*[[Ruth Meyerowitz]]
Emily Lardner 1.3
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*[[Francine Moccio]]
Jane LaTour 6.3
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*[[Bruno Monteiro]]
Christie Launius 11.2
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*[[Ed Motamed]]
Alyssa Lenoff 1.1
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*[[Ozgur Narin]]
Betsy Leondar-Wright
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*[[Frederico de Castro Neves]]
12.3
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Nancy Lessin 10.5
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*[[Magnus Nilsson]]
Tim Libretti 10.2
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*[[Kinohi Nishikawa]]
Sherry Lee Linkon 5.4,
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*[[Sharon O’Dair]]
10.2
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*[[Melda Y. Ozturk]]
John Lloyd 2.3
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*[[Ugo Palheta]]
Anne Marie Lofaso 6.1
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*[[Kim Palmore]]
Angela MacWhinnie 7.1
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*[[Ajay Panicke]]r
Maria Maisto, Saturday
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*[[Laurel Parker]]
8 am
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*[[Konstantinos Passas]]
Lou Martin 6.6
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*[[Jeff Perry]]
Tara Martin 1.4
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*[[Amy Peterson]]
Raymond A. Mazurek 1.3
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*[[Mosa Phadi]]
Patricia McCafferty 2.2
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*[[James Grey Pope]]
Linda McCarriston 11.5
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*[[Joe Potestivo]]
Gerald McCarthy 0
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*[[Carla D. Pratt]]
Steve McClure 12.3
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*[[Jacqueline Preston]]
Peter S. McInnis 2.3
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*[[Joao Queiros]]
Jack McKay 7.1
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*[[Carol Quirke]]
William Mello 5.2
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*[[Leah Rambo]]
Jack Metzgar 5.4
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*[[Dianne Ramdeholl]]
Ruth Meyerowitz 7.3, 11.3
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*[[Stefan Ramsden]]
Francine Moccio 1.2
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*[[Cherie Rankin]]
Bruno Monteiro 6.4
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*[[Charley Richardson]]
Ed Motamed 7.5
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*[[Rene Rojas]]
Ozgur Narin 1.4
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*[[Eduardo Rosario]]
Frederico de Castro Neves
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*[[John Russo]]
5.2
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*[[Sarah Ryan]]
Magnus Nilsson 5.6
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*[[Joel Saxe]]
Kinohi Nishikawa 5.5
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*[[Erika Schneider]]
Sharon O’Dair 10.4
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*[[Ron Scott]]
Melda Y. Öztürk 1.2
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*[[Ariel Sevilla]]
Ugo Palheta 2.5
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*[[Randy Shannon]]
Kim Palmore 5.7
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*[[Todd Shaw]]
Ajay Panicker 10.3
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*[[Timothy Sheard]]
Laurel Parker 10.1
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*[[Fran Shor]]
Konstantinos Passas 10.6
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*[[Scott C. Silber]]
Jeff Perry 6.2
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*[[Hira Singh]]
Amy Peterson 10.1
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*[[Andor Skotnes]]
Mosa Phadi 6.7
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*[[Beshon Smith]]
James Grey Pope 7.2
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*[[Sara R. Smith]]
Joe Potestivo 5.3
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*[[Mark Solomon]]
Carla D. Pratt 6.1
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*[[Steve Street]]
Jacqueline Preston 10.7
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*[[Sharon Szymanski]]
Joao Queiros 6.4
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*[[William K. Tabb]]
Carol Quirke 11.3
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*[[Anthony Tambureno]]
Leah Rambo 5.3
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*[[Shanesha Brooks Tatum]]
Dianne Ramdeholl 6.5
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Stefan Ramsden 12.1
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*[[Yvette Taylor]]
Cherie Rankin 11.2
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*[[Michelle M. Tokarczyk]]
Charley Richardson 10.5
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René Rojas 7.3
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*[[Ozgur Mutlu Ulus]]
Eduardo Rosario 5.3
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*[[David Van Arsdale]]
John Russo 1.1
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*[[Joseph Varga]]
Sarah Ryan 1.3
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*[[Karen Veitch]]
Joel Saxe 1.3
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*[[Marquita Walker]]
Erika Schneider 11.3
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*[[Christine J. Walley]]
Ron Scott 10.6
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*[[Debbie Warnock]]
Ariel Sevilla 6.4
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*[[Frido Wenten]]
Randy Shannon 11.1
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*[[Ahmed A. White]]
Todd Shaw 5.7
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*[[Mildred Williamson]]
Timothy Sheard 6.3
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*[[Betty Wilson]]
Fran Shor 10.3
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*[[Julie Withers]]
Scott C. Silber 7.4
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*[[Gregory Wood]]
Hira Singh 10.6
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*[[David Wray]]
Andor Skotnes 10.6
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*[[Robert M. Zecker]]
Beshon Smith 12.1
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*[[Christine F. Zinni]]<ref>[http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/HCW2010.5.28forposting.pdf] How Class Works - 2010 Conference schedule, accessed July 22, 2010</ref>
Sara R. Smith 5.7
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Mark Solomon 7.7
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==References==
Amy E. Stich 2.1
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Steve Street 10.4
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[[Category:Conferences]]
Sharon Szymanski 6.5
 
William K. Tabb 4
 
Anthony Tambureno 6.5
 
Shanesha Brooks Tatum
 
11.6
 
Yvette Taylor 5.7
 
Michelle M. Tokarczyk 0,
 
10.4
 
Ozgur Mutlu Ulus 1.4
 
David Van Arsdale 6.6
 
Joseph Varga 10.3
 
Karen Veitch 5.6
 
Marquita Walker 6.6
 
Christine J. Walley 7.4
 
Debbie Warnock 11.2
 
Frido Wenten 2.5
 
Ahmed A. White 6.1
 
Mildred Williamson 7.7
 
Betty Wilson 6.3
 
Julie Withers 2.1
 
Gregory Wood 2.3
 
David Wray 7.4
 
Robert M. Zecker 12.3
 
Christine F. Zinni 7.3
 
Index
 

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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