How Class Works - 2010 Conference
How Class Works - 2010 Conference
8:00pm 0. Opening Party, Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, Seventh Floor lobby/lounge 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
1.3 Pedagogy of Class I, SAC 311
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
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
2.5 Country Studies II, SAC 303
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)
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Registration reopens in the Student Activities
Center (SAC) Lobby
7:30-9:30pm
3. Opening Plenary Session, SAC Ballroom B
Provost Lecture Series, open to the public
Larry Cohen, International President, Communications
Workers of America: Economic Crisis,
Political Paralysis: What's the Working Class to Do?