How Class Works - 2010 Conference
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
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? Refl ections from Hubert
Harrison and Ted Allen, SAC 303
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, SAC 302
Betty Wilson, Curriculum developer for the City
of New York, UAW Local 1981, National Writers
Union, DC37: Mr. Jefferson's Piano and Other
Central Harlem Stories
Jane LaTour, DC37 AFCSME: Sisters in the Brotherhood,
working women organizing for equality in New
York
Sue Doro, National Writers Union SF Bay Chapter;
UALE, Retired IAM, Retired AFGE: Home,
Heart & Hard Hats, Blue Collar Goodbyes
Timothy Sheard, Assistant Director, Infection
Control & Epidemiology, SUNY/Downstate
Hospital, Brooklyn, UAW Local 1981, National
Writers Union New York Chapter Steering Committee:
The Lenny Moss mysteries
6.4 Class Dynamics in Europe, Javits 223
(by videoconference)
Bruno Monteiro, Portugal
Ariel Sevilla, France
Simon Charleworth, United Kingdom
Joao Queiros, Portugal
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6.5 Pedagogy of Class II, SAC 305
Anthony Tambureno, OISE University of Toronto:
Bringing labor history to youth: Refl ections on the
West Virginia Labor History Project
Emily Drabinski, Instruction Librarian, Long
Island University, Brooklyn: Teaching About Class
in the Library
Michelle B. Gaffey, English, Duquesne University:
A Pedagogical Response to, “I’m never shopping at
Wal-Mart again!”
Sharon Szymanski and Dianne Ramdeholl, The
Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies:
Shock Therapy: Class Pedagogy for Electricians
6.6 Studies in Service Work, SAC 311
Çağdaş Ceyhan, Communication Sciences, Anadolu
University and Mustafa Berkay Aydın,
Sociology, Middle East Tecnical University:
Retail Workers' Working Conditions, Opinions of 'Organization'
and Culture : A Case Study From Ankara/
Turkey
Lou Martin, History, Chatham University: Industrial
Workers and the Shift to a Service Economy in
West Virginia, 1950-1990
Marquita Walker, Labor Studies, Indiana University
School of Social Work: Strength through
cultural heritage: Lived experiences of hotel workers
during a union organizing drive
David Van Arsdale, Sociology, SUNY Onondaga
Community College: The Proliferation and Consequences
of Temporary Help Work: A Cross-Border
Comparison
6.7 Screening and Discussion: Pakathi –
Soweto’s “in the Middle” Class, SAC 308
Mosa Phadi, University of Johannesburg
3:45-5:15pm
7. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
Center
7.1 Class in Action: Worker Centers and
Organizing, SAC 303
Angela MacWhinnie, SEIU Organizer
Jack McKay, Director, Food and Medicine
James Haslam, Director, The Vermont Workers'
Center
7.2 Class and Law II, SAC 304
Ellen Dannin, Penn State University Dickinson
School of Law: Not a Limited, Confi ned, or Private
Matter – The Class-Based Defi nition of Who Is an
“Employee” under the National Labor Relations Act
James Grey Pope, Rutgers School of Law--Newark:
Race, Race Consciousness, and Constitutional
Law in the Making of the American Working Class,
1787-1964
7.3 Class Consciousness and Worker
Action, SAC 305
Christine F. Zinni, Filmmaker, SUNY Buffalo
and Ruth Meyerowitz, SUNY Buffalo: Round
The Clock: Buffalo Workers and the Fight For Jobs
With Justice
Claire Ceruti, Classifi ying Soweto project, University
of Johannesburg: Striking against a politically
explosive background: hidden possibilities in the
2005 - 2007 South African strikes
Esra Dabağcı, Sociology, Ankara University and
Mustafa Kemal Coş kun, Sociology, Ankara
University: Class Consciousness as Interpretation and
Changing Act of the Social Life: The Case of Mineworkers
in Turkey
René Rojas, Sociology, New York University:
Bringing the Shop Back In: Politics of Production
and Worker Militancy during the 2008-2009 Bronx
Cookie Strike
page 6 How Class Works—2010
7.4 The Culture of De-industrialization,
SAC 311
Christine J. Walley, Anthropology, MIT: Deindustrializing
Chicago: A Daughter’s Story
David Wray, Social Sciences, University of Northumbria:
Class or Collective Biography? : The
infl uence of cultural remnants in post-industrial, single
industry, communities
Scott C. Silber, Union organizer and community
organizer: Sticks and Stones: Storytelling in the
Traumatization of the Working Class and Recovery as
Resistance
7.5 Country Studies III. SAC 308
Penelope Hayes, Business and Law, Auckland
University of Technology: The New Middle Class
or the End of Class? An Empirical Investigation into
the Changing Composition of New Zealand’s Class
Structure, 1896–2006
Ed Motamed: Labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran
7.6 Dynamics of Class Formation, SAC 306
Shannan Clark, History, Montclair State University:
Contesting the Social Frontiers of Class:
White-Collar Unionism in New York City during the
Mid-1940s
Jean Alonso: In Harm’s Way: Class Traits and Problems
Originating in a Defense Plant
7.7 Class, Race, and Gender in the Building
of a Progressive Majority – a roundtable
discussion, SAC 302
Carl Bloice, The Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism
Ira Grupper, The Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism
Mark Solomon, The Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism
Mildred Williamson, Illinois Department of
Public Health, The Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism
7:00pm
8. Conference Banquet
8.1 Dinner, Student Activities Center Ballroom A
Speaker: Barbara Bowen, President, Professional Staff
Congress - CUNY, AFT 2334
10:00pm
8.2 Party
Music by Anne Feeney and Elise Bryant
Saturday, June 5
Registration reopens 8:00am-2:00pm, SAC
Lobby
8:00am
Continental Breakfast, SAC Ballroom A
8:00-9:00am
Maria Maisto, President, New Faculty
Majority "The Condition of Contingent
Academic Labor", SAC Ballroom A
9:00-10:30am
9. Plenary Session: The Challenge of
Charter Schools, SAC Ballroom A
Leo Casey, Vice-President for High Schools,
United Federation of Teachers, NYC
Kamilah Jarvis, Chicago charter school teacher/
high school English
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10:45am-12:15pm
10. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
Center
10.1 Crashing the Boys’ Club: Women in
the Skilled Trades, SAC 306
Amy Bromsen, Political Science, Wayne State
University: Driven over the Brink at Chrysler: The
Struggle and Death of Linda Gilbert
Amy Peterson, Nontraditional Employment for
Women: NEW: You learn more than just the basics
Laurel Parker, IBEW Local 3, Empire State College:
Women Building Bridges in the Construction
Trades
10.2 Class in Literature I, SAC 304
Alisa Balestra, Miami University: The Many Articulations
of ‘Working-Class’ in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone
Butch Blues
Sherry Lee Linkon, Center for Working-Class
Studies, Youngstown State University: Deindustrialization
Lit: Stories from the Next Generation
Tim Libretti, English, Northeastern Illinois University:
The Reconfi guration of Class Consciousness
through Anti-Colonial Nationalist Politics in the Novels
of Milton Murayama: Theorizing Working-Class
Literary Studies in the Age of Cosmopolitanism
Sarah Attfi eld, University of Technology, Sydney,
Australia: UK Grime and the Expression of Working
Class Culture
10.3 Class Dynamics in Communities I,
SAC 303
Alpkan Birelma, Ataturk Institute for Modern
Turkish History, Bogazici University: In search of
the “working class”: Workers’ subjectivity and agency
in a neighborhood of Istanbul
Ajay Panicker, Sociology, Saint Cloud University
and Sudarshana Bordoloi, Geography, York
University: Class formation and the Local/Global
Dialectic: Explaining Proletarianization in Kerala,
India
Joseph Varga, Labor Studies, Indiana University
of Bloomington: Geographies of Class in South Central
Indiana
Fran Shor, History, Wayne State University: U. S.
Consumers and the Problematics of Solidarity with
Global Sweatshop Workers
10.4 Class Confl ict in the Ivory Tower, SAC
302
Michelle M. Tokarczyk, English, Goucher College:
So You Think You’ll Find Another Tenured Position?:
The Case for Fighting Where You Stand
Steve Street, Buffalo State College: Class under
Glass: The Two Faculty Tiers in Higher Education as
a Microcosm of Class Dynamics
Sharon O’Dair, English, Univeristy of Alabama:
Universal Access, Prestige-Driven Research, and the
Creation of a Class System in the Academic Profession
10.5 The Changing Labor Process and
Working Class Experience, SAC 305
Ümit Akçay, Economics, Ordu University: Young,
Cheap, Flexible and Un-unionized: New Participants
of Working Class, The Call Centre Workers
Charley Richardson, Labor Extension Program,
University of Massachusetts Lowell: Working
Alone: Isolation and Class Solidarity in the Modern
Workplace
Laura Clawson, Working America: The Decline
of Associationalism and Prospects for Working-Class
Mobilization
Nancy Lessin, United Steelworkers' Tony Mazzocchi
Center for Health, Safety and Environmental
Education: Hiding the Injuries of Class: Management’s
Plan for Individualizing Harm, Destroying
Solidarity and Hiding the Toll of Work-related Injuries
and Illnesses
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
page 8 How Class Works—2010
10.6 Theories of Class, SAC 311
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, SAC 308
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: Confl icting Messages: Hip Hop Reality
TV shows Moguls’ Formula For Success, Class, and
Culture
12:45-1:45pm
Annual Meeting of the Working Class
Studies Association, SAC 305
2:00-3:30pm
11. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
Center
11.1 The Working Class in Contemporary
U.S. Politics, SAC 306
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,
SAC 302
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, SAC
303
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, SAC 304
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, Classifi ying Soweto project, University
of Johannesburg: Are Soweto’s Unemployed a
Labour Reserve?
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11.5 Class in Literature II, SAC 311
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, SAC 305
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
3:45-5:15pm
12. Concurrent Sessions, Student Activities
Center
12.1 Class Dynamics in Communities II,
SAC 304
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, SAC 311
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, SAC
308
Betsy Leondar-Wright, Sociology, Boston Col
lege: 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
5:30-6:00pm
Conference summary discussion, SAC Third
Floor Lounge
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Presenter, session number
Berenice Abreu 5.2
Funmi Adewumi 12.2
Sean Ahern 6.2
Ümit Akçay 10.5
Jean Alonso 7.6
Sara Appel 5.5, 11.2
Joseph B. Atkins 1.1, 2.4
Sarah Attfi eld 10.2
David Avishay 5.1
Mustafa Berkay Aydin 6.6
Alisa Balestra 10.2
John P. Beck 5.6
Erik Bengtsson 11.4
Nancy Berke 5.4
Alpkan Birelma 10.3
Swati Birla 5.1
Carl Bloice 7.7
Sudarshana Bordoloi 10.3
Barbara Bowen 8.1
Michael J. Boyle 5.6
Cemil Boyraz 12.2
Colm Breathnach 2.2
Amy Bromsen 10.1
Elise Bryant 8.2
Millie Burns 10.7
Jeff A. Cabusao 5.7
Gregory Caldwell 11.6
Leigh Campoamor 5.5
E.R. Carlin 1.3
Tracy Carpenter 11.6
Renee Y. Carter 11.1
Leo Casey 9
Kurtuluş Cengiz 2.5
Hugo Ceron-Anaya 11.4
Claire Ceruti 7.3, 11.4
Çağdaş Ceyhan 6.6
Simon Charleworth 6.4
Hugo Chesshire 1.4
Kristin Cipollone 2.1
Shannan Clark 7.6
Laura Clawson 10.5
Joan Clingan 11.5
Larry Cohen 3
Mustafa Kemal Coşkun
7.3
Esra Dabağci 7.3
Ellen Dannin 7.2
Carl Davidson 11.1
Neil Davidson 2.2
Nathan D. Delaney 12.1
Anilyn Díaz-Hernández
5.1
Sue Doro 6.3
Emily Drabinski 6.5
Steve Early 2.4
Terry Easton 11.2
Hester Eisenstein 1.2
Michele Fazio 11.2
Anne Feeney 0, 8.2
Martin Fishgold 2.4
Bob Fitch 2.4
Bill Fletcher, Jr. 4, 6.2
Tim Fowler 12.2
Tim Francisco 5.4
Michelle B. Gaffey 6.5
John Graham 5.3
Ira Grupper 7.7
Chynna Haas 5.4
Kim Hackett 10.7
Vanessa Hall 11.5
James Haslam 7.1
Penelope Hayes 7.5
Liliana Herakova 5.1
Heather A. Howley 1.3
Jon Huibregtse 11.3
Vilja Hulden 2.3
Allison L. Hurst 11.2
M. Thandabantu Iverson
1.2
Kamilah Jarvis 9
Barbara Jensen, 0
Janice Kelly 10.7
Lainie Kitt 5.3
Paul Landsbergis 10.5
Emily Lardner 1.3
Jane LaTour 6.3
Christie Launius 11.2
Alyssa Lenoff 1.1
Betsy Leondar-Wright
12.3
Nancy Lessin 10.5
Tim Libretti 10.2
Sherry Lee Linkon 5.4,
10.2
John Lloyd 2.3
Anne Marie Lofaso 6.1
Angela MacWhinnie 7.1
Maria Maisto, Saturday
8 am
Lou Martin 6.6
Tara Martin 1.4
Raymond A. Mazurek 1.3
Patricia McCafferty 2.2
Linda McCarriston 11.5
Gerald McCarthy 0
Steve McClure 12.3
Peter S. McInnis 2.3
Jack McKay 7.1
William Mello 5.2
Jack Metzgar 5.4
Ruth Meyerowitz 7.3, 11.3
Francine Moccio 1.2
Bruno Monteiro 6.4
Ed Motamed 7.5
Ozgur Narin 1.4
Frederico de Castro Neves
5.2
Magnus Nilsson 5.6
Kinohi Nishikawa 5.5
Sharon O’Dair 10.4
Melda Y. Öztürk 1.2
Ugo Palheta 2.5
Kim Palmore 5.7
Ajay Panicker 10.3
Laurel Parker 10.1
Konstantinos Passas 10.6
Jeff Perry 6.2
Amy Peterson 10.1
Mosa Phadi 6.7
James Grey Pope 7.2
Joe Potestivo 5.3
Carla D. Pratt 6.1
Jacqueline Preston 10.7
Joao Queiros 6.4
Carol Quirke 11.3
Leah Rambo 5.3
Dianne Ramdeholl 6.5
Stefan Ramsden 12.1
Cherie Rankin 11.2
Charley Richardson 10.5
René Rojas 7.3
Eduardo Rosario 5.3
John Russo 1.1
Sarah Ryan 1.3
Joel Saxe 1.3
Erika Schneider 11.3
Ron Scott 10.6
Ariel Sevilla 6.4
Randy Shannon 11.1
Todd Shaw 5.7
Timothy Sheard 6.3
Fran Shor 10.3
Scott C. Silber 7.4
Hira Singh 10.6
Andor Skotnes 10.6
Beshon Smith 12.1
Sara R. Smith 5.7
Mark Solomon 7.7
Amy E. Stich 2.1
Steve Street 10.4
Sharon Szymanski 6.5
William K. Tabb 4
Anthony Tambureno 6.5
Shanesha Brooks Tatum
11.6
Yvette Taylor 5.7
Michelle M. Tokarczyk 0,
10.4
Ozgur Mutlu Ulus 1.4
David Van Arsdale 6.6
Joseph Varga 10.3
Karen Veitch 5.6
Marquita Walker 6.6
Christine J. Walley 7.4
Debbie Warnock 11.2
Frido Wenten 2.5
Ahmed A. White 6.1
Mildred Williamson 7.7
Betty Wilson 6.3
Julie Withers 2.1
Gregory Wood 2.3
David Wray 7.4
Robert M. Zecker 12.3
Christine F. Zinni 7.3
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