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+ | Music by [[Anne Feeney]], readings by [[Barbara Jensen]], [[Gerald McCarthy]], and [[Michelle Tokarczyk]] <ref>[http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/HCW2010.5.28forposting.pdf] How Class Works - 2010 Conference schedule, accessed July 22, 2010</ref> | ||
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+ | '''1.1 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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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− | Frido Wenten, Political Science, Free University | + | '''1.4 Country Studies 1''' |
− | Berlin: Changing class relations and labour struggles | + | *[[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 | + | *[[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 | + | *[[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 | + | |
− | Community and Market: A Cross-Section from | + | |
− | an Anatolian City/Kayseri | + | '''2.1 Class Dynamics in Higher Education and the Professions''' |
− | Ugo Palheta, Sociology, Sciences-Po Paris: Class | + | *[[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 | + | *[[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) | + | *[[Julie Withers]], Butte College: Class Act: Negotiating class dynamics at a rural community college |
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− | Center ( | + | '''2.2 The Working Class after Neoliberalism''' |
− | 7: | + | *[[Colm Breathnach]] Geography and Sociology,University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: Mapping the Global Working Class Today |
− | 3. | + | *[[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 | |
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− | + | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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) | ||
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+ | '''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? | ||
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+ | '''4. Plenary Session: Right Wing Populism and the Working Class''' | ||
+ | *[[Bill Fletcher, Jr.]], Executive Editor, blackcommentator.com | ||
+ | *[[William K. Tabb]], City University of New York | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''5.4. What Do Working Class Students Need in Higher Education? - a roundtable discussion''' | ||
+ | *[[Sherry Lee Linkon]], Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University | ||
+ | *[[Chynna Haas]], Working-Class Student Union | ||
+ | *[[Jack Metzgar]], Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies | ||
+ | *[[Nancy Berke]], English, LaGuardia College, City University of New York | ||
+ | *[[Tim Francisco]], Journalism, Youngstown State University | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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: | ||
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+ | *[[Eric Kaler]], provost | ||
+ | *[[John Marburger]], Vice-President for Research | ||
+ | *[[Peter Baigent]],Vice-President for Student Affairs | ||
+ | *[[Lawrence Martin]], Graduate School Dean | ||
+ | *[[Nancy Squires]], College of Arts and Sciences Dean | ||
+ | *[[William Arens]], Dean of International Academic Programs | ||
+ | *[[Paul Edelson]], Dean of the School of Professional Development | ||
+ | *[[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. | ||
+ | *[[Pedro Caban]], SUNY Vice-Provost for Diversity | ||
+ | *[[Michele Fazio]] | ||
+ | *[[Fernando Gapasin]], | ||
+ | *[[Fred Gardaphe]], | ||
+ | *[[Pepi Leistyna]], | ||
+ | *[[Jack Metzgar]], | ||
+ | *[[Michelle Tokarczyk]], | ||
+ | *[[Janet Zandy]], | ||
+ | *[[Michael Zweig]]. | ||
+ | *[[Daniel Wolman]] for data base management, web support, and special logistical organization . | ||
+ | *[[Michael Zweig]] Conference Coordinator | ||
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+ | '''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? | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''6.2 Why Is There No Socialism in America?''' | ||
+ | *[[Hubert Harrison]] and [[Ted Allen]] - Reflections | ||
+ | *[[Jeff Perry]], Author, [[Hubert Harrison]]: The Voice of | ||
+ | Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, and literary executor for Ted Allen | ||
+ | *[[Sean Ahern]], New York City Teacher and Independent Scholar | ||
+ | *[[Bill Fletcher, Jr]]., Executive Editor, blackcommentator.com | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''6.4 Class Dynamics in Europe''', Javits 223 (by videoconference) | ||
+ | *[[Bruno Monteiro]], Portugal | ||
+ | *[[Ariel Sevilla]], France | ||
+ | *[[Simon Charleworth]], United Kingdom | ||
+ | *[[Joao Queiros]], Portugal | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''6.6 Studies in Service Work''' | ||
+ | *[[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 | ||
+ | *[[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 | ||
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+ | '''6.7 Screening and Discussion: Pakathi – Soweto’s “in the Middle” Class''' | ||
+ | *[[Mosa Phadi]], University of Johannesburg | ||
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+ | '''7.1 Class in Action: Worker Centers and Organizing''' | ||
+ | *[[Angela MacWhinnie]], SEIU Organizer | ||
+ | *[[Jack McKay]], Director, Food and Medicine | ||
+ | *[[James Haslam]], Director, The Vermont Workers' Center | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''8.1 Dinner''' | ||
+ | *[[Barbara Bowen]], speaker, President, Professional Staff Congress - CUNY | ||
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+ | '''8.2 Party''' | ||
+ | *[[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''' | ||
+ | *[[Leo Casey]], Vice-President for High Schools, United Federation of Teachers, NYC | ||
+ | *[[Kamilah Jarvis]], Chicago charter school teacher/ high school English | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''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 | ||
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+ | '''11.2 The Academic Job Market in Working Class Studies – a roundtable discussion''' | ||
+ | *[[Allison L. Hurst]], Sociology, Furman University | ||
+ | *[[Cherie Rankin]], English, Heartland Community College | ||
+ | *[[Christie Launius]], English, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh | ||
+ | *[[Debbie Warnock]], Sociology, University of Washington | ||
+ | *[[Michele Fazio]], English, University of North Carolina-Pembroke | ||
+ | *[[Sara Appel]], Literature, Duke University | ||
+ | *[[Terry Easton]], English, Gainesville State College | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | '''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<ref>[http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/HCW2010.5.28forposting.pdf] How Class Works - 2010 Conference schedule, accessed July 22, 2010</ref> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==Speakers list== | ||
+ | *[[Berenice Abreu]] | ||
+ | *[[Funmi Adewumi]] | ||
+ | *[[Sean Ahern]] | ||
+ | *[[Umit Akcayo]] | ||
+ | *[[Jean Alonso]] | ||
+ | *[[Sara Appel]] | ||
+ | *[[Joseph B. Atkins]] | ||
+ | *[[Sarah Attfield]] | ||
+ | *[[David Avishay]] | ||
+ | *[[Mustafa Berkay Aydin]] | ||
+ | *[[Alisa Balestra]] | ||
+ | *[[John P. Beck]] | ||
+ | *[[Erik Bengtsson]] | ||
+ | *[[Nancy Berke]] | ||
+ | *[[Alpkan Birelma]] | ||
+ | *[[Carl Bloice]] | ||
+ | *[[Sudarshana Bordoloi]] | ||
+ | *[[Barbara Bowen]] | ||
+ | *[[Michael J. Boyle]] | ||
+ | *[[Cemil Boyra]]z | ||
+ | *[[Colm Breathnac]]h | ||
+ | *[[Amy Bromsen]] | ||
+ | *[[Elise Bryant]] | ||
+ | *[[Millie Burns]] | ||
+ | *[[Jeff A. Cabusao]] | ||
+ | *[[Gregory Caldwell]] | ||
+ | *[[Leigh Campoamor]] | ||
+ | *[[E.R. Carlin]] | ||
+ | *[[Tracy Carpenter]] | ||
+ | *[[Renee Carter|Renee Y. Carter]] | ||
+ | *[[Leo Casey]] | ||
+ | *[[Kurtulus Cengiz]] | ||
+ | *[[Hugo Ceron-Anaya]] | ||
+ | *[[Claire Ceruti]] | ||
+ | *[[Cagdas Ceyhan]] | ||
+ | *[[Simon Charleworth]] | ||
+ | *[[Hugo Chesshire]] | ||
+ | *[[Kristin Cipollone]] | ||
+ | *[[Laura Clawson]] | ||
+ | *[[Joan Clingan]] | ||
+ | *[[Larry Cohen]] | ||
+ | *[[Mustafa Kemal Coskun]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[[Esra Dabagci]] | ||
+ | *[[Ellen Dannin]] | ||
+ | *[[Carl Davidson]] | ||
+ | *[[Neil Davidson]] | ||
+ | *[[Nathan D. Delaney]] | ||
+ | *[[Anilyn Diaz-Hernandez]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[[Sue Doro]] | ||
+ | *[[Emily Drabinski]] | ||
+ | *[[Steve Early]] | ||
+ | *[[Terry Easton]] | ||
+ | *[[Hester Eisenstein]] | ||
+ | *[[Michele Fazio]] | ||
+ | *[[Anne Feeney]] | ||
+ | *[[Martin Fishgold]] | ||
+ | *[[Robert Fitch|Bob Fitch]] | ||
+ | *[[Bill Fletcher, Jr.]] | ||
+ | *[[Tim Fowler]] | ||
+ | *[[Tim Francisco]] | ||
+ | *[[Michelle B. Gaffey]] | ||
+ | *[[Ira Grupper]] | ||
+ | *[[Chynna Haas]] | ||
+ | *[[Kim Hackett]] | ||
+ | *[[Vanessa Hall]] | ||
+ | *[[James Haslam]] | ||
+ | *[[Penelope Hayes]] | ||
+ | *[[Liliana Herakova]] | ||
+ | *[[Heather A. Howley]] | ||
+ | *[[Jon Huibregtse]] | ||
+ | *[[Vilja Hulden]] | ||
+ | *[[Allison L. Hurst]] | ||
+ | *[[M. Thandabantu Iverson]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[[Kamilah Jarvis]] | ||
+ | *[[Barbara Jensen]] | ||
+ | *[[Janice Kelly]] | ||
+ | *[[Lainie Kitt]] | ||
+ | *[[Paul Landsbergis]] | ||
+ | *[[Emily Lardner]] | ||
+ | *[[Jane LaTour]] | ||
+ | *[[Christie Launius]] | ||
+ | *[[Alyssa Lenoff]] | ||
+ | *[[Betsy Leondar-Wright]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[[Nancy Lessin]] | ||
+ | *[[Tim Libretti]] | ||
+ | *[[Sherry Lee Linkon]] | ||
+ | *[[John Lloyd]] | ||
+ | *[[Anne Marie Lofaso]] | ||
+ | *[[Angela MacWhinnie]] | ||
+ | *[[Maria Maisto]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[[Lou Martin]] | ||
+ | *[[Tara Martin]] | ||
+ | *[[Raymond A. Mazurek]] | ||
+ | *[[Patricia McCafferty]] | ||
+ | *[[Linda McCarriston]] | ||
+ | *[[Gerald McCarthy]] | ||
+ | *[[Steve McClure]] | ||
+ | *[[Peter S. McInnis]] | ||
+ | *[[Jack McKay]] | ||
+ | *[[William Mello]] | ||
+ | *[[Jack Metzgar]] | ||
+ | *[[Ruth Meyerowitz]] | ||
+ | *[[Francine Moccio]] | ||
+ | *[[Bruno Monteiro]] | ||
+ | *[[Ed Motamed]] | ||
+ | *[[Ozgur Narin]] | ||
+ | *[[Frederico de Castro Neves]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[[Magnus Nilsson]] | ||
+ | *[[Kinohi Nishikawa]] | ||
+ | *[[Sharon O’Dair]] | ||
+ | *[[Melda Y. Ozturk]] | ||
+ | *[[Ugo Palheta]] | ||
+ | *[[Kim Palmore]] | ||
+ | *[[Ajay Panicke]]r | ||
+ | *[[Laurel Parker]] | ||
+ | *[[Konstantinos Passas]] | ||
+ | *[[Jeff Perry]] | ||
+ | *[[Amy Peterson]] | ||
+ | *[[Mosa Phadi]] | ||
+ | *[[James Grey Pope]] | ||
+ | *[[Joe Potestivo]] | ||
+ | *[[Carla D. Pratt]] | ||
+ | *[[Jacqueline Preston]] | ||
+ | *[[Joao Queiros]] | ||
+ | *[[Carol Quirke]] | ||
+ | *[[Leah Rambo]] | ||
+ | *[[Dianne Ramdeholl]] | ||
+ | *[[Stefan Ramsden]] | ||
+ | *[[Cherie Rankin]] | ||
+ | *[[Charley Richardson]] | ||
+ | *[[Rene Rojas]] | ||
+ | *[[Eduardo Rosario]] | ||
+ | *[[John Russo]] | ||
+ | *[[Sarah Ryan]] | ||
+ | *[[Joel Saxe]] | ||
+ | *[[Erika Schneider]] | ||
+ | *[[Ron Scott]] | ||
+ | *[[Ariel Sevilla]] | ||
+ | *[[Randy Shannon]] | ||
+ | *[[Todd Shaw]] | ||
+ | *[[Timothy Sheard]] | ||
+ | *[[Fran Shor]] | ||
+ | *[[Scott C. Silber]] | ||
+ | *[[Hira Singh]] | ||
+ | *[[Andor Skotnes]] | ||
+ | *[[Beshon Smith]] | ||
+ | *[[Sara R. Smith]] | ||
+ | *[[Mark Solomon]] | ||
+ | *[[Steve Street]] | ||
+ | *[[Sharon Szymanski]] | ||
+ | *[[William K. Tabb]] | ||
+ | *[[Anthony Tambureno]] | ||
+ | *[[Shanesha Brooks Tatum]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[[Yvette Taylor]] | ||
+ | *[[Michelle M. Tokarczyk]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | *[[Ozgur Mutlu Ulus]] | ||
+ | *[[David Van Arsdale]] | ||
+ | *[[Joseph Varga]] | ||
+ | *[[Karen Veitch]] | ||
+ | *[[Marquita Walker]] | ||
+ | *[[Christine J. Walley]] | ||
+ | *[[Debbie Warnock]] | ||
+ | *[[Frido Wenten]] | ||
+ | *[[Ahmed A. White]] | ||
+ | *[[Mildred Williamson]] | ||
+ | *[[Betty Wilson]] | ||
+ | *[[Julie Withers]] | ||
+ | *[[Gregory Wood]] | ||
+ | *[[David Wray]] | ||
+ | *[[Robert M. Zecker]] | ||
+ | *[[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> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==References== | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[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
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor, blackcommentator.com
- William K. Tabb, City University of New York
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
- Sherry Lee Linkon, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University
- Chynna Haas, Working-Class Student Union
- Jack Metzgar, Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies
- Nancy Berke, English, LaGuardia College, City University of New York
- Tim Francisco, Journalism, Youngstown State University
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:
- Eric Kaler, provost
- John Marburger, Vice-President for Research
- Peter Baigent,Vice-President for Student Affairs
- Lawrence Martin, Graduate School Dean
- Nancy Squires, College of Arts and Sciences Dean
- William Arens, Dean of International Academic Programs
- Paul Edelson, Dean of the School of Professional Development
- 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.
- Pedro Caban, SUNY Vice-Provost for Diversity
- Michele Fazio
- Fernando Gapasin,
- Fred Gardaphe,
- Pepi Leistyna,
- Jack Metzgar,
- Michelle Tokarczyk,
- Janet Zandy,
- Michael Zweig.
- Daniel Wolman for data base management, web support, and special logistical organization .
- Michael Zweig Conference Coordinator
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?
- Hubert Harrison and Ted Allen - Reflections
- Jeff Perry, Author, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of
Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, and literary executor for Ted Allen
- Sean Ahern, New York City Teacher and Independent Scholar
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor, blackcommentator.com
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)
- Bruno Monteiro, Portugal
- Ariel Sevilla, France
- Simon Charleworth, United Kingdom
- Joao Queiros, Portugal
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
- Mosa Phadi, University of Johannesburg
7.1 Class in Action: Worker Centers and Organizing
- Angela MacWhinnie, SEIU Organizer
- Jack McKay, Director, Food and Medicine
- James Haslam, Director, The Vermont Workers' Center
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
- Anne Feeney and Elise Bryant, Music
- 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
- Allison L. Hurst, Sociology, Furman University
- Cherie Rankin, English, Heartland Community College
- Christie Launius, English, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
- Debbie Warnock, Sociology, University of Washington
- Michele Fazio, English, University of North Carolina-Pembroke
- Sara Appel, Literature, Duke University
- Terry Easton, English, Gainesville State College
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
- Berenice Abreu
- Funmi Adewumi
- Sean Ahern
- Umit Akcayo
- Jean Alonso
- Sara Appel
- Joseph B. Atkins
- Sarah Attfield
- David Avishay
- Mustafa Berkay Aydin
- Alisa Balestra
- John P. Beck
- Erik Bengtsson
- Nancy Berke
- Alpkan Birelma
- Carl Bloice
- Sudarshana Bordoloi
- Barbara Bowen
- Michael J. Boyle
- Cemil Boyraz
- Colm Breathnach
- Amy Bromsen
- Elise Bryant
- Millie Burns
- Jeff A. Cabusao
- Gregory Caldwell
- Leigh Campoamor
- E.R. Carlin
- Tracy Carpenter
- Renee Y. Carter
- Leo Casey
- Kurtulus Cengiz
- Hugo Ceron-Anaya
- Claire Ceruti
- Cagdas Ceyhan
- Simon Charleworth
- Hugo Chesshire
- Kristin Cipollone
- Laura Clawson
- Joan Clingan
- Larry Cohen
- Mustafa Kemal Coskun
- Sue Doro
- Emily Drabinski
- Steve Early
- Terry Easton
- Hester Eisenstein
- Michele Fazio
- Anne Feeney
- Martin Fishgold
- Bob Fitch
- Bill Fletcher, Jr.
- Tim Fowler
- Tim Francisco
- Michelle B. Gaffey
- Ira Grupper
- Chynna Haas
- Kim Hackett
- Vanessa Hall
- James Haslam
- Penelope Hayes
- Liliana Herakova
- Heather A. Howley
- Jon Huibregtse
- Vilja Hulden
- Allison L. Hurst
- M. Thandabantu Iverson
- Kamilah Jarvis
- Barbara Jensen
- Janice Kelly
- Lainie Kitt
- Paul Landsbergis
- Emily Lardner
- Jane LaTour
- Christie Launius
- Alyssa Lenoff
- Betsy Leondar-Wright
- Nancy Lessin
- Tim Libretti
- Sherry Lee Linkon
- John Lloyd
- Anne Marie Lofaso
- Angela MacWhinnie
- Maria Maisto
- Lou Martin
- Tara Martin
- Raymond A. Mazurek
- Patricia McCafferty
- Linda McCarriston
- Gerald McCarthy
- Steve McClure
- Peter S. McInnis
- Jack McKay
- William Mello
- Jack Metzgar
- Ruth Meyerowitz
- Francine Moccio
- Bruno Monteiro
- Ed Motamed
- Ozgur Narin
- Frederico de Castro Neves
- Magnus Nilsson
- Kinohi Nishikawa
- Sharon O’Dair
- Melda Y. Ozturk
- Ugo Palheta
- Kim Palmore
- Ajay Panicker
- Laurel Parker
- Konstantinos Passas
- Jeff Perry
- Amy Peterson
- Mosa Phadi
- James Grey Pope
- Joe Potestivo
- Carla D. Pratt
- Jacqueline Preston
- Joao Queiros
- Carol Quirke
- Leah Rambo
- Dianne Ramdeholl
- Stefan Ramsden
- Cherie Rankin
- Charley Richardson
- Rene Rojas
- Eduardo Rosario
- John Russo
- Sarah Ryan
- Joel Saxe
- Erika Schneider
- Ron Scott
- Ariel Sevilla
- Randy Shannon
- Todd Shaw
- Timothy Sheard
- Fran Shor
- Scott C. Silber
- Hira Singh
- Andor Skotnes
- Beshon Smith
- Sara R. Smith
- Mark Solomon
- Steve Street
- Sharon Szymanski
- William K. Tabb
- Anthony Tambureno
- Shanesha Brooks Tatum
- Ozgur Mutlu Ulus
- David Van Arsdale
- Joseph Varga
- Karen Veitch
- Marquita Walker
- Christine J. Walley
- Debbie Warnock
- Frido Wenten
- Ahmed A. White
- Mildred Williamson
- Betty Wilson
- Julie Withers
- Gregory Wood
- David Wray
- Robert M. Zecker
- Christine F. Zinni[3]