How Class Works - 2002 Conference

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0.0 Opening plenary session “September 11 and its Aftermath Through the Lens of Class”

  • Leo Panitch York University (Toronto) – Political Science Provost Lecture Series


1.0 The Mosaic of Class, Race, and Gender


1.1 Class, Race, and Repression in South Carolina


1.2 Class and Public Policy

“ Public Policy Is Class Policy: The Case of the Postal Anthrax Attacks”

“ Follow the Money: Dispensing Charity in the Wake of Tragedy”

“The State Made Visible: The Formation of the Pennsylvania Department of State Police, 1905 – 1906”


1.3 Class and Gender

“White Women and Class in the Matrixes of Oppression”

“Poor Women, You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Welfare Cheque: The Internationalizing Project of Welfare Reform”

  • Ellen Rosen, Brandeis University – Women’s Studies Research Center

“Social Class and Marriage”

SUNY Old Westbury – American Studies


1.4 Images of Labor

“Using Images to Teach Working-Class History”

“From ‘The Steel City’ to ‘A Nice Place to Do Time’: Images of Youngstown after Deindustrialization”

  • Kim Wilson, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, - Labor Extension

“Making Labor History Murals in the Community” Jim Cassidy, Chair, Stony Brook - Art


1.5 Pedagogy of Class

“Globalization and Its Critics the First Time Around: Twain, Casement, Conrad, and Euro-American Imperialism, Late 19th – Early 20th Century”

“ Class Work: Site of Working-Class Activism or Site of Embourgeoisement?”

“Class Restructuring in Contemporary Ukraine and Its Effect on Education”


1.6 Working-Class Media Projects

“The Workers Independent News Service: Breaking the Media Blockade”

“Them and Us: An Organizing Model for Labor Communications”


2.0 Class and Community

Mark Aronoff, chair, Stony Brook – Linguistics and Deputy Provost


2.1 Class and Gender

“ Women Talk about How Labor Education Has Influenced Their Union Activism: Implications for Labor Education

  • Steve Meyer, University of Wisconsin at Parkside – History

“ Neckties, Red Slacks, and the Bloody Riot: Gender and Power on the Automotive Shop Floor during World War II”

“ A Local Strike Becomes a National Issue: Women Sardine Canners in Brittany, 1924” Mary Jo Bona, Chair, Stony Brook – Women’s Studies


2.2 Pedagogy of Class

“ Global Inequalities and Pedagogical Challenges”

“ The Transformative Impact of Class Talk for College Students”


2.3 Class, Race, and the American Dream

“ Categories and Constraints: Emergent Latino Subjects and the American Dream”

  • John Manley, Stanford University– Political Science (emeritus)

“American Liberalism and the Democratic Dream: Transcending the American Dream”

  • Ronald Mendel, University College Northampton (UK) – American Studies

“Dreamin’ in Class: The American Dream Considered from the Perspective of Class”

“Protecting the Neighborhood Drugstore: Class, Race, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Lower Manhattan”


2.4 Class and Public Policy

“ Class and Institutional Response to Homelessness”

“ The Housing Shortage in New York City: Why It Pays Not to Build”

  • Peter Marcuse, Columbia University – Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

“ Class in Space: Does Globalization Make a Difference?”


2.5 Seeing through Workers’ Eyes: The Unseen America Project


2.6 Class and the Economy

“Class and Armed Robbery”

“Class and the Changing Distributions of Income and Wealth”

“Financial Markets: The Class Angle”


2.7 Film - The Uprising of ’34

  • George Stoney, Filmmaker. New York University – Tisch School of the Arts
  • Vera Rony, Executive producer; founding director, Center for Labor Management Studies, Stony Brook
  • Lou Deutsch, Host, Stony Brook – Hispanic Language and Literature


2.8 Poetry Reading


Playback Theater (NYC)


3.0 Class and Public Policy


3.1 Class and Religion Peter Laarman, Senior Minister, Judson Memorial Church – NYC Cathlin Baker and Paul Chapman, Co-directors, The Employment Project, Judson Memorial Church - NYC “ Religion and Class Invisibility” Fred Rose, Springfield, Massachusetts “ Building a Multi-class, Multi-racial Labor-Religion Coalition – Lessons from the Pioneer Valley Project” Chair: Linda Pfeiffer, Stony Brook – Political Science


3.2 Class and the Labor Process

“ Post-Fordism and Subjectivity: The Case of the Saturn Automobile Corporation”

  • Magdalena Raczynska – Rutgers University – School of Management and Labor Relations, graduate program

“ Blurred Authority or Blurred Identity? The Role of Collective Identity in the Transformation of New Employment Relations”

“ Technology and Power on the Shop Floor”

  • Tim Strangleman, University of Nottingham (UK) – Sociology and Social Policy

“ Class and the End of Work” Chris Sellers, Chair, Stony Brook - History


3.3 Revisioning Families: Welfare Moms and Media Representation


3.4 Class and Consumption

  • Andrew Arnold, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – History

“ Louis D. Brandeis, Mother Jones, and the Loopholes in Laissez Faire”

“ Hours of Labor: The Eight-hour Day, Leisure, and the Consumer Citizen in Gilded Age America”

“ Trashy or Classy? Trailer Life in the 1930s”

  • Charis Ng, SUNY Stony Brook – Sociology, graduate program

“ Casino Gambling: Age and Class”


3.5 Class and Race

“ Race and Class in U.S. History”

“ They Never Called Themselves White: Racial and Ethnic Categorizations by New York City Unions after World War II”

“ Class Structure of Post World War II Chicago”


3.6 Pedagogy of Class

“Teaching the Industrial Revolution: An Exercise in Mid-Nineteenth Century Living”

“Students Using Sociolinguistics in the Adult ESL Classroom”

  • Jonathan Scott, CUNY, Borough of Manhattan Community College – English

“Democratic Affinities: A Class-struggle Approach to Multiculturalism”

  • Fred Gardaphe, Chair,Stony Brook – European Languages and Literature


3.7 Film - People Like Us: Social Class in America (excerpts)


“Middle Class? Working Class? What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter”


4.1 Organizing the U.S. Working Class in the Global Setting

“ Service Labor and Globalization Theory: Visibility Problems”

“ Organizing Immigrant Workers in New York City”

  • Jeffrey Keefe, Rutgers University – Labor Studies and Employment Relations

“ A Shift in Power Tactics from Strike to Political Pressure: The Case of CWA”

“Community Labor Alliances: A New Paradigm for Organizing – The Campaign to Organize Greengrocery Workers in New York City”

  • John Schmidt, Chair, Stony Brook (West) chapter chair, United University Professions (Local 2190 AFT – NYSUT, AFL-CIO)


4.2 The Capitalist Class

“ Reintegrating Class Analysis into Globalization: The Formation of Mexico’s Internationalist Elite and the Fate of Mexican Unions”

“ Demographics of the Capitalist Class”

“ Davos and More: A Global Ruling Class (in formation)”


4.3 Class and Youth

“Young Workers, Economic Inequality, and Collective Action”

“Newsboy Funerals: Towards an Emotional History of Working-class Youth”

“The Organizational Philosophy of Street Gangs on Long Island”


4.4 Class and Health

  • Oliver Fein, MD, Cornell University Medical School – Clinical Medicine and Clinical Public Health, and
  • Martha Livingston, SUNY College at Old Westbury – Health and Society

“Social Class, the Economic Determinants of Health, and the Health Inequalities Debate”


4.5 Class and Education

“Beyond Parent Involvement: An Organizing Paradigm”

“Policy Charade: Training for Discipline in the Low-wage Labor Market”

“Promises to Keep: Higher Education and Working-Class Students”


4.6 Pedagogy of Class - Teaching Labor and Working-Class History: a discussion


4.7 Film

Golden Lands, Working Hands (excerpts)

Class Counts


4.8 Watching the Media through the Lens of Class


5.0 Class in a Global Economy


5.1 Issues in Class Mobility

“ Class Lines, Class Power, and Class Consciousness within Higher Education: The Case of the New Majority Contingent Faculty”

“ Towards a Personal Ethnography of a Large Law Firm”

“ On the Self-maintaining Properties of the Class Structure: How the Middle Classes Reproduce Their Privileges and Power Across Generations”

  • Mary Kosut, New School University – Sociology, graduate program

“The Class Ceiling: Reflections on Class and the Academy from a Blue-collar Standpoint”


5.2 Issues in Class Alliances

“ Crossing Boundaries: Progressive Era Working-class Reformers in a Middle-class World”

“How Temperance Didn’t Work: Terence V. Powderly’s Lonely Crusade, 1869-1893”

“How Working- and Middle-class Cultures Shape Politics: Building Coalitions Across the Class Divide”

“Working at Cross-class Alliances: The Labor Reform Movement in Post-Civil War Boston”

  • Gary Mar, Chair, Stony Brook - Philosophy


5.3 Class and Race

“African-American Class Struggles During the Civil Rights/Black Power Movements”

  • Jeff Lustig, California State University at Sacramento – Government

“Class Resumed: The Tangled Knot of Race and Class and What It Means for How Class Works in America”

  • Rachel Meyer, University of Michigan – Sociology, graduate program

“Strikes and Sit-ins: Class Struggle and the Making of Interracial Unionism”

“Black Nationalism and the Class Functions of Race in American Politics”


5.4 Pedagogy of Class

  • David Van Arsdale and students, Tompkins Cortland Community College (NY) – Sociology

“The Sociology of Work: Community College Students Study Their Class and Labor Backgrounds, with Implications for the Future”


5.5 Class and Class Identity

  • George Davis, Pennsylvania State University – Political Science

“ (Re)Producing Bourgeois Subjects: Foucault, Sexuality, and the Politics of Class Identity”

“Class and the American Consensus: Predictors of Working-Class Identity, 1972 – 2000”

  • Kathryn Hegarty, Deakin University (Melbourne) – School of Literary and Communications Studies, graduate program

“The Classing of Ourselves: Mapping Working Class-ness in Identity through Fiction”

  • Gregory Mantsios, CUNY Queens College – Director, Queens College Labor Resource Center

“Class in America: Myths and Realities”


5.6 Film -A Day’s Work: A Day’s Pay


6.0 Class, Power, and Social Structure


6.1 Class beyond the U.S.

“ Reproductive Decisions of Mongolian Women: Class and Public Policy”

“ The Nature of the Middle Class – Comparative Study of China and the U.S.A.”

  • Peter Ranis, CUNY Graduate Center – Political Science

“ Rebellion and Class: Argentine Society Confronts the Neo-Liberal Model”

  • Yingfeng Wu, SUNY at Stony Brook – Sociology, graduate program

“ Market Reform and the Changing Life Chances of the Working Class in China”


6.2 Recent Strike Experiences

“ CWA and the Verizon Strike”

“ The 1996 California Drywallers’ Strike”

  • Peter Olney, UC Berkeley – Institute for Labor and Employment

“ Resurrecting the Strike as Labor’s Primary Weapon”

“ Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles”

“ The Teamsters and UPS”


6.3 Issues of Class Mobility

  • David Byrne, University of Durham (UK) – Sociology and Social Policy

“ A Middle Class Created by Social-Democracy: Middle-class People from Working-Class Backgrounds in Post-Industrial Industrial Britain”

  • Barbara Jensen, University of Minnesota – Center for Labor and Working Class Studies

“ Across the Great Divide: Cultural and Psychological Dynamics from the Working Class to the Middle Class” Sandra J. Jones, Brandeis University “ Pass the Mustard: Contesting Class Relations in a Mixed-class Marriage” Chair: Sarah Hall Sternglanz, Stony Brook – Women’s Studies

6.4 Class and the Politics of Reform 303 Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University – School of Industrial and Labor Relations “ The New Deal That Never Happened: Full Employment and the Politics of Class in the 1970s” Donna Harrison, York University, Toronto – Sociology, graduate program “Double Speak: Canadian State ‘Restructuring’ and the Demise of the West Coast Commercial Salmon Fleet” Wallace Katz, Dowling College - History and Humanities “Class Discourse and the End of Reform” Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music – General Education “The Environment as a Class Issue” Chair: Rachel Kreier, Stony Brook – Economics, graduate program

6.5 Pedagogy of Class - Interrelations of Class, Gender, and Race in Educational Sites: Historical, Ethnographic, and Narrative Analyses 304 Marta Albert, SUNY at Albany – Reading “Transformative Literate Practice in Working Women’s Lives” John Calagione, CUNY – Center for Worker Education “Locating the Unspeakable Term” Jim Collins, SUNY at Albany - Anthropology “The Reading Wars in situ: Lived Hegemonies of Class, Race, and Gender” Mike Hill, SUNY at Albany – English “Diversity in the Multiversity” Chair: Jim Collins

6.6 Film – Stolen Childhoods: Child Labor in the Global Economy 308 Robin Romano, Filmmaker, Romano Productions, NYC Host: Soiliou Namoro, Stony Brook – Economics, graduate program

7:30 Plenary Session Auditorium 7.0 Class, Race, and the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa Zwelinzima Vavi General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

Sunday, June 9 9:30 – 11:00

8.1 Continuing to Build Working Class Studies311 A discussion among those interested Chair: Michael Zweig, Stony Brook – Economics 

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