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'''How Class Works - 2010 Conference'''
 
'''How Class Works - 2010 Conference'''
  
8:00pm
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==Opening Party==
0. Opening Party, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Opening Party, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Building, Seventh Floor lobby/lounge
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Building
Music by Anne Feeney, readings by Barbara Jensen,
 
Gerald McCarthy, and Michelle Tokarczyk, Cash
 
Bar
 
Thursday, June 3
 
1:00-2:15pm
 
Registration begins in the Student Activities
 
Center (SAC) Lobby
 
1:45-3:15pm
 
1. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
 
Center
 
1.1 New Media in Labor Studies and
 
Working Class Studies, SAC 303
 
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, SAC 305
 
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. Öztürk, Economics, Ondokuz Mayıs
 
University and Özgün Akduran, Public Finance,
 
Istanbul University: Women’s Labor in Tobacco
 
Producing: Before and After Privatization
 
  
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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>
  
1.3 Pedagogy of Class I, SAC 311
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==Forums==
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: Teaching
 
the Working-Class Experience in America
 
1.4 Country Studies 1, SAC 308
 
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
 
3:30-5:00pm
 
2. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
 
Center
 
2.1 Class Dynamics in Higher Education
 
and the Professions, SAC 311
 
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 Upper
 
Middle-Class Students Attending an Affl uent Public
 
High School
 
Julie Withers, Butte College: Class Act: Negotiating
 
class dynamics at a rural community college
 
  
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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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*[[Joseph B. Atkins]], Journalism, University of Mississippi: Giving Voice to Southern Workers: The Development of “Labor South”
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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
  
2.2 The Working Class after
 
Neoliberalism, SAC 304
 
Colm Breathnach Geography and Sociology,
 
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Mapping the
 
Global Working Class Today
 
Neil Davidson, Geography and Sociology, University
 
of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Theory and 21st
 
Century Workers: Defi nitions, 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, SAC 308
 
Gregory Wood, History, Frostburg State University:
 
Smokes on a Train: Smoking and Class Struggles
 
on 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, SAC 305
 
Bob Fitch, Former Union Organizer, Author:
 
Needed: A Labor Left that refl ects 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
 
  
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'''1.2 Class and Gender'''
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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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*[[Hester Eisenstein]], Sociology, Queens College: Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World
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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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*[[Melda Y. Ozturk]], Economics, Ondokuz Mayıs University and [[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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*[[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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*[[Heather A. Howley]] and [[E.R. Carlin]], University of Akron, Wayne College: Empathy: The Placebo Effect
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*[[Joel Saxe]], Communication, University of Massachusetts-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: Teachingthe Working-Class Experience in America
  
2.5 Country Studies II, SAC 303
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Frido Wenten, Political Science, Free University
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'''1.4 Country Studies 1'''
Berlin: Changing class relations and labour struggles
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*[[Ozgur Narin]], Economics, Ondokuz Mayis University and [[Ozgur Mutlu Ulus]], Acıbadem University: Alpagut Factory Occupation: First Experience of Workers' Self Management in Turkey
in post-1978 China
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*[[Tara Martin]], Sociology, University of New Mexico: Crosscurrents of Memory: Myth, Rank and File Memory, and Britain’s Winter of Discontent
Kurtuluş Cengiz, Sociology, Abant Izzet Baysal
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*[[Hugo Chesshire]], Political Science, Brock University: In Hostile Waters: The 2009 Concessions of the Canadian Autoworkers Union
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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'''2.1 Class Dynamics in Higher Education and the Professions'''
Ugo Palheta, Sociology, Sciences-Po Paris: Class
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*[[Amy E. Stich]], Sociology of Education, SUNY Buffalo: Working-Class Reputation and the Syntax of Rusted Space: A Damaging Discursive Practice within Higher Education
Struggle, Struggling Classes. The Social Stratifi cation
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*[[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
of the “anti-CPE” Movement in France (2006)
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*[[Julie Withers]], Butte College: Class Act: Negotiating class dynamics at a rural community college
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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'''2.2 The Working Class after Neoliberalism'''
7:30-9:30pm
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*[[Colm Breathnach]] Geography and Sociology,University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Mapping the Global Working Class Today
3. Opening Plenary Session, SAC Ballroom B
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*[[Neil Davidson]], Geography and Sociology, Universit of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Theory and 21st Century Workers: Definitions, Boundaries, Interests
Provost Lecture Series, open to the public
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*[[Patricia McCafferty]], Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: From Workshop of the World to Service Sector Central: Glasgow’s East End Today
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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'''2.3 Class Issues in History'''
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*[[Gregory Wood]], History, Frostburg State University: Smokes on a Train: Smoking and Class Struggleson the New York City Subway, 1904-1913
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*[[John Lloyd]], History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona: Crowds, Class and Community: The Pittsburgh ‘Mob’ and the Strike of 1877
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*[[Peter S. McInnis]], History, St. Francis Xavier University: Incident at Reesor Siding: Bushworkers and the Historical Memory of Violent Confrontation
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*[[Vilja Hulden]], History, University of Arizona: The payoffs of class privilege: The National Association of Manufacturers vs. labor in Congress, 1902-1914
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'''2.4 Calling the Labor Movement to Discover the Working Class'''
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*[[Bob Fitch]], Former Union Organizer, Author: Needed: A Labor Left that reflects real democracy and unites workers by reaching across restrictive jurisdictional lines
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*[[Joseph B. Atkins]], Journalism, University of Mississippi: A Call for an Independent, Consciousness - Raising Labor Media
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*[[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
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*[[Steve Early]], Writer, Organizer: The High Price of Health Care for Some: How EFCA Became The First Casualty of ObamaCare
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'''2.5 Country Studies II'''
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*[[Frido Wenten]], Political Science, Free University Berlin: Changing class relations and labour struggles in post-1978 China
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*[[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
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*[[Ugo Palheta]], Sociology, Sciences-Po Paris: Class Struggle, Struggling Classes. The Social Stratifi cation of the “anti-CPE” Movement in France (2006)
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'''3. Opening Plenary Session, Provost Lecture Series'''
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*[[Larry Cohen]], International President, Communications Workers of America: Economic Crisis,Political Paralysis: What's the Working Class to Do?
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'''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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*[[William K. Tabb]], City University of New York
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'''5.1 Immigrant Class Identities'''
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*[[Anilyn Diaz-Hernández]], Communication, UMass Amherst: Morphing into Childhood: Changes, Chances and Choices in the Life of a Middle-Class Man
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*[[David Avishay]], Communication, UMass Amherst: Class Journeys? The Role of Class in the Identity Formation of an Israeli "Good Girl"
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*[[Liliana Herakova]], Communication, UMass Amherst: Journeys of Belonging
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*[[Swati Birla]], Sociology, UMass Amherst: A Question of Privilege
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'''5.2 Class Dynamics in Brazil'''
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*[[Berenice Abreu]], Social History, Universidade Estadual do Ceara: The Ship Sail on: the Politics of Class and Brazil´s Northeast Fishermen’s Movement
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*[[Frederico de Castro Neves]], Labor History, Universidade Federal do Ceara: Working Class Protest and Revolt in Rural Brazil
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*[[William Mello]], Labor Studies, Indiana University: The Legion of Workers: Class Formation and Right Wing Labor Organizations in Northeast Brazil
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'''5.3 Rank and File Research from the National Labor College'''
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*[[Eduardo Rosario]], National Writers Guild: Dismantling The Manufacturing Clause: Another Victim of Deregulation
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*[[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
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*[[John Graham]], United Brotherhood of Carpenters: Health Impact of Emergency Response and Recovery Work at the World Trade Center Following 9-11
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*[[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
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*[[Leah Rambo]], Sheet Metal Workers International Association: Embracing Diversity: The Key to Building Strong Unions
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'''5.4. What Do Working Class Students Need in Higher Education? - a roundtable discussion'''
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*[[Sherry Lee Linkon]], Center for Working-Class 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 Studies
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*[[Nancy Berke]], English, LaGuardia College, City University of New York
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*[[Tim Francisco]], Journalism, Youngstown State University
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'''5.5 Mothering from the Margins'''
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*[[Kinohi Nishikawa]], Literature, Duke University: Sons and Mothers: Broken Family Narratives in the Post-Civil Rights Moment
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*[[Leigh Campoamor]], Cultural Anthropology, Duke University: “Who Are You Calling Exploitative?” Child Laborers, Sacrificial Mothers, and the Uncaring State in Lima, Peru
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*[[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
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'''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: 
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*[[Eric Kaler]], provost
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*[[John Marburger]], Vice-President for Research
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*[[Peter Baigent]],Vice-President for Student Affairs
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*[[Lawrence Martin]],  Graduate School Dean
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*[[Nancy Squires]], College of Arts and Sciences Dean
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*[[William Arens]], Dean of International Academic Programs
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*[[Paul Edelson]], Dean of the School of Professional Development
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*[[Ann Brody]] and the staffs of the Office of Conferences and Special Events, the Department of Student Union and Activities, and the Department of Economics.
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*[[Pedro Caban]], SUNY Vice-Provost for Diversity
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*[[Michele Fazio]]
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*[[Fernando Gapasin]],
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*[[Fred Gardaphe]],
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*[[Pepi Leistyna]],
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*[[Jack Metzgar]],
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*[[Michelle Tokarczyk]],
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*[[Janet Zandy]],
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*[[Michael Zweig]].
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*[[Daniel Wolman]] for data base management, web support, and special logistical organization .
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*[[Michael Zweig]] Conference Coordinator
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'''5.6 The Construction of Class Consciousness'''
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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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*[[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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'''10.3 Class Dynamics in Communities I'''
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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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*[[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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*[[Joseph Varga]], Labor Studies, Indiana University of Bloomington: Geographies of Class in South Central Indiana
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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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'''10.4 Class Confl ict in the Ivory Tower'''
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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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*[[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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*[[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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'''10.5 The Changing Labor Process and Working Class Experience'''
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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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*[[Charley Richardson]], Labor Extension Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell: Working Alone: Isolation and Class Solidarity in the Modern Workplace
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*[[Laura Clawson]], Working America: The Decline of Associationalism and Prospects for Working-Class Mobilization
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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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and Illnesses
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*[[Paul Landsbergis]], Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, State University of New York Downstate School of Public Health, Brooklyn, NY: Changing Nature of Work and Worker Health: Evidence and Labor Union Interventions
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 +
 
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'''10.6 Theories of Class'''
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*[[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
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*[[Ron Scott]], Organizer, Founding Member of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party: Beyond Money: Towards a New Defi nition of Class
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*[[Andor Skotnes]], History, The Sage Colleges: Paper: Rethinking Nicos Poulantzas and the Structural Determination of Class
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 +
 
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'''10.7 Class Tracks in Language'''
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*[[Jacqueline Preston]], English, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Collective Rhetorics: Tropes, Schemes, and Ideographs in Two Rural Communities
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*[[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
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 +
 
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'''11.1 The Working Class in Contemporary U.S. Politics'''
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*[[Carl Davidson]], Author, and Co-chair, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
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*[[Randy Shannon]], Treasurer of Pennsylvania 4th Congressional District Chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
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*[[Renee Y. Carter]], Co-Chair, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
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'''11.2 The Academic Job Market in Working Class Studies – a roundtable discussion'''
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*[[Allison L. Hurst]], Sociology, Furman University
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*[[Cherie Rankin]], English, Heartland Community College
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*[[Christie Launius]], English, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
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*[[Debbie Warnock]], Sociology, University of Washington
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*[[Michele Fazio]], English, University of North Carolina-Pembroke
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*[[Sara Appel]], Literature, Duke University
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*[[Terry Easton]], English, Gainesville State College
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 +
 
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'''11.3 The Arts in Working Class Activity'''
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*[[Erika Schneider]] and [[Jon Huibregtse]], Framingham State College: Art in Federal Buildings: Class struggles for an acceptable past
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*[[Carol Quirke]], American Studies, SUNY Old Westbury: “A United Nations in One Union Shop:” Local 65 Distributive Workers Union and Representing Diversity
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*[[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
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'''11.4 Country Studies IV'''
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*[[Erik Bengtsson]], Economic History, University of Gothenburg: Workers’ Party, Workers’ Politics? Blue-collar workers in the Swedish Social Democratic Party today
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*[[Hugo Ceron-Anaya]], Sociology and Anthropology, Washington College: Golf, Class, and Business in Mexico: A Case Study
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*[[Claire Ceruti]], Classifiying Soweto project, University of Johannesburg: Are Soweto’s Unemployed a Labour Reserve?
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'''11.5 Class in Literature II'''
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*[[Vanessa Hall]], New York City College of Technology: Blue Collar Redux: Carver and the Working Class Renaissance of the 1970s
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*[[Joan Clingan]], Humanities and Sustainability Education, Prescott College: Sustainable Justice: Considering Social and Ecological Justice through Literature
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*[[Linda McCarriston]], Creative Writing & Literary Arts, University of Alaska Anchorage: Tillie’s Generation
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'''11.6 Class and Blackness'''
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*[[Gregory Caldwell]], History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Division of [[Robert Beck]]: A Melancholic Performance of US-Style Patriarchy
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*[[Shanesha Brooks Tatum]], American Culture, University of Michigan: Embodiment and the Politics of Craft: Black Women's Craft Communities
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*[[Tracy Carpenter]], Comparative Studies, Ohio State University: African American Women and the Recovery Folk Movement
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'''12.1 Class Dynamics in Communities II'''
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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
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*[[Nathan D. Delaney]], History, University of Toledo: Community as Class
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*[[Stefan Ramsden]], History, University of Hull: The remaking of working-class community 1945-2000
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'''12.2 Country Studies V'''
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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
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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
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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.
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'''12.3 The Language of Class in Politics'''
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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
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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
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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>
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==Speakers list==
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*[[Berenice Abreu]]
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*[[Funmi Adewumi]]
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*[[Sean Ahern]]
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*[[Umit Akcayo]]
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*[[Jean Alonso]]
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*[[Sara Appel]]
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*[[Joseph B. Atkins]]
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*[[Sarah Attfield]]
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*[[David Avishay]]
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*[[Mustafa Berkay Aydin]]
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*[[Alisa Balestra]]
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*[[John P. Beck]]
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*[[Erik Bengtsson]]
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*[[Nancy Berke]]
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*[[Alpkan Birelma]]
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*[[Carl Bloice]]
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*[[Sudarshana Bordoloi]]
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*[[Barbara Bowen]]
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*[[Michael J. Boyle]]
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*[[Cemil Boyra]]z
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*[[Colm Breathnac]]h
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*[[Amy Bromsen]]
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*[[Elise Bryant]]
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*[[Millie Burns]]
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*[[Jeff A. Cabusao]]
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*[[Gregory Caldwell]]
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*[[Leigh Campoamor]]
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*[[E.R. Carlin]]
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*[[Tracy Carpenter]]
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*[[Renee Carter|Renee Y. Carter]]
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*[[Leo Casey]]
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*[[Kurtulus Cengiz]]
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*[[Hugo Ceron-Anaya]]
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*[[Claire Ceruti]]
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*[[Cagdas Ceyhan]]
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*[[Simon Charleworth]]
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*[[Hugo Chesshire]]
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*[[Kristin Cipollone]]
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*[[Laura Clawson]]
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*[[Joan Clingan]]
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*[[Larry Cohen]]
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*[[Mustafa Kemal Coskun]]
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*[[Esra Dabagci]]
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*[[Ellen Dannin]]
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*[[Carl Davidson]]
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*[[Neil Davidson]]
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*[[Nathan D. Delaney]]
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*[[Anilyn Diaz-Hernandez]]
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*[[Sue Doro]]
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*[[Emily Drabinski]]
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*[[Steve Early]]
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*[[Terry Easton]]
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*[[Hester Eisenstein]]
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*[[Michele Fazio]]
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*[[Anne Feeney]]
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*[[Martin Fishgold]]
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*[[Robert Fitch|Bob Fitch]]
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*[[Bill Fletcher, Jr.]]
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*[[Tim Fowler]]
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*[[Tim Francisco]]
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*[[Michelle B. Gaffey]]
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*[[Ira Grupper]]
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*[[Chynna Haas]]
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*[[Kim Hackett]]
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*[[Vanessa Hall]]
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*[[James Haslam]]
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*[[Penelope Hayes]]
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*[[Liliana Herakova]]
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*[[Heather A. Howley]]
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*[[Jon Huibregtse]]
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*[[Vilja Hulden]]
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*[[Allison L. Hurst]]
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*[[M. Thandabantu Iverson]]
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*[[Kamilah Jarvis]]
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*[[Barbara Jensen]]
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*[[Janice Kelly]]
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*[[Lainie Kitt]]
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*[[Paul Landsbergis]]
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*[[Emily Lardner]]
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*[[Jane LaTour]]
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*[[Christie Launius]]
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*[[Alyssa Lenoff]]
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*[[Betsy Leondar-Wright]]
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*[[Nancy Lessin]]
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*[[Tim Libretti]]
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*[[Sherry Lee Linkon]]
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*[[John Lloyd]]
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*[[Anne Marie Lofaso]]
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*[[Angela MacWhinnie]]
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*[[Maria Maisto]]
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*[[Lou Martin]]
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*[[Tara Martin]]
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*[[Raymond A. Mazurek]]
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*[[Patricia McCafferty]]
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*[[Linda McCarriston]]
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*[[Gerald McCarthy]]
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*[[Steve McClure]]
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*[[Peter S. McInnis]]
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*[[Jack McKay]]
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*[[William Mello]]
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*[[Jack Metzgar]]
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*[[Ruth Meyerowitz]]
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*[[Francine Moccio]]
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*[[Bruno Monteiro]]
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*[[Ed Motamed]]
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*[[Ozgur Narin]]
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*[[Frederico de Castro Neves]]
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*[[Magnus Nilsson]]
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*[[Kinohi Nishikawa]]
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*[[Sharon O’Dair]]
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*[[Melda Y. Ozturk]]
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*[[Ugo Palheta]]
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*[[Kim Palmore]]
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*[[Ajay Panicke]]r
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*[[Laurel Parker]]
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*[[Konstantinos Passas]]
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*[[Jeff Perry]]
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*[[Amy Peterson]]
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*[[Mosa Phadi]]
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*[[James Grey Pope]]
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*[[Joe Potestivo]]
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*[[Carla D. Pratt]]
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*[[Jacqueline Preston]]
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*[[Joao Queiros]]
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*[[Carol Quirke]]
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*[[Leah Rambo]]
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*[[Dianne Ramdeholl]]
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*[[Stefan Ramsden]]
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*[[Cherie Rankin]]
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*[[Charley Richardson]]
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*[[Rene Rojas]]
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*[[Eduardo Rosario]]
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*[[John Russo]]
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*[[Sarah Ryan]]
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*[[Joel Saxe]]
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*[[Erika Schneider]]
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*[[Ron Scott]]
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*[[Ariel Sevilla]]
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*[[Randy Shannon]]
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*[[Todd Shaw]]
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*[[Timothy Sheard]]
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*[[Fran Shor]]
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*[[Scott C. Silber]]
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*[[Hira Singh]]
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*[[Andor Skotnes]]
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*[[Beshon Smith]]
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*[[Sara R. Smith]]
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*[[Mark Solomon]]
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*[[Steve Street]]
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*[[Sharon Szymanski]]
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*[[William K. Tabb]]
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*[[Anthony Tambureno]]
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*[[Shanesha Brooks Tatum]]
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*[[Yvette Taylor]]
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*[[Michelle M. Tokarczyk]]
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*[[Ozgur Mutlu Ulus]]
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*[[David Van Arsdale]]
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*[[Joseph Varga]]
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*[[Karen Veitch]]
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*[[Marquita Walker]]
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*[[Christine J. Walley]]
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*[[Debbie Warnock]]
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*[[Frido Wenten]]
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*[[Ahmed A. White]]
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*[[Mildred Williamson]]
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*[[Betty Wilson]]
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*[[Julie Withers]]
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*[[Gregory Wood]]
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*[[David Wray]]
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*[[Robert M. Zecker]]
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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>
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[[Category:Conferences]]

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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