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Working People Organizing, Past and Present

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The Labor and Working-Class History Associationproudly presents

June 6-8, 2013 25 BroadwayNew York City

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Rights, Solidarity, JusticeWorking People Organizing, Past and Present

The Labor and Working-Class History Association National Conference

June 6-8, 2013

New York City

Meeting in a year in which surging corporate power has threatened both unions and democracy as we know it, the 2013 LAWCHA conference in New York City focuses on how varied groups of working people have built the solidarity needed to challenge their employers, each other, their communities, and the state to seek justice and improve their lives. Historically and today women, immigrants and people of color have often been at the forefront of these struggles. Many have seen the revitalization of their organizations—unions, cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and political movements—as critical to their struggles for equality and democracy in and beyond the workplace. In the present moment, faced with obstacles to organizing that evoke earlier centuries, workers and their allies are creating innovative organizational forms and strategies in the U.S. and around the world.

For updated information and corrections, see our conference website:

lawcha.org/annualconference

Cover photo: Garment worker, Sau Kuen Wong, at work at her sewing machine. For more information, see page 13.

Program Contents

Venue Navigation (Maps and Travel) 5

Credits 10

Schedule of Events 12

Events Calendar 12

Receptions 13

Table of Sessions 14

Conference Events 15

Index of Participants 51

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Welcome to the 2013 LAWCHA National Conference

The officers and board of the Labor and Working-Class History Association are delighted to welcome you to an exciting array of panels, roundtables, workshops, film screenings and plenary sessions that examine the history and current crises faced by working people in the U.S. and transnationally. It is our hope and expectation that the presentations, and the discussions they generate, will lead to new, creative thinking about working peoples’ history and its relevance to rebuilding ties of solidarity and a vital movement capable of claiming a future of dignity and equal rights for all who labor.

This conference would not have been possible without tremendous effort and creativity on the part of the program committee, the support of the co-sponsors, and many others (listed on this program) who have helped along the way. LAWCHA is inspired by their dedication and grateful for their support.

President Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa

Vice President Nancy MacLean, Duke University

Nation Secretary Cecelia Bucki, Fairfield University

Treasurer Thomas Klug, Marygrove College

Executive Assistant Ryan Poe, Duke University

Immediate Past President Kimberley Phillips, Brooklyn College – CUNY

Board Members since 2010Francisco Barbosa, University of

Colorado, BoulderEileen Boris, University of

California, Santa BarbaraBrian Kelly, Queen’s University

BelfastClarence Lang, University of

KansasPriscilla Murolo, Sarah

Lawrence College

Board Members since 2011William P. Jones, University of

WisconsinJennifer Klein, Yale

Jana Lipman, TulaneMonica Perales, University of

HoustonHeather Thompson, Temple

Board Members since 2012Bob Bussel, University of OregonElizabeth Escobedo, University

of DenverDorothy Fujita-Rony, University

of California-IrvineTera Hunter, Princeton

UniversityJoseph A. McCartin, Georgetown

University

Ex-OfficioTom Alter, Graduate Student

Committee Chair, University of Illinois, Chicago

Leon Fink, Editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, University of Illinois, Chicago

Rosemary Feurer, editor, LAWCHA Newletter, Northern Illinois University

Immanuel Ness, LAWCHA Conference, Co-Chair, Brooklyn College

LAWCHA Officers & Board Members

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Book & Literature ExhibitsBook and literature exhibits are located in the Exhibition Hall Atrium, on the 8th floor of 25 Broadway. The atrium will be open all day, every day of the conference, June 6-8, from 8:30am until 4:00pm. Exceptions include Thursday, during which exhibits open after 1:00pm. Conference goers can browse the latest selections of some of the world’s best publishers, buy books from local labor-oriented book sellers, and sample the selections of literature from one of our many activist exhibits. They include, but are not limited to:

• University of Illinois Press

• Pacific Northwest Labor History Association

• Duke University Press

• The Rick Smith Show

• The journal Labor/Le Travaille

• New York University Press

• The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

• Haymarket Books

• National Writers Union (UAW)

• National Labor College

• PM Press

Exhibition Hall Atrium, 8th Floor, 25 Broadway

Co-Sponsors

• Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education, CUNY

• Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development

• City College of New York, Center for Worker Education, CUNY

• Consortium for Worker Education (Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO)

• Cooper Union Office of Continuing Education & Public Programs

• Haymarket Books

• The Murphy Institute, School of Professional Studies CUNY

• National Labor College

• New York University Department of History

• SUNY Empire State College, Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies

• Worker Institute, Cornell University ILR School

• Workforce Development Institute

Thursday, June 6 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Friday, June 7 8:30am - 4:00pm

Saturday, June 8 8:30am - 4:00pm

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Credits

Program Committee

Chair Kim Phillips

Brooklyn College

Co-Chair Immanuel Ness Brooklyn College

Joey Fink UNC Chapel Hill

Erik Gellman Roosevelt University

Laurie Green University of Texas, Austin

Jim Gregory University of Washington

Clarence Lang University of Kansas

Christopher Michael Graduate Center, CUNY

Priscilla Murolo Sarah Lawrence College

Ryan Poe Duke University

Jacob Remes SUNY Empire State College

Shelton Stromquist University of Iowa

Daniel Walkowitz New York University

Special ThanksTom Alter Univsersity of Illinois, Chicago

Anthony Arnove Haymarket Books

Betsy Aron

Susan R. Breitzer Campbell University, Fort Bragg Campus

Gary Cappy Grass Roots Press (Raleigh, NC)

Darly Corniel Consortium for Worker Education

Duke University Press DukeUPress.edu

Jonathon M. Free Duke University

Aaron Goings Saint Martin’s University

Sunil Gupta BMCC/CUNY

Cindy Hahamovitch William & Mary

Laura Hapke New York College of Technology

Donna Haverty-Stacke Hunter College, CUNY

Robert Hernandez Center for Worker Education, CCNY/CUNY

Amanda B. Hughett Duke University

Clarence Lang Kansas University

Stephen Leberstein CUNY, PSC-CUNY

Jana K. Lipman Tulane

David Ludden Chair, New York University History Department

Rebecca Lurie Consortium for Worker Education

Gregory Mantsios Murphy Institute

Mary McIntyre BMCC

Juan Carlos Mercado Center for Worker Education, CCNY/CUNY

Athena Mennis UNITE-HERE Local 6

Michael Merrill Empire State College, SUNY

Asif Qureshi Graduate Center for Worker Education, Brooklyn College/CUNY

Jacob Remes Empire State College

Kathryn M. Silva Andrews University

Randi Storch SUNY Cortland

Janet K. Weaver University of Iowa

Naomi R. Williams University of Wisconsin-Madison

David Wilson Weekly News Update of the Americas

Ninoshka Woods Center for Worker Education, CCNY/CUNY

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Credits

OtherLAWCHA and the Rights, Solidarity, & Justice Programming Committee extend a special thanks to our conference advertisers: CUNY, Center for Worker Education · CUNY, The Murphy Institute · Duke University Press · Empire State College · Fernwood Publishing · Grito Productions · I.W.W. Hungarian Literature Fund · Labour/Le Travaille · Andrew Levison, The White Working Class Today · Monthly Review Press · The Murphy Institute · New York University Press · University of Illinois Press · Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. All advertisements are paid.

Cover photo: Garment worker, Sau Kuen Wong, at work at her sewing machine. Asian workers, mostly women, constitute a major part of the needle trades work force, many of them in shops located in New York City’s Chinatown. Photograph from the International

Ladies Garment Workers Union Archives, photographer Bob Gumpertz. Generously provided for use in our conference by Kathryn M. Dowgiewicz.

Typefaces: Our program and website uses a diverse array of typefaces, all of which are available for free in some form on the internet. We use this space to thank the authors. U.S. 101 by Tom Oetken; Champagne & Limousines by Lauren Thompson, Nymfont.com; Gentium Book Basic by Victor Gaultney; Trebuchet MS, by Vincent Connare. And on our conference website, we use the following typefaces, courtesy of Google Web Fonts, and icon fonts: Voltaire by Yvonne Schüttler; Oswald by Vernon Adams; Custom Icon Font by Icomoon.

Program designed and produced by Ryan M. Poe Printed by Brooklyn College Printworks

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The best possible society, from the perspective of labor studies, is one in which everyone who wants to work can, and everyone who does work is paid enough to live a good life as a respected member of the community. Learning how to ensure these desires, which are well expressed by the traditional labor movement slogan, “a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work,” is the guiding purpose of a labor studies degree.

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Schedule of Events

Events Calendar

Wednesday, June 56:30pm Preconference Film Screening: The Condition of the Working Class

Thursday, June 610:15am - 12:00pm Opening Session

1:30pm - 3:15pm Session 1


5:15pm - 7:00pm Opening Reception and Union Workers’ Art Exhibit

8:00pm Opening Plenary: The Assault on Labor and the Public Sector: Strategies for Resistance in the Post-Election Environment Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, NYU

Friday, June 78:30am - 10:15am Session 3

10:30am - 12:15am Session 4

10:30am - 1:30am LAWCHA Board Meeting



5:15pm - 6:30pm Reception in Honor of the David Montgomery Book Prize

6:30pm Film Screenings: With a Stroke of the Chaveta & Shift Change

Saturday, June 88:00am - 10:00am Editorial Committee Meeting, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas



12:15pm - 2:00pm LAWCHA Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon


4:30pm - 6:30pm Closing Plenary: Looking Forward: New Directions and Strategies for Labor The Great Hall at Cooper Union

Sunday, June 910:30am - 12:00pm Tour: Museum of the City of New York: Exhibit on Activist New York

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Schedule of Events Schedule of Events

Receptions and Special EventsThursday, June 6

5:30pm – 7:00pm Opening Conference Reception Auditorium, GCWE, 7th Floor, 25 Broadway Opening comments by Juan Carlos Mercado, City College of New York, Center for Worker Education Hurricane Sandy Workers’ Exhibit (Unseen America) Wine and light refreshments Conference participants and attendees welcome

8:00pm – 10:00pm Opening Plenary Eisner-Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center, NYU, Washington Square South (directions, p. 22) Public invited (no admission fee)

10:30am – 1:30pm LAWCHA Board of Directors luncheon meeting Conference room, 7th floor, 25 Broadway LAWCHA officers, board members, and exofficio members

5:30 pm – 6:30pm Reception Honoring David Montgomery and the University of Illinois Press Series, “The Working Class in American History” Auditorium, 7th floor, 25 Broadway Cohosted by University of Illinois Press, LAWCHA, and Brooklyn College Remarks: 6:00 pm; wine and light refreshment All participants and attendees welcome

8:00am – 10:00am Editorial Board meeting, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas Conference room, 7th floor, 25 Broadway Members of the editorial board

12:15 pm – 2:00pm LAWCHA Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon Auditorium, 7th floor, 25 Broadway Presentations: Distinguished Service to Labor History award, Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize, Philip Taft Book Prize. President and Treasurer’s reports, general discussion. Members and friends of LAWCHA welcome to attend; Luncheon by prior reservation

4:30pm – 6:30pm Closing Plenary Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 E. 7th Street Public invited (no admission fee)

Friday, June 7

Saturday, June 8

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Table of Sessions

Schedule of Events

Preconference Film Screening: The Condition of the Working Class Wednesday, June 5, 6:30pm

Opening Session Thursday, June 6, 10:15am - 12:00pm

0.1 Worker Control and Community Councils in Latin America0.2 Hurricane Sandy Stories: A Workers’ Perspective0.3 Organizing Workers along the Food Chain

Session 1 Thursday, June 6, 1:30 - 3:15pm

1.1 Work and Domination1.2 The Untold Story of the UAW-AFL: How Workers Created a

Viable Union Against the Odds1.3 Precarious Workers in the Arts and Entertainment Industry1.4 Class on the Periphery: Work and Workers in Colonial

Contexts1.5 The Fight for Social Health: A Working-Class Perspective1.6 Politics, Unions, and Class Identity: Changing Opinions in

the American Heartland1.7 Racism and Reaction1.8 Liberal Reform and State Repression in the Urban North1.9 The “Lost Worlds” of Ethnic Radicalism in a Transnational

Perspective1.10 Union Organizing: Tactics and Strategy in the

Contemporary Era1.11 Many Pasts, Many Publics: Labor History in NYC


2.1 Labor, Human Rights and the Media: the ILO Transit Workers Decision

2.2 Fighting for Work: The Closure of a Factory in Southern France

2.3 “Opportunities for Defiance”: Embracing Guerilla History and Moving Beyond Scott Walker’s Wisconsin

2.4 The Renaissance of Proletarian Literature2.5 Toxicity, Exposure, and Blue-Green Alliances in the 1970s

and 1980s2.6 STRIKE!2.7 Traded Futures, Traded Pasts: 20th-Century U.S. Trade

Policy and the Working Class2.8 The Politics of Union Democracy2.9 Karl Marx, Trade Unionist and Revolutionary2.10 Organizing Contingent Labor: Lessons from the Past and

Struggles of the Future

Opening Plenary: The Assault on Labor and the Public Sector: Strategies for Resistance in the Post-Election Environment Thursday, June 6, 8:00pm Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, NYU

Session 3 Friday, June 7, 8:30 - 10:15am

3.1 Excluded Workers: Fighting Precarity3.2 Race, Class, and Rights: Worker Education Programs,

1918-19453.3 Working-Class Resistance to the Carceral State3.4 How AIDS Changed Everything3.5 Labor in Rural Communities: Class, Race, and Gender in

Company Towns3.6 Remaking International Labor Solidarity: Exploring models

of Labor internationalism in the US and Canada Today3.7 Managing Men, Constructing Masculinity, and Reckoning

with Violence in the Fordist Workplace3.8 Campus Labor and the Corporate University: A Roundtable

Discussion3.9 The Challenge of Engaged Scholarship

Session 4 Friday, June 7, 10:30am - 12:15pm

4.1 Maritime History Panel4.2 From Collective to Individual Rights: Lawyers Representing

Workers in a Changing Political Economy4.3 Workers’ Resistance in Spaces of American Empire: Labor

Struggles in the U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century

4.4 Excluded and Precarious Workers in the U.S.4.5 The Golden Age of Proletarian Literature4.6 New Directions in Anarchist Historiography: Roundtable

Discussion of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks by Timothy Messer-Kruse

4.7 The “Public” Image: Political Activism and Shifting Definitions of Citizenship in the Twentieth Century

4.8 Domestic Workers and Workers’ Control in New York City4.9 Faculty Responses to University Corporatization: The

Potential for Unionization and Collective Action

Session 5 Friday, June 7, 1:30 - 3:15pm

5.1 Paterson Silk Worker Militancy and the Implications of 100 Years of Labor Radicalism

5.2 Beyond the Shop Floor: Communities on the Move5.3 Gaining Pride at Work: Queer Union Experiences5.4 Author Meets Critic: Barbara Garson, Down the Up

Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession5.5 Australia and the USA: Comparative and Transnational

Perspectives5.6 Unmaking the New Deal: Labor, Class Politics, and the Rise

of the Postwar Urban Order5.7 Equal Pay at 505.8 In the Belly of the Beast: Organizing Scholars and Activists

in North Carolina5.9 The Need for Cooperative Education


6.1 Big Ideas: Re-imagining Labor History6.2 Rights and Opportunities: Workers, Employers, and the

Politics of Ideas6.3 100 Years in the Making: Rethinking and Remembering

the 1913 IWW’s Portland Cannery Strike, 1913-1914 Michigan Copper Country Strike, and Italian Hall Tragedy

6.4 Following the Women: Working Women, the Labor Movement, and Economic Justice

6.5 Occupy Kensington: Community Support for Golden Farm Grocery Workers

6.6 Intimacy, Invisibility, and Class Conflict in Service Workplaces across the Twentieth Century

6.7 Domestic Workers’ Organizing in the Americas: the Struggle for Justice beyond Borders

6.8 Corruption, Organized Crime and the Labor Movement in the Mid-Twentieth Century U.S.

6.9 The Many Battles of Blair Mountain6.10 Progressive Intellectuals and Labor’s Internal

Controversies: Lessons of LAWCHA Member Solidarity and Engagement

6.11 Sex Work and the State: Regulation, Resistance, and Labor in the Americas

Film Screening: With a Stroke of the Chaveta, Shift Change Friday, June 7, 6:30pm

Session 7 Saturday, June 8, 8:30 - 10:15am

7.1 From Sweatshop Floor to the Retail Store: Organizing Along the Global Supply Chain: Warehouse Workers, the Wal-Mart Strike Wave, and New Ways to Build Worker Power and Challenge the World’s Largest Private-Sector Employer

7.2 Working-Class Tenant Struggles in New York City7.3 Labor History in Secondary Social Studies: Pushing Back

the Corporatized Curriculum, A Workshop and Discussion7.4 Global Women’s Work7.5 Towards a New Caribbean Labor Front: Lessons of the Past

and Future Prospects

7.6 Thinking Critically About Community in the Organization of Women

7.7 Sisterhoods: Solidarity in Working-Class Women’s Networks7.8 U.S. Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State7.9 Historical Perspectives on Health and Safety7.10 Neoliberalism, Labor and Militarization in Central

America: Honduras7.11 Labor, Working Families, and the Grassroots Fight for

Public Education

Session 8 Saturday, June 8, 10:30am - 12:15pm

8.1 Working-Class Education and the Attack on Labor Education Centers

8.2 Workers’ Rights8.3 Mobilizing Transnational Solidarity8.4 Putting Labor History in the Public Schools: A Legislative

Approach8.5 Memory in Service of Activism: The Triangle Fire

Centennial and the Clara Lemlich Awards8.6 Organizing Domestic Workers in New York, London, and

Los Angeles8.7 A New Front for Labor: Unionized Worker Cooperatives8.8 Detroit: I Do Mind Dying8.9 Forging Working-Class Identities through Workers’

Newspapers8.10 “The Teamsters’ War on Poverty”: Labor’s Version of Civil

Rights, Social Rights, and Community Activism8.11 Organizing Carwash Workers in NYC8.12 Contingent Academic Labor: Organizing the New Faculty

Majority8.13 The Erosion of Labor Law and Worker Insurgency against

Capital’s Offensive

Session 9 Saturday, June 8, 2:15 - 4:00pm

9.1 The Chicago Teachers Union Strike: Social Movement Unionism and the Defense of Public Education

9.2 Feminist Labor Organizing in the 1970s9.3 “Let’s Get to Work”: Roundtable on Community, Labor,

and City Victories in New Haven9.4 Comparative Labor History in the 20th Century: States,

Unions, Struggles9.5 Mother Jones Three Ways : A Workshop for Teachers9.6 Labor and the Arts9.7 Union Organizing in the Twentieth Century9.8 The “New” Movements: “We won’t pay for your crisis - we

are your crisis”9.9 The Working-Class Presence: Does History Matter to

Workers When Workers Matter to History?9.10 Reclaiming Labor’s Lost Legacy: The March on Washington

for Jobs and Freedom9.11 Building a Living Wage Movement in New York City, 2005

to 2012

Closing Plenary: Looking Forward: New Directions and Strategies for Labor Saturday, June 8, 4:30 - 6:30pm The Great Hall at Cooper Union

Tour: Museum of the City of New York: Exhibit on Activist New York Sunday, June 9, 10:30am - 12:00pm

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Schedule of Events

Wednesday, June 5, 6:30pm

Preconference Film Screening:

The Condition of the Working Class (2012)

Opening Session Thursday, June 6, 10:15am - 12:00pm

0.1 Worker Control and Community

Councils in Latin America

Location: CWE Room 7-52

Chair, Comment Laura Kaplan CUNY Graduate Center

Gregory Wilpert Venezuelanalysis

David Barkin Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco

Brendan Martin The Working World/La Base

Peter Ranis CUNY Graduate Center

0.2 Hurricane Sandy Stories: A Workers’ Perspective


Chair, Comment Ed Murphy Workforce Development Institute

Esther Cohen Unseen America

Ellen Redmond IBEW

John Samuelson Transit Workers Union Local 100

John Duffy Utility Workers Union of America

Workers will be exhibiting their Hurrican Sandy photography in an exhibit entitled Unseen America, at the LAWCHA Conference Opening Reception, Thursday, June 6, 5:30pm-7:00pm.

Schedule of Events

Opening Session, Thursday, June 6, 10:15am - 12:00pm

Location: CWE Auditorium

Screener Dan La Botz New Politics

Filmmaker Michael Wayne Inside Film

Filmmaker Deirdre O'Neill Inside Film

This film is inspired by Friedrich Engels’ book written in 1844, The Condition of the Working Class in England. How much has really changed since then?

In 2012 a group of working-class people from Manchester and Salford come together to create a theatrical show from scratch based on their own experiences and Engels’ book. They have eight weeks before their first performance. The Condition of the Working Class follows them from the first rehearsal to the first night performance and situates their struggle to get the show on stage in the context of the daily struggles of ordinary people facing economic crisis and austerity politics. The people who came together to do the show turned from a group of strangers, many of whom had never acted before, into The Ragged Collective, in little more than two months.

This film, full of political passion and anger, is a wonderful testament to the creativity, determination and camaraderie of working people that blows the media stereotypes of the working class out of the water.

www.ConditionOfTheWorkingClass.info

82 minutes

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Schedule of Events


1.1 Work and Domination


Stanley Aronowitz CUNY Graduate Center

Joan Greenbaum CUNY Graduate Center

Michael J. Thompson William Paterson University

Gregory Zucker CUNY Graduate Center

1.2 The Untold Story of the UAW-AFL: How Workers Created a Viable Union

Against the Odds

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor Conference Room TBA

Kenneth Germanson Wisconsin Labor History Society

John Revitte Michigan State University

0.3 Organizing Workers along the

Food Chain

Location: GCWE 7-10

Daisy Chung Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York

Michael Velarde Brandworkers, Industrial Workers of the World

Adam Obemauer United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500

Diana Robinson Food Chain Workers Alliance

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Schedule of Events

1.4 Class on the Periphery:

Work and Workers in Colonial Contexts


Chair, Comment Evan M. Daniel Queens College, CUNY

Neoliberal Conservation and Worker-Peasant Autono-mism in Madagascar Genese Marie Sodikoff Rutgers University

Transnational Anarchism in the Extended Caribbean: Cuba, Florida, Panama, and Puerto Rico in the Early Twentieth Century Kirwin Shaffer Penn State University, Berks College

Provincializing the Lower East Side: Rethinking the Jew-ish Labor Movement as an Atlantic Formation Ben Gidley ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford

The Wage Bill of Whiteness: State Employee Unions and the Cost of the Colonial State in Indochina Paul Sager New York University

1.5 The Fight for Social Health:

A Working-Class Perspective


Susan Rosenthal Physician, Activist, Author

Gregg Shotwell Retired GM Worker, Activist, and Author

David Pratt NYCOSH Long Island

1.6 Politics, Unions, and Class Identity: Changing Opinions in the

American Heartland


Chair, Comment Joseph E. Slater University of Toledo College of Law

Forged in the Fire of Community: The 1974 Hortonville, Wisconsin Teachers' Strike and the Rise of Modern Con-servatism Adam Mertz University of Illinois at Chicago

"Should Teachers be Allowed to Strike?" The Unlikely Role of the Cook County College Teachers Union in Re-making Illinois Public Employee Relations Susan Roth Breitzer Campbell University, Fort Bragg Campus

Class Identities and Working-Class Conservatism: A Com-munity Study of Unions, Class, and Politics in Waterloo, Iowa in 1968 Jason Whisler University of Iowa

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1.3 Precarious Workers in the Arts and

Entertainment Industry


Chair Kathlene McDonald City College of New York, Center for Worker Education

Lois Gray ILR School, Cornell University

John Amman IATSE Local 600

Phillip Denniston Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Maria Figueroa Worker Institute at Cornell University

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1.8 Liberal Reform and State Repression

in the Urban North


Chair, Comment Mark Lause University of Cincinnati

Comment Rebecca Hill Kennesaw State University

Organized Employers, Urban Reformers, and the Politics of Law and Order in Progressive Era Cleveland Chad E. Pearson Collin College

The Illusion of Reform: Carter Harrison, the Work-ing Class, and the Development of the Chicago Police Department Sam Mitrani College of DuPage

“Working with the police, you can fight gang crime”: Fred Rice, Jr., Chicago Police Torture, and the failures of progressive city government in the 1980s Toussaint Losier University of Chicago

1.10 Union Organizing: Tactics and

Strategy in the Contemporary Era


Chair, Comment Nancy MacLean Duke University

This is What a Picket Line Looks Like:” Strike Support and the Toronto Porter Airlines Fueller Struggle Jordan House York University

The Long History of Casino Capitalism and the Struggle to Organize Service Workers in the Gaming Industry Jocelyn Wills Brooklyn College

The De-Democratization of Workplace Governance: The Crisis of the Right to Strike Chris Rhomberg Fordham University

1.11 Many Pasts, Many Publics:

Labor History in NYC

Location: GCWE 7-10

Chair Pennee Bender American Social History Project

Rachel Bernstein LaborArts

Sarah Henry Museum of the City of New York

Steve Levine LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, La Guardia Community College, CUNY

Annie Polland The Tenement Museum

Donna Thompson Ray American Social History Project

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)

1.7 Racism and Reaction


Chair, Comment Erik Gellman Roosevelt University

White, American, Non-Union: Making Sense of Missouri’s Notorious Strikebreaking Miners Jarod Roll University of Mississippi

From the Cooperative Commonwealth to the Invisible Empire: The Farm-Labor Bloc and the Creation of the White Primary in Texas, 1919-1923 Thomas Alter University of Illinois at Chicago

Aspects of Re-proletarianization: The South Boston Bus-ing Crisis Evan Sarmiento University of Massachusetts, Boston

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1.9 Transnational Perspectives on

Worker Radicalism


The “Lost Worlds” of Ethnic Radicalism in a Transnational Perspective Kostis Karpozilos Columbia Global Center, Europe Marcella Benivenni Hostos Community College, CUNY

Class Heterogeneity and Class Unity: The Communist Party of Canada and the Unemployed Movement in Montreal's Great Depression (1930-1935) Benoit Marsan University of Sherbrooke


2.2 Fighting for Work: The Closure of a

Factory in Southern France


Chair, Comment Chris Rhomberg Fordham University

Gendered Solidarity, Gendered Divisions in Workers Mobilisation Alexandra Oeser Université Paris X

Catholics in Struggle, Catholics in Trouble? Audrey Rouger Université Aix en Provence

The Connect Workers and the Media Olivier Baisnée Institut for Political Science in Toulouse

Transforming Profane Resources into Politics Eric Darras Institut for Political Science in Toulouse

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Opening Reception and Union Workers’ Art Exhibit following Session 2. For more information, see page 13.


2.1 Labor, Human Rights and the Media:

the ILO Transit Workers Decision


Chair Frank Deale CUNY Law School

Dean Hubbard National Lawyers Guild

Jeanne Mirer International Commission for Labor Rights

Dominick Tuminar Brooklyn College/CUNY

Nick Unger Avondale Shipyard Research Project

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2.4 The Renaissance of

Proletarian Literature


Chair, Comment Tim Sheard National Writers Union/UAW

Post-Fordist Proletarianism Joseph Entin Brooklyn College, CUNY

The "Savage Slot" of Proletarian Writing Larry Hanley San Francisco State University

Kindred Voices: The Workers Writing Project Marshall Goldberg University of Massachusetts Labor Education Program

Labor Writes Sharon Syzmanski SUNY Empire State College

2.5 Toxicity, Exposure, and Blue-Green

Alliances in the 1970s and 1980s


Chair, Comment Christopher Sellers Stony Brook University

Herbicide Exposure and the Creation of Working-Class Consciousness in Countercultural Reforestation Coop-eratives, 1970-1985 Erik Loomis University of Rhode Island

Occupational Health, Neighborhood Toxicity, and Envi-ronmental Justice: The Case of Love Canal Jennifer Thomson Harvard University

"We're all going to be suffering from the same thing": Labor, Environmental Politics and the Detroit Incinera-tor, 1986-1991 Josiah Rector Wayne State University

2.8 The Politics of Union Democracy


Chair, Comment Tera Hunter Princeton University

Organizing the US South MichaelGoldfield Wayne State University

How to Build Rank-and-File Labor Organization and Establish Union Accountability Bill Henning CUNY, Center for Worker Education

The Making and Reception of When Labor Votes: The UAW’s First Poll and the Limits of Social Scientific Au-thority Matt Mettler Towson University

Live tweeting our conference?

#LAWCHA2013Session 2, Thursday, June 6, 3:30pm - 5:15pm

2.3 “Opportunities for Defiance”: Embracing Guerrilla History and Moving

Beyond Scott Walker's Wisconsin


Chair, Comment Beth Robinson University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Dawson Barrett University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Jacob Glicklich University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Joe Walzer University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

John Terry University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Ro

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2.6 STRIKE!


Chair, Comment Brian Kelly Queens University, Belfast

Cultivating an Iron Discipline: Authority and Resistance in the Vítkovice General Strike of 1906 John Robertson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From Illegal Strike to Mass Movement in Canada, 1917-1919: The Historical Place of Workers' Power Mikhail Bjorge Queens University at Kingston

Erin's Hope: Revolutionary Unionism and the Soviet Movement in the Irish Troubles, 1913-23 Martin Comack Independent Scholar

2.9 Karl Marx, Trade Unionist and

Revolutionary


Chair, Comment Michael Hirsch New Politics

Dan La Botz New Politics

KateD.Griffiths-Dingani CUNY Graduate Center

Charles Post BMCC, City University of New York

Tim Schermerhorn Transit Workers Union Local 100

2.10 Organizing Contingent Labor: Lessons from the Past and Struggles of the

Future

Location: GCWE 7-10

Chair Daniel Katz AFL-CIO National Labor College

Ileen A. DeVault ILR School, Cornell University

Jeff Grabelsky ILR School, Cornell University

Dorothy Sue Cobble Rutgers University

Saket Soni National Guest Workers Alliance, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice

2.7 Traded Futures, Traded Pasts: 20th-Century U.S. Trade Policy

and the Working Class


Chair, Comment Judith Stein CUNY Graduate Center

The Cannon Mills Case: Out of the Southern Frying Pan, into the Global Fire (1974-1985) Lane Windham University of Maryland

Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the Trade Liberalization Protest of 1938 James Benton Georgetown University

Going Beyond Protection: Making Workers Matter in Sierra Club Trade Policy, 1973-1994 Paul Gibson University of Maryland

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All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

Harvey Milk (1930-1978)

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Opening Plenary Thursday, June 6, 8:00pm

The Assault on Labor and the Public Sector:

Strategies for Resistance in the Post-Election Environment

Location: Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, New York University

Chair, Opening Remarks AliceKessler-Harris R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History, Columbia University Author, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

Frances Fox Piven Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science, City University of New York, Graduate Center Author, Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America

Richard Wolff Professor, University of Massachusetts and New School University Author, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism Partner, democracyatwork.info

Bill Fletcher, Jr. Labor Activist, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies Author, “They’re Bankrupting Us” - And Twenty Other Myths about Unions

Saket Soni Executive Director, National Guestworker Alliance and New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice Author, And Injustice for all: Workers’ Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans

The panel participants will assess the prospects for the U.S. and international labor movements at a time of expanding global corporate economic power and political and economic retrenchment of the organized labor movement in the U.S. How will elections that produced divided federal governance and emboldened conservative governments in many states influence labor’s prospects? Can labor unions rely on parliamentary and legislative strategies to reverse their decline? What potential do new forms of struggle and worker organization hold for labor? What history and traditions are relevant to the present circumstances? What is the future of strikes and other forms of worker insurgency?

Directions to the Eisner & Lubin AuditoriumAddress: 60 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012

Make a left out of 25 Broadway. Walk 1.5 blocks to Exchange Pl. Make a left and walk one block to the Rector St Station. Take the N/R train in the Queens direction. Take the train 5 stops to 8 St - NYU Station. Exit the station and follow the traffic down Broadway to E. 4th St. Make a right and walk 4.5 blocks to 60 Washington Square South. The Eisner & Lubin auditorium is on the 4th floor of the Kimmel Center.

Transit Time: 10m drive · 19m public transit · 40m walking

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Opening Plenary, Thursday, June 6, 8:00pm

Opening Reception and Union Workers’ Art Exhibit before Opening Plenary. For more information, see page 13.

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Session 3 Friday, June 7, 8:30 - 10:15am

3.1 Excluded Workers: Fighting Precarity


Chair Gregor Gall University of Hertfordshire

More Than Elder Companions: Home Care and Domestic Workers Eileen Boris University of California, Santa Barbara

Jennifer Klein Yale University

Day Workers: Possibilities for Collective Resistance Gretchen Purser Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Deportation by Design Cindy Hahamovitch The College of William and Mary

Beyond Exclusion: The Evolution of the Excluded Work-ers Congress Harmony Goldberg CUNY Graduate Center

3.2 Race, Class, and Rights: Worker Education Programs, 1918-1945


Chair, Comment Jon Bloom Workers Defense League

African American Mill Workers and Industrial Democracy, 1918-1929 Kathryn M. Silva Andrews University

Stetson Kennedy and the CIO-PAC: The Union Card and the Ballot as Weapons in the 1944 Election Diana Eidson Georgia State University

Defense Worker Training and the Reproduction of Labor Power in Houston, 1940-45 Bryant Etheridge Harvard University

3.3 Working-Class Resistance to the Carceral State


Chair, Comment Rebecca Hill Kennesaw State University

Links and Chains: Feminism, Black Power, and the 1975 Upris-ing at the Raleigh Women's Prison Amanda Hughett Duke University

Sabotage: Gender, Race, and Resistance on the Chain Gang Sarah Haley University of California, Los Angeles

Working Class Composition and De-Composition in the 1970s: Full Employment, the Carceral State, and the Politics of Fed-eral Budgeting David Stein University of Southern California

3.4 How AIDS Changed Everything


AIDS Clinics Organize: The Fight Within the Fight Miriam Frank New York University

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012 Film) Jim Hubbard Film Director

Union and Division at the Northwest Aids Foundation Christa Orth Historian, Writer

“If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be

living in caves.” - Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)

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3.5 Labor in Rural Communities: Class,

Race, and Gender in Company Towns


Chair Susan Levine University of Illinois at Chicago

Labor Rights and Freedom Struggles: African Americans in the Illinois Mine Wars, 1897-1904 Rosemary Feurer Northern Illinois University

The Geography of Union Avoidance: Rural Industrial Development in North Carolina in the 1950s Tyler G. Greene Temple University

Rural Identity, Gender, and Class Consciousness at the Amana Refrigeration Company in Rural Iowa, 1950-1970 CoreenDerifield Purdue University

3.6 Remaking International Labor Solidarity: Exploring Models of Labor

Internationalism in the US and

Canada Today


Chair, Comment Kim Scipes Purdue University, North Central

Organizing Labour Solidarity against Apartheid in Canada: Comparing the Work against South African and Israeli Apartheid Kartherine Nastovski York University, Toronto

U.S. Labor Against the War: Organizing Rank and File Solidarity against the War in Iraq Michael Zweig Stony Brook University

Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory Penny Lewis Murphy Institute, City University of New York

3.7 Managing Men, Constructing Masculinity, and Reckoning with Violence

in the Fordist Workplace


Chair, Comment Ava Baron Rider University

Killing Floor: Responses to Violence at Detroit and Windsor Auto Plants in the 1970s Jeremy Milloy Simon Fraser University

Making Canada's Organization Men in the Post-War Years: Shaping Identity and Imposing Control Jason Russel SUNY Empire State College

Just Horseplay? Defining Masculinity in Grievance Arbi-tration during the Fordist Accord, 1948-1970s Joan Sangster Trent University

3.8 Campus Labor and the Corporate

University: A Roundtable Discussion


Clarence Lang University of Kansas

James R. Barrett University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Kyle Schafer UNITE-HERE

Naomi Williams University of Wisconsin, Madison

“Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.” - Dolores Huerta

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3.9 The Challenge of

Engaged Scholarship

Location: GCWE 7-10

John W. McKerly University of Iowa

Susan Breitzer Campbell University, Fort Bragg

Kerry Taylor Massey University, New Zealand

EricFure-Slocum St. Olaf College

MichaelInnis-Jimenez University of Alabama

Session 4 Friday, June 7, 10:30am - 12:15pm

4.2 From Collective to Individual Rights: Lawyers Representing Workers in a

Changing Political Economy


Chair Jocelyn Wills Brooklyn College

Daniel E. Clifton Attorney

Ira Cure Attorney, St. Johns Law School

Bertrand B. Pogrebin Attorney, NYU Law School

Anne C. Vladeck Attorney, Columbia Law School

4.1 Maritime History Panel


Chair, Comment Matthew McKenzie University of Connecticut at Avery Point

Atlantic Fisherman’s Union (AFU) Colin J. Davis University of Alabama, Birmingham

‘Co-Adventurers’ - The Aversion of Scottish Herring Fishermen to Trade Union Organisation Bill Jewell John Moores University, Liverpool

Scots ‘Herring Lassies’ and Trade Unionism, c. 1900-1950 Sam Davies John Moores University, Liverpool

Italian Waterfront Strikes and Social Networks (Genoa and Venice, 1945-’69) Marco Caligari University of Venice

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Session 4, Friday, June 7, 10:30am - 12:15pm

LaborOnline

May, 2013. LaborOnline features commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical, as well as “instant” dialogue and debate among readers and authors about the contents of LAWCHA’s print journal, Labor.

• A “Death” the Whole World Should See by Clarence Lang

• Howard Zinn’s Greatest Error by Mark Lause

• Postindustrial Noir: Assessing The Wire by Peter Cole (includes articles from Labor)

• Sharpen Your Pencils and Your Pitchforks by Randi Storch

• Workers’ Memorial Day Reflections by Rosemary Feurer

LAWCHA.org/LaborOnline

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4.5 The Golden Age of

Proletarian Literature


Chair, Comment Tim Sheard National Writers Union/UAW

Working Class African American Radicalism Barbara Foley Rutgers University

The Homelessness Narrative: Nineteen Thirties Bottom Dogs Fiction and Twenty-First Century Radicalism Laura Hapke New York City College of Technology

Undermining Capitalist Pedagogy: Takiji Kobayashi’s Tōseikatsusha and the Ideology of the World Literature Paradigm John Maerhofer Roger Williams University

Reassessing John Steinbeck Through a Historical Institu-tional Framework Stacy Warner Maddern University of Connecticut

4.8 Domestic Workers and Workers'

Control in New York City


Chair Rebecca Lurie Consortium for Worker Education

Matt Ryan Alliance for a Greater New York

Ligia Guallpa Workers Justice Project

Barbara Young National Organizer, National Domestic Workers Alliance

Emma Yorra Center for Family Life in Sunset Park

4.4 Excluded and Precarious

Workers in the U.S.


Chair Richard Greenwald St. Joseph’s College

Linda Burnham National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)

VeronicaMartinez-Matsuda ILR School, Cornell University

Gretchen Purser Syracuse University

Maria Figueroa Cornell University

4.3 Workers’ Resistance in Spaces of American Empire: Labor Struggles in the

U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the

Philippines in the Early Twentieth Century


Chair, Comment Julie Greene University of Maryland

The Army’s Coolies: Chinese and Moro Military Labor and Racial Management in the United States’ Pacific Empire Justin Jackson Columbia University

Liberating Labor: Building the Road to New Empire in the U.S. Colonial Philippines Rebecca Tinio McKenna University of Notre Dame

Labor Radicalism, Latina/o Nationalisms and U.S. Sugar Politics in the 1930s April Merleaux Florida International University

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4.6 New Directions in Anarchist Historiog-raphy? Roundtable Discussion of The Hay-market Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist

Networks by Timothy Messer-Kruse


Tom Goyens Salisbury University

Mark Lause University of Cincinnati

Norman Markowitz Rutgers University

TimothyMesser-Kruse Bowling Green State University

4.7 The “Public” Image: Political Activism and Shifting Definitions of Citizenship in the

Twentieth Century


Chair, Comment Stephen Brier CUNY Graduate Center

"The Public Be Damned": Free-Market Activism and the Decline of Union Power, 1977-1978 Jon Shelton University of Maryland, College Park

"Nestle Kills Babies": Grassroots Campaign for Global Justice, 1976-1984 Paul Adler Georgetown University

A New Union: Enlisting the Public in Worker Activism, 1970-1980s Naomi Williams University of Wisconsin-Madison

Playboys and Partisans, Jokers and Jazzmen: Sex, Race, and Politics in the Cold War Nightclub Underground Stephen Duncan University of Maryland, College Park

4.9 Faculty Responses to University Corporatization: The Potential for

Unionization and Collective Action

Location: GCWE 7-10

Risa Lieberwitz ILR School, Cornell University

Jeff Grabelsky ILR School, Cornell University

David Dobbie AFT, Michigan

Rudy Fichtenbaum Wright State University

Ellen Schrecker Yeshiva University

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— Leo Panitch, York University

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5.1 Paterson Silk Worker Militancy and the Implications of 100 Years of

Labor Radicalism


Chair Erik Loomis University of Rhode Island

Comment Immanuel Ness Brooklyn College/CUNY

Melvyn Dubofsky SUNY at Binghamton

Steve Golin Bloomfield College

Jennifer Guglielmo Smith College

Mary Anne Trasciatti Hofstra University

5.2 Beyond the Shop Floor:

Communities on the Move


Chair, Comment Cecelia Bucki Fairfield University

Through the barricades: The opportunities and limits of Global Solidarity in a Midwestern Immigrant Community Jimmy Engren Luleå Tekniska Universitet

The Young Catholic Workers Movement and Working-Class Mobilization in Mid-Twentieth Century Chile Tracey Jaffe University of Dayton

"Thinking outside the PAC": Labor, Immigrant Struggles, and the Question of Political Action Mathieu Bonzom Université Paris-Est Créteil

Sound of Da (Anti) Police (Organizing): Historical Lessons of the Limits of Grassroots Organizing Against Police Violence Daniel Horowitz Garcia Georgia State University

5.3 Gaining Pride at Work: Queer Union

Experiences


Chair Phil Tiemeyer Philadelphia University

T. Judith Johnson Monroe County Public Defender Office, Civil Service Employees Association

Bess Watts Monroe Community College

Linda Donahue ILR School, Cornell University

5.4 Author Meets Critics: Barbara Garson, Down the Up Escalator: How the 99%

Live in the Great Recession


Ruth Milkman CUNY Graduate Center, and the Joseph F. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies

Doug Henwood Author, Radio Host, and Contributor to The Nation

Ed Ott The Murphy Institute, CUNY

Barbara Garson Playwright, Author, Activist

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5.5 Australia and the USA: Comparative

and Transnational Perspectives


Chair, Comment Francis Shor Wayne State University

Controlling Consumption: A Comparative History of Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and the U.S.A. Greg Patmore University of Sydney Nikola Balnave Macquarie University

The Vanishing “Frontier of Opportunity”: Unionization and Labor Conflict in the U.S. and Australia, 1880-1914 Bradley Bowden Griffiths University, Queensland Shelton Stromquist University of Iowa

Transnational Labor Activism Marilyn Lake University of Melbourne

5.6 Unmaking the New Deal: Labor, Class Politics, and the Rise of the Postwar Urban

Order


Chair, Comment Steve Fraser New Labor Forum

Labor and Liberal Republicanism: Making a Moderate Opposition to the New Deal Order Kit Smemo University of California, Santa Barbara

"We Had Tied That Noose Around Our Necks": Urban Renewal, Grassroots Planning, and the Battle to Build the University of Illinois-Chicago, 1947-1965 Richard Anderson Princeton University

Strange Bedfellows: The Fight Against Labor "Feather-bedding" and the Paradoxes of Postwar Productivism Kurt Newman University of California, Santa Barbara

5.7 Equal Pay at 50


Chair, Comment Cynthia Harrison George Washington University

The Transnational Forging of Equal Pay Eileen Boris University of California, Santa Barbara

The Equal Pay Act in Law Teaching and Legal Advocacy Serena Mayeri University of Pennsylvania Law School

"She Works Hard for the Money": A Critique of the Gen-der Gap in Earnings Sally Clarke University of Texas at Austin

5.8 In the Belly of the Beast: Organizing

Scholars and Activists in North Carolina


David Zonderman North Carolina State University

Lisa Levenstein University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Nancy MacLean Duke University

Robert Korstad Duke University

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Session 6Friday, June 7, 3:30 - 5:15pm

6.1 Big Ideas: Re-imagining Labor History


Chair Shana Redmond University of Southern California

Comment Shelton Stromquist University of Iowa

Great Strikes Revisited, 1892-1902: Why Leadership Mattered in the Gilded Age Leon Fink University of Illinois at Chicago

Indigenous People and Industrial Dispute Resolution: Some Reflections from the Antipodes Kerry Taylor Massey University

Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race and "Toward a Revolution in Labor History" Jeffrey B. Perry Independent Scholar

Demanding the Wage: What Can We Learn from Marxist-Fem-inists Today? Christina Rousseau York University

5.9 The Need for Cooperative Education


Chair Michael Menser CUNY Brooklyn College

Ethan Earle Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - New York Office

Omar Freilla Green Worker Cooperatives

Richard Wolff University of Massachusetts and The New School

Peter Ranis CUNY Graduate Center

6.2 Rights and Opportunities: Workers,

Employers, and the Politics of Ideas


Chair, Comment KimPhillips-Fein NYU, Gallatin

Equal Opportunity Reconstituted: Samuel Gompers, the AFL, and the Corporate Economy Claire Goldstene American University

The Constitutional Bases for Legal Challenges to Union Political Assessments Amy Wallhermfechtel Saint Louis University

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul

in prison, I am not free.- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)

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6.4 Following the Women: Working Women, the Labor Movement, and

Economic Justice


Chair Ileen A. DeVault ILR School, Cornell University

Jessica Wilkerson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Allison Elias University of Virginia

Keona Ervin University of Missouri

6.5 Occupy Kensington: Community

Support for Golden Farm Grocery Workers


Chair Michael Klein Occupy Kensington

Katherine Barut New York Communities for Change

Lucas Sanchez New York Communities for Change

Eleanor Rodgers Socialist Alternative, Founder, Member of Occupy Kensington

Gibb Surette Occupy Kensington, President, UAW Local 2330, Legal Services Staff Association

6.6 Intimacy, Invisibility, and Class Conflict in Service Workplaces across the

Twentieth Century


Chair, Comment Jennifer Klein Yale University

"You Will Feel Good About Yourself and Your Job": Gender, Class Formation, and Health Care Work in and around Pittsburgh, 1975-1985 Gabriel Winant Yale University

We Will Handle It Ourselves: Rules, Norms, and the Mic-ropolitics of Resistance Among Nursing Assistants Jillian Crocker University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Every domestic worker a union worker": African-Amer-ican Domestics' Labor Activism and New Deal Labor Legislation in New York Vanessa May Seton Hall University

6.3 100 Years in the Making: Rethinking and Remembering the 1913

I.W.W. Portland Cannery Strike, 1913-1914 Michigan Copper Country Strike, and

Italian Hall Tragedy


Years in the Making: Working-Class Activism and the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike Aaron A. Goings Saint Martin’s University

Seems Like Yesterday: Community Memory and the Michigan Copper Country Strike, 1913-2013 Lindsay Hiltunen Western Illinois University

Woody Guthrie Got it Right: New Perspectives on Violence against Strikers during the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and Italian Hall Tragedy Gary Kaunonen Michigan Technological University

“I have always thought what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership among other people.” - Ella Baker (1903-1986)

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6.9 The Many Battles of Blair Mountain


Chair Lou Martin Chatham University

James Green University of Massachusetts-Boston

Belmon Keeney Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College

Katey Lauer The Alliance for Appalachia

6.10 Progressive Intellectuals and Labor's Internal Controversies: Lessons of LAWCHA

Member Solidarity and Engagement


Chair Nick Unger Avondale Shipyard Research Project

EllenDavid-Friedman UC-Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

John Borsos National Union of Health Care Workers

Dan Clawson University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Nancy MacLean Duke University

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6.7 Domestic Workers' Organizing in the Americas: the Struggle for Justice

beyond Borders


Mary Goldsmith Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México, D.F.

Kathleen Coll Stanford University

Maria del Carmen Cruz Martinez Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Household Workers

Marcelina Bautista El Centro de Apoyo y Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar (CACEH)

Jill Shenker National Domestic Workers Alliance

6.8 Corruption, Organized Crime and the Labor Movement in Mid-Twentieth Century

U.S.


Chair Joshua Freeman Queens College, Graduate Center, and Joseph F. Murphy Labor Institute, City University of New York

Comment Robert Parmet York College, City University of New York

New York's Garment Trucking Industry and the Interna-tional Ladies Garment Workers' Union: A Study in the Complexities of Union Corruption David Witwer Penn State University, Harrisburg

Kosher Food and the Mob: The Kashrus Supervisors Union and Labor Politics in Postwar New York City Roger Horowitz Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library

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Schedule of Events

Film ScreeningsFriday, June 7, 6:30pm

Film Screenings


Chair Daniel Walkowitz New York University

With a Stroke of the Chaveta (2007)

Pam Sporn Director, Grito Productions

Shift Change (2013)

Melissa Young Filmmaker Mark Dworkin Filmmaker

Location: GCWE 7-10

Chair Eileen Boris University of California, Santa Barbara

Danger on the Set: Labor, Risk, and Health in the Adult Film Industry Heather Berg University of California, Santa Barbara

(Re)Framing Trafficking: Labor, Rights, and Resistance Kate D'Adamo Sex Worker Outreach Project, New York

Gender, Social Difference, and Persuasion: State Strate-gies and Individual Agency in the Implementation of the Cuban Revolution's National Campaign To End Prostitu-tion Alyssa Garcia Pennsylvania State University

Resisting the State: Sex Work and Third Party Criminal-ization Melissa Gira Grant Contributing Editor, Jacobin

Challenging Gender Norms? Feminist Institutional Theory and the Nonprofit Sector Samatha Majic John Jay College, CUNY

The Challenges of Sex Worker Unionisation Gregor Gall University of Bradford

6.11 Sex Work and the State: Regulation, Resistance, and Labor in the Americas

Film Screenings, Friday, June 7, 6:30pm

Join LAWCHA for back to back viewings of documentaries about the working class. Pam Sporn of Grito Productions and director of With a Stroke of the Chaveta, will join us, and filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin will discuss their new film, Shift Change. The session is chaired by Daniel Walkowitz of New York University.

Con el toque de la chaveta (With a Stroke of the Chaveta) takes viewers into the legendary cigar factories of Cuba to witness the unique practice of “la lectura de tabaquería”, the collective reading of literature while tabaqueros roll habanos. From “lectores” Odalys, Aguila and Gricel we learn about the challenges of meeting the expectations of a knowledgeable and demanding workforce and the satisfaction of receiving the applause of hundreds of “chavetas” in unison. Cigar makers inform us that they can’t imagine working without a reader to accompany them.

www.GritoProductions.com/with-a-stroke-of-the-chaveta

Shift Change is a documentary film by veteran award-winning filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin. It tells the little known stories of employee owned businesses that compete successfully in today’s economy while providing secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces. With the long decline in US manufacturing and today’s economic crisis, millions have been thrown out of work, and many are losing their homes. The usual economic solutions are not working, so some citizens and public officials are ready to think outside of the box, to reinvent our failing economy in order to restore long term community stability and a more egalitarian way of life.

www.ShiftChange.org

28 minutes

75 minutes

Reception in Honor of David Montgomery before Film Screenings. For more information, see page 13.

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Schedule of Events

Session 7 Saturday, June 8, 8:30 - 10:15am

7.1 From Sweatshop Floor to the Retail Store: Warehouse Workers, the WalMart

Strike Wave, and New Ways to Build Worker Power and Challenge the World's

Largest Private-Sector Employer


Chair Nelson Lichtenstein University of California, Santa Barbara

Louis Guida Warehouse Workers United/Change to Win

MarienCasilias-Pabellon New Labor

Nick Rudikoff Warehouse Workers United/Change to Win

Walmart Warehouse Strikers TBD

7.2 Working-Class Tenant Struggles in

New York City


Chair John Alter CUNY/Center for Urban Community Services

Roberta Gold Fordham University

Mario Mazzoni Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp

Andrés Mares Muro Former Organizer with Mirabal Sisters

7.3 Labor History in Secondary Social Studies: Pushing Back the Corporatized

Curriculum, A Workshop and Discussion


Gigi Peterson SUNY, Cortland

Conor Casey University of Washington, Seattle

Brendan Maslauskas Dunn SUNY, Cortland

7.4 Global Women's Work


Mary E. Frederickson Emory University

Sonya Michel University of Maryland

Beth English Princeton University

OlgaSanmiguel-Valderrama University of Cincinnati

Brigid O'Farrell Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University


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7.5 Towards a New Caribbean Labor Front: Lessons of the Past and

Future Prospects


Chair Prudence D. Cumberbatch Brooklyn College/CUNY

Roger Toussaint Transport Workers Union

Godfrey Vincent Tuskegee University

Roderick Bush St. John’s University

7.6 Thinking Critically About Community in the Organization of Women


Chair, Comment Susan A. Glenn University of Washington

"What Can a Dollar Get Ya?": Resistance and Community in Italian-American Women's Wage Work, Northeastern Pennsylvania 1929-1941 Emma Staffaroni Sarah Lawrence College

From the "Slave Market" to the Union Hall: New York City's Black Women Workers during the Great Depression Lindsey Dayton Columbia University

"Opportunity of a Lifetime": Paraprofessionals and the UFT in New York City, 1966-78 Nick Juravich Columbia University

Co-ops Co-opted: Women and Community in the Coop-erative Movement Jennifer Tammi Columbia University

7.7 Sisterhoods: Solidarity in Working-Class Women's Networks


Chair, Comment Elizabeth Faue Wayne State University

How a Working-Class Subject Came to Be: The Evolution of Grace Carlson's Political Consciousness DonnaHaverty-Stacke Hunter College, CUNY

From Farm Girl to Rebel Girl: The Radicalization of Pearl McGill Janet Weaver University of Iowa

Julia Ruuttila and the Private and Public Feminisms of the Radical Working Class Stephanie Taylor Georgetown University

7.8 U.S. Farm Workers, Agribusiness,

and the State


Chair, Bryant Etheridge Harvard University

Comment Cindy Hahamovitch College of William and Marry

From "Roll the Union On" to "Manpower" and Wage Rates: The USDA's Depoliticization of Farm Labor During the New Deal and World War II Jason Manthorne University of Georgia

Cream of Exploitation: Agribusiness and Farmworker Agency, the case of FLOC Katie Sutrina Northern Illinois University

Struggling for Unity, the Farm Workers' Movement and the Many Facets of Immigration, 1962-1975 Gabriel Lattanzio University of Paris Diderot

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7.9 Historical Perspectives on Health and

Safety


Chair, Comment Laurie Green University of Texas at Austin

Early Demands for a Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards: Steelworkers' Activism over Coke Oven Emissions, 1968-1976 Alan Derickson Penn State University, University Park

"Hot, noisy, dirty, dusty, hazardous": Black Workers, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Occupational Health and Safety in Detroit-Area Foundries, 1925-1975 Josiah Rector Wayne State University

Can We Learn from a Toxic Past? U.S. Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment in the 20th Century Marianne Sullivan William Paterson University of New Jersey

7.10 Neoliberalism, Labor, and

Militarization in Central America: Honduras


Chair Judith Ancel University of Missouri, Kansas City

Annie Bird Rights Action, Washington D.C.

Alex Main Center for Economic and Policy Analysis

Liana Foxvog International Labor Rights Forum

Lucy Pagoada Front for National Resistance of the People

Schedule of Events

7.11 Labor, Working Families, and the

Grassroots Fight for Public Education


Chair Jessie Ramey University of Pittsburgh

Kathy M. Newman Carnegie Mellon University

Rebecca Poyourow University of Pennsylvania

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Arts and Media

· Joshua Brown, “Introduction to TV’s The Wire”

· Peter Cole, “No Jobs on the Waterfront: Labor, Race, and the End of the Industrial City”

· Jennifer Luff, “Featherbedding, Fabricating, and the Failure of Authority on The Wire”

· Thomas Jessen Adams, “Gender, The Wire, and the Limits of the Producerist Critique of Modern Political Economy”

· Jennifer Klein, “Comment: “Way Down in the Hole”

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· Eric Arnesen, “Introduction: David Montgomery and the Shaping of the New Labor History”

· James Green, “David Montgomery, Scholar”

· David Brody, “David Montgomery, Field Builder”

· Julie Greene, “The Global Montgomery: Assessing the Place of the World in David Montgomery’s Historical Writing”

· Nelson Lichtenstein, “David Montgomery and the Idea of ‘Workers’ Control’”

· Jennifer Klein, “Class Power, Democracy, and the Market: Reflections on David Montgomery”

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Schedule of Events

8.2 Workers' Rights


Chair, Comment Bryan D. Palmer Trent University

Building an Accessible House of Labour: Work, Disability Rights, and the Canadian Labour Movement Dustin Galer University of Toronto

Emile Durkheim's Reform of Occupational Groups: a Socialist Conception of Professional Rights and Social Justice Mélanie Plouviez Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas

Going Beyond the Labor-Community Coalition Model: Lessons from New Orleans and the Avondale Shipyard Fight Nick Unger Avondale Shipyard Research Project

Labor Struggles at Canadian Mining Companies in Mexico Paul G. Bocking York University

8.3 Mobilizing Transnational Solidarity


Chair, Comment James Gregory University of Washington

“El Tío Sam sólo demanda igualdad de sacrificio”: The ILO’s Joint Bolivian-United States Labor Commission during World War II Michael J. Murphy Stony Brook University Hernán Pruden Stony Brook University

Trade Unions in the World of International Diplomacy: An Analysis of Trade Union Participation in Governmental Diplo-macy in Denmark Carsten Strøby Jensen University of Copenhagen

8.4 Putting Labor History in the Public Schools: A Legislative Approach


Cecelia Bucki Fairfield University

Kenneth Germanson Wisconsin Labor History Society

Rosemary Feurer Northern Illinois University

Stephen Kass Greater New Haven Labor History Association

Session 8 Saturday, June 8, 10:30am - 12:15pm

8.1 Working-Class Education and the Attack on Labor Education Centers


Chair Stephen Leberstein Brooklyn College, CUNY

Judy Ancel University of Missouri, Kansas City

Bill Adams Trades Union Congress, Yorkshire and Humber

Paul Mishler University of Indiana, South Bend

Roland Zullo University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations

Mike Mauer AAUP, Washington, D.C.

Liz Rees Trades Union Congress, London, U.K. Ro

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8.5 Memory in Service of Activism: The Triangle Fire Centennial and the Clara

Lemlich Awards


Chair, Comment Rose Imperato Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Organizing Commemoration and Remembrance of the Triangle Factory Fire Andi Sosin Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

The Clara Lemlich Awards for Social Activism Rachel Bernstein LaborArts

Teaching Labor: Lessons from The Triangle Factory Fire Centennial Rob Linne Adelphi University

8.6 Organizing Domestic Workers in New

York, London, and Los Angeles


Mark Nowak Manhattanville College

Peter Rachleff Macalester College

Premilla Nadasen Queens College, CUNY

Susanna Rosenbaum City College CUNY

Members of Domestic Workers United (DWU, NYC) and Justice for Domestic Workers (J4DW, London, via Skype)

8.7 A New Front for Labor: Unionized

Worker Cooperatives


Chair Christopher Michael CUNY Graduate Center and Law School

Michael Peck Mondragon USA

Chris Cooper Ohio Employee Ownership Center

Michael Elsas Cooperative Home Care Associates

Keith Joseph Service Employees International Union

8.8 Detroit: I Do Mind Dying


Dan Georgakas Historian and Co-Author

Marvin Surkin Political Scientist and Co-Author

Ron Reosti Detroit Civil Rights Attorney

Mike Hamlin Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and Wayne State University

When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his

dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

- Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)

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8.9 Forging Working-Class Identities through Workers' Newspapers


Chair David Scott Witwer Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg

The Intersection of Class and Ethnicity in Chicago's Foreign-Language Press Jon Bekken Albright College

Using the Masters’ Tools: Constructing a Revolutionary Work-ing-Class Identity in the Pages of the Cronaca Sovversiva Andrew Hoyt University of Minnesota

Voz Humana: Print Culture and the Construction of the Workers' identity in Puerto Rico, 1873-1910 Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo Teacher, Independent Scholar

Rereading American Syndicalism: The Immigrant Anarchist Press of Paterson, New Jersey, and the Unknown History of the Industrial Workers of the World Kenyon Zimmer University of Texas at Arlington

Jose Castilla and España Libre: Waging Satire Against the Dictatorship Montse Feu University of Houston

8.10 "The Teamsters' War on Poverty": Labor's Version of Civil Rights, Social

Rights, and Community Activism


Chair Rosemary Feurer Northern Illinois University

Comment Michael Pierce University of Arkansas

Social and Civil Rights Unionism: Chicago's Teamsters Local 743 Liesl Orenic Dominican University

A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums Bob Bussel University of Oregon

The Alliance for Labor Action: Another Kind of Federa-tion? Civic, Social and Civil Rights Unionism among 'The Poor', 1969-1972 Lisa Phillips Indiana State University

8.11 Organizing Carwash Workers in New York City


Chair, Comment Tony Perlstein Center for Popular Democracy

Hilary Klein Make the Road NY

Lorelei Salas Make the Road NY

Joseph Dorismond RWDSU

TBD Carwash Campaign Worker-Organizer

8.12 Contingent Academic Labor:

Organizing the New Faculty Majority


Chair Vincent Tirelli Brooklyn College/CUNY

Rana Jaleel New York University

Rich Moser Rutgers AAUP-AFT

Malini Cadambi Service Employees International Union

MarciaNewfield City University of New York, PSC-CUNY

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8.13 The Erosion of Labor Law and Worker

Insurgency Against Capital’s Offensive

Location: GCWE 7-10

John Cicero City University of New York Law School

Harris Freeman Western New England University

MichaelGoldfield Wayne State University

James Gray Pope Rutgers University Law School

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—FRANK BARDACKE, author, Trampling Out the Vintage:Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the UFW

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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

- Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (1837-1930)

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Session 9 Saturday, June 8, 2:15 - 4:00pm

Schedule of Events

9.1 The Chicago Teachers Union Strike: Social Movement Unionism and the

Defense of Public Education


Chair, Comment Tom Alter University of Illinois at Chicago

Steven Ashby University of Illinois, Labor Education Program

Megan Behrent Public School Teacher, Social Activist

Peter Brogan York University

Brian Jones CUNY Graduate Center

Michael Fabricant Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY, PSC-CUNY

Becca Bor Chicago Teachers Union

9.2 Feminist Labor Organizing in the 1970sLocation: CWE Room 7-52

Chair, Comment Robyn Spencer Lehman College

Socialist Feminists Organize: Boston and Chicago Linda Gordon New York University

New York City Day Care Campaign 1974-1976 Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall SUNY, Old Westbury

Feminism, Coalition Politics, and Domestic Workers' Campaign for Minimum Wage Premilla Nadasen Queens College, CUNY

9.3 “Let's Get to Work”: Community, Labor, and City Victories in New Haven


Tyisha Walker Local 35 UNITE-HERE, New Haven Board of Alderman

Major Ruth New Haven Works

Delphine Clyburn New Haven Board of Alderman

Barbara Vereen Local 34, UNITE-HERE

Mary Reynolds New Haven Works

9.4 Comparative Labor History in the 20th Century: States, Unions, Struggles


Chair, Comment Jennifer Klein Yale University

The Oilfields Workers' Trade Union and Working Class Political Formations Godfrey Vincent Tuskegee University

The Golden Age of Charrismo: Workers, Authoritarianism, and the Political Machinery of Post-Revolutionary Mexico Michael Snodgrass Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Worker Resistance in Times of Austerity - British Public Sector Workers in 1979 and Today Tara Martin Central Ohio Technical College

Labor and Exctractivism in the Andes: Colombian Coal Unions and Twenty-First Century Socialism Aviva Chomsky Salem State University

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9.5 Mother Jones Three Ways:

A Workshop for Teachers


Rosemary Feurer Northern Illinois University

LeighCampbell-Hale Fairview High School

9.6 Labor and the Arts


Chair, Comment Peter Rachleff Macalester College

Bread and Roses: The Evolution of a Song and the Memory of the Lawrence Strike Tom Juravich University of Massachusetts

Seeing Color and Gender: Local 65 Distributive Workers' Union Rank-and-File Photographers and the Representa-tion of Diversity Carol Quirke SUNY, Old Westbury

Love, Sweat, and Tears: A Poignant Expression of Love and Sacrifice on the Picket Lines in Salt of the Earth Sharron Greaves Nyack College

Historical Memory and Commemoration as Activism: On Equal Terms Susan Eisenberg Brandeis University

9.7 Union Organizing in the Twentieth

Century


Chair, Comment Leon Fink University of Illinois at Chicago

Class, Gender, and Ethnicity at Work in the Political Economy of Minneapolis in the 1910s Lars Olsson Linneaus University

Industrial Unionism and Labor Militancy in the Post-World War II East Texas Piney Woods: The Lone Star Steel Strikes of 1957 and 1968-69 David Anderson Louisiana Tech University

"No More Sweating it Out": Organizing Literature and Gendered Messages in the Post-War United States Stephen Patnode State University of New York at Farmingdale

Socializing Wages to Emancipate Casual Workers?: The French Experience of the Intermittents du Spectacle System Mathieu Grégoire Amiens University

9.8 The “New” Movements: "We won't pay

for your crisis - we are your crisis"


Chair, Comment Penny Lewis The Murphy Institute, CUNY

Marina Sitrin CUNY Graduate Center

Dario Azzellini Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

LuisMoreno-Caballud University of Pennsylvania

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9.9 The Working-Class Presence: Does History Matter to Workers When

Workers Matter to History?


Chair Michael Merrill The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies, SUNY Empire State College

Stephen Flynn High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture (CTEA)

Richard Wells The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies SUNY Empire State College

ChristineZeigler-MacPherson The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies SUNY Empire State College

9.10 Reclaiming Labor's Lost Legacy: The March on Washington for

Jobs and Freedom


Chair Mike Honey University of Washington, Tacoma

William P. Jones University of Wisconsin, Madison

Barbara Ransby University of Illinois, Chicago

Dorian T. Warren Columbia University

Thomas Jackson University of North Carolina, Greensboro

9.11 Building a Living Wage Movement in

New York City, 2005 to 2012

Location: GCWE 7-10

Chair Jeff Eichler Retail Organizing Project, 2004-2012

Ava Farkas Living Wage NYC Campaign, 2009-2012

Edison Bond, Jr. Micah Institute, New York Theological Seminary

DesireePilgrim-Hunter Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition

Michael Yellin LRA Consulting

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Closing PlenarySaturday, June 8, 4:30 - 6:30pm

Looking Forward: New Directions and Strategies for Labor

Location: The Great Hall, Cooper Union

Opening Remarks John Wilhelm Past President, UNITE-HERE

Chair Ruth Milkman CUNY Graduate Center and Murphy Institute for Worker Education

Ed Ott Murphy Institute for Worker Education, Past President, New York Central Labor Council,

Jaribu Hill Executive Director, Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights

Erik Forman Jimmy John’s Workers Union, Industrial Workers of the World

Linda Burnham Research Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

A Message from Staughton Lynd, Historian, Labor and Social Activist

Closing Remarks Elaine Bernard Executive Director, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

The LAWCHA closing plenary will examine the recent past and future prospects for labor and the working class. Speakers will examine and reflect on the decline of organized labor since the 1960s and offer new directions for the labor movement. They include labor leaders, activists, and academics, who will shed light on recent initiatives to rebuild a vibrant workers’ movement at the grassroots through community-labor organizations, traditional trade unions, and new forms of worker organization, drawing on organizing tactics and forms of collective action in which immigrants, people of color, and women workers have played central roles. The speakers will take note of the challenges and opportunities that new movements face in the rapidly changing global neoliberal economic system.

Directions to The Great Hall at Cooper UnionAddress: 7 E 7th St., New York, NY 10003

Cooper Union: Make a left out of 25 Broadway. Walk 1.5 blocks to Exchange Pl. Make a left and walk one block to the Rector St Station. Take the N/R train in the Queens direction. Take the train 5 stops to 8 St - NYU Station. Exit the station and follow the traffic down E. 8th St. for 1.5 blocks. Make a right on 4th Ave. Walk one block. Make a left on E. 7th St. Cooper Union’s Great Hall is at 7 E. 7th St.

Transit Time: 11m drive · 15m public transit · 45m walking

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Closing Plenary, Saturday, June 8, 4:30pm - 6:30pm

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Sunday, June 9, 10:30am - 12:00pm

Museum of the City of New York: Activist New York

Guide Stephen Petrus Museum of the City of New York

Join Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow Stephen Petrus at the Museum of the City of New York for a tour of the exhibition Activist New York, an exploration of the history of social activism in the city from the colonial era to the present. The exhibition shows that reform and radical movements that flourished in New York often had national implications. On issues as diverse as historic preservation, civil rights, wages, sexual orientation, and religious freedom, New Yorkers have mobilized to advance fresh agendas. Using artifacts, photographs, audio and visual presentations, Activist New York presents the passions and conflicts that underlie the city’s history of agitation.

The guided tour is limited to 25 participants, so registration is required.To register, send an email to Stephen Petrus ([email protected]).

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–Ruy Teixeira, Author of The Emerging Democratic Majority

The White Working Class Today is a studious, well-researched, and timely signal to progressives that we cannot ignore today’s Reagan Democrats. ...this book raises critical questions about how progressives should think about, define, and address the needs of the white working class.

–Stan Greenberg, leading Democratic political strategist and advisor to Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry

In White Working Class Today, Andrew Levison offers us a powerful analysis and solution to one of the most important dynamics in politics—the alienation between white working class voters and liberals.

–Karen Nussbaum, Executive Director of Working America, the 3 million member community affiliate of the AFL-CIO

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Index of Participants

Adams, Bill 8.1Adler, Paul 4.7Alter, John 7.2Alter, Thomas 1.7, 9.1Amman, John 1.3Ancel, Judith 7.10, 8.1Anderson, David 9.7Anderson, Richard 5.6Aronowitz, Stanley 1.1Ashby, Steven 9.1Azzellini, Dario 9.8

Badillo, Jorell A. 8.9Baisnée, Olivier 2.2Balnave, Nikola 5.5Barkin, David 0.1Baron, Ava 3.7Barrett, Dawson 2.3Barrett, James R. 3.8Barut, Katherine 6.5Bautista, Marcelina 6.7Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad 9.2Behrent, Megan 9.1Bekken, Jon 8.9Bender, Pennee 1.11Benivenni, Marcella 1.9Benton, James 2.7Berg, Heather 6.11Bernard, Elaine Closing PlenaryBernstein, Rachel 1.11, 8.5Bird, Annie 7.10Bjorge, Mikhail 2.6Bloom, Jon 3.2Bocking, Paul G. 8.2Bond, Edison, Jr. 9.11Bonzom, Mathieu 5.2Boris, Eileen 3.1, 5.7, 6.11Borsos, John 6.10Bowden, Bradley 5.5

Breitzer, Susan Roth 1.6, 3.9Brier, Stephen 4.7Brogan, Peter 9.1Bucki, Cecelia 5.2, 8.4Burnham, Linda 4.4, Closing

PlenaryBush, Roderick 7.5Bussel, Bob 8.10

Cadambi, Malini 8.12Caligari, Marco 4.1Campbell-Hale, Leigh 9.5Casey, Conor 7.3Casilias-Pabellon, Marien 7.1Chomsky, Aviva 9.4Chung, Daisy 0.3Cicero, John 8.13Clarke, Sally 5.7Clawson, Dan 6.10Clifton, Daniel E. 4.2Clyburn, Delphine 9.3Cobble, Dorothy Sue 2.10Cohen, Esther 8.5Coll, Kathleen 6.7Comack, Martin 2.6Cooper, Chris 8.7Crocker, Jillian 6.6Cumberbatch, Prudence D. 7.5Cure, Ira 4.2

D’Adamo, Kate 6.11Daniel, Evan M. 1.4Darras, Eric 2.2David-Friedman, Ellen 6.10Davies, Sam 4.1Davis, Collin J. 4.1Dayton, Lindsey 7.6Deale, Frank 2.1DeVault, Ileen A. 2.10, 6.4Denniston, Phillip 1.3Derickson, Alan 7.9Derifield, Coreen 3.5Dobbie, David 4.9Donahue, Linda 5.3Dorismond, Joseph 8.11Dubofsky, Melvyn 5.1Duncan, Stephen 4.7Dunn, Brendan Maslauskas 7.3Dworkin, Mark Friday Film

ScreeningEarle, Ethan 5.9Eichler, Jeff 9.11Eidson, Diana 3.2Eisenberg, Susan 9.6Elias, Allison 6.4Elsas, Michael 8.7English, Beth 7.4Engren, Jimmy 5.2

Entin, Joseph 2.4Ervin, Keona 6.4Etheridge, Bryant 3.2, 7.8

Fabricant, Michael 9.1Farkas, Ava 9.11Faue, Elizabeth 7.7Feu, Montse 8.9Feurer, Rosemary 3.5, 8.4, 9.5Fichtenbaum, Rudy 4.9Figueroa, Maria 1.3, 4.4Fink, Leon 6.1, 9.7Fletcher, Bill, Jr. Opening PlenaryFlynn, Stephen 9.9Foley, Barbara 4.5Forman, Erik Closing PlenaryFrank, Miriam 3.4Fraser, Steve 5.6Frederickson, Mary E. 7.4Freeman, Harris 8.13Freeman, Joshua 6.8Freilla, Omar 5.9Fure-Slocum, Eric 3.9

Galer, Dustin 8.2Gall, Gregor 3.1, 6.11Garcia, Alyssa 6.11Garcia, Daniel Horowitz 5.2Garson, Barbara 5.4Gellman, Erik 1.7Georgakas, Dan 8.8Germanson, Kenneth 1.2, 8.4Gibson, Paul 2.7Gidley, Ben 1.4Glenn, Susan A. 7.6Glicklich, Jacob 2.3Goings, Aaron A. 6.3Gold, Roberta 7.2Goldberg, Harmony 3.1Goldberg, Marshall 2.4Goldfield, Michael 2.7, 8.13Goldsmith, Mary 6.7Goldstene, Claire 6.2Golin, Steve 5.1Gordon, Linda 9.2Goyens, Tom 4.6Grabelsky, Jeff 2.10, 4.9Grandin, Greg 7.10Grant, Melissa Gira 6.11Gray, Lois 1.3Greaves, Sharron 9.6Green, James 6.9Green, Laurie 7.9Greenbaum, Joan 1.1Greene, Julie 4.3Greene, Tyler G. 3.5Greenwald, Richard 4.4

Gregory, James 8.3Griffiths-Dingani, Kate D. 2.9Gross, Daniel 5.1Grégoire, Mathieu 9.7Guallpa, Ligia 4.8Guglielmo, Jennifer 5.1Guida, Louis 7.1

Hahamovitch, Cindy 3.1, 7.8Haley, Sarah 3.3Hamlin, Mike 8.8Hanley, Larry 2.4Hapke, Laura 4.5Kessler-Harris, Alice Opening

PlenaryHarrison, Cynthia 5.7Haverty-Stacke, Donna 7.7Henning, Bill 2.8Henry, Sarah 1.11Henwood, Doug 5.4Hill, Jaribu Closing PlenaryHill, Rebecca 1.8, 3.3Hiltunen, Lindsay 6.3Hirsch, Michael 2.9Honey, Mike 9.10Horowitz, Roger 6.8House, Jordan 1.10Hoyt, Andrew 8.9Hubbard, Dean 2.1Hubbard, Jim 3.4Hughett, Amanda 3.3Hunter, Tera 2.7

Imperato, Rose 8.5Innis-Jimenez, Michael 3.9

Jackson, Justin 4.3Jackson, Thomas 9.10Jaffe, Tracey 5.2Jaleel, Rana 8.12Jensen, Carsten Strøby 8.3Jensen, Jill 5.7Jewell, Bill 4.1Johnson, T. Judith 5.3Jones, Brian 9.1Jones, William P. 9.10Joseph, Keith 8.7Juravich, Nick 7.6Juravich, Tom 9.6

Karpozilos, Kostis 1.9Kass, Stephen 8.4Katz, Daniel 2.10Kaunonen, Gary 6.3Keeney, Belmon 6.9Kelly, Brian 2.6Klein, Hilary 8.11Klein, Jennifer 3.1, 6.6, 9.4

Unless otherwise indicated, the numbers next to panelists’ name correspond to the session and panel number with which they are affiliated

Hill, Joe, 8.1, 9.2

Joe Hill is on the first panel of Session 8 and the second on Session 9. For exact times of panels, see page 12. Session 0 is the Opening Session.

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Index of ParticipantsKlein, Michael 6.5Korstad, Robert 5.8

La Botz, Dan Opening Film Screening, 2.9

Lake, Marilyn 5.5Lang, Clarence 3.8Lattanzio, Gabriel 7.8Lauer, Katey 6.9Lause, Mark 1.8, 4.6Leberstein, Stephen 8.1Levenstein, Lisa 5.8Levine, Steve 1.11Levine, Susan 3.5Lewis, Penny 3.6, 9.8Lichtenstein, Nelson 7.1Lieberwitz, Risa 4.9Linne, Rob 8.5Loomis, Erik 2.5, 5.1Losier, Toussaint 1.8Lurie, Rebecca 4.8

MacLean, Nancy 1.10, 5.8, 6.10Maddern, Stacy Warner 4.5Maerhofer, John 4.5Main, Alex 7.10Majic, Samatha 6.11Manthorne, Jason 7.8Markowitz, Norman 4.6Marsan, Benoit 1.9Martin, Brendan 0.1Martin, Lou 6.9Martin, Tara 9.4Martinez-Matsuda, Veronica 4.4Martinez, Maria del 6.7Mauer, Mike 8.1May, Vanessa 6.6Mayeri, Serena 5.7Mazzoni, Mario 7.2McDonald, Kathlene 1.3McKenna, Rebecca Tinio 4.3McKenzie, Matthew 4.1McKerly, John W. 3.9Menser, Michael 5.9Mercado, Juan Carlos Opening

ReceptionMerleaux, April 4.3Merrill, Michael 9.9Mertz, Adam 1.6Messer-Kruse, Timothy 4.6Mettler, Matt 2.7Michael, Christopher 8.7Michel, Sonya 7.4Milkman, Ruth 5.4, Closing PlenaryMilloy, Jeremy 3.7Mirer, Jeanne 2.1Mishler, Paul 8.1Mitrani, Sam 1.8

Moreno-Caballud, Luis 9.8Moser, Rich 8.12Muro, Andrés Mares 7.2Murphy, Ed 0.2Murphy, Michael J. 8.3

Nadasen, Premilla 8.6, 9.2Nastovski, Kartherine 3.6Newfield, Marcia 8.12Newman, Kathy M. 7.11Newman, Kurt 5.6Nowak, Mark 8.6

O’Farrell, Brigid 7.4O’Neill, Deirdre Opening Film

ScreeningObemauer, Adam 0.3Oeser, Alexandra 2.2Olsson, Lars 9.7Orenic, Liesl 8.10Orth, Christa 3.4Ott, Ed 5.4, Closing Plenary

Pagoada, Lucy 7.10Palmer, Bryan D. 8.2Parmet, Robert 6.8Patmore, Greg 5.5Patnode, Stephen 9.7Pearson, Chad E. 1.8Peck, Michael 8.7Perlstein, Tony 8.11Perry, Jeffrey B. 6.1Peterson, Gigi 7.3Petrus, Stephen Sunday TourPhillips-Fein, Kim 6.2Phillips, Lisa 8.10Pierce, Michael 8.10Pilgrim-Hunter, Desiree 9.11Piven, Frances Fox Opening PlenaryPlouviez, Mélanie 8.2Pogrebin, Bertrand B. 4.2Polland, Annie 1.11Pope, James Gray 8.13Post, Charles 2.9Poyourow, Rebecca 7.11Pratt, David 1.5Pruden, Hernán 8.3Purser, Gretchen 3.1, 4.4

Quirke, Carol 9.6

Rachleff, Peter 8.6, 9.6Ramey, Jessie 7.11Ranis, Peter 5.9, 0.1Ransby, Barbara 9.10Ray, Donna Thompson 1.11Rector, Josiah 2.5, 7.9Redmond, Shana 6.1

Rees, Liz 8.1Reosti, Ron 8.8Revitte, John 1.2Reynolds, Mary 9.3Rhomberg, Chris 1.10, 2.2Rich, Evelyn Jones 8.5Robertson, John 2.6Robinson, Beth 2.3Robinson, Diana 0.3Rodgers, Eleanor 6.5Roll, Jarod, 1.7Rosenbaum, Susanna 8.6Rosenthal, Susan 1.5Rouger, Audrey 2.2Rousseau, Christina 6.1Rudikoff, Nick 7.1Russel, Jason 3.7Ruth, Major 9.3Ryan, Matt 4.8

Sager, Paul 1.4Salas, Lorelei 8.11Sanchez, Lucas 6.5Sangster, Joan 3.7Sanmiguel-Valderrama, Olga 7.4Sarmiento, Evan 1.7Schafer, Kyle 3.8Schermerhorn, Tim 2.9Schrecker, Ellen 4.9Scipes, Kim 3.6Sellers, Christopher 2.5Shaffer, Kirwin 1.4Sheard, Tim 2.4, 4.5Shelton, Jon 4.7Shenker, Jill 6.7Shor, Francis 5.5Shotwell, Gregg 1.5Silva, Kathryn M. 3.2Sitrin, Marina 9.8Slater, Joseph E. 1.6Smemo, Kit 5.6Snodgrass, Michael 9.4Sodikoff, Genese Marie 1.4Soni, Saket 2.10, Opening PlenarySosin, Andi 8.5Spencer, Robyn 9.2Sporn, Pam Friday Film ScreeningStaffaroni, Emma 7.6Stein, David 3.3Stein, Judith 2.7Stromquist, Shelton 5.5, 6.1Sullivan, Marianne 7.9Surette, Gibb 6.5Surkin, Marvin 8.8Sutrina, Katie 7.8Syzmanski, Sharon 2.4

Tammi, Jennifer 7.6Taylor, Kerry 3.9, 6.1Taylor, Stephanie 7.7Terry, John 2.3Thompson, Michael J. 1.1Thomson, Jennifer 2.5Tiemeyer, Phil 5.3Tirelli, Vincent 8.12Tuminaro, Dominick 2.1Toussaint, Roger 7.5Trasciatti, Mary Anne 5.1

Unger, Nick 2.1, 6.10, 8.2

Velarde, Michael 0.3Vereen, Barbara 9.3Vincent, Godfrey 7.5, 9.4Vladeck, Anne C. 4.2

Walker, Tyisha 9.3Walkowitz, Daniel Friday Film

ScreeningWallhermfechtel, Amy 6.2Walzer, Joe 2.3Warren, Dorian T. 9.10Watts, Bess 5.3Wayne, Michael Opening Film

ScreeningWeaver, Janet 7.7Wells, Richard 9.9Whisler, Jason 1.6Wilhelm, John Closing PlenaryWilk, Daniel Levinson 8.5Wilkerson, Jessica 6.4Williams, Naomi 3.8, 4.7Wills, Jocelyn 1.10, 4.2Wilpert, Gregory 0.1Winant, Gabriel 6.6Windham, Lane 2.7Witwer, David Scott 8.9Witwer, David 6.8Wolff, Richard Opening Plenary,

5.9

Yellin, Michael 9.11Yorra, Emma 4.8Young, Barbara 4.8Young, Melissa Friday Film

ScreeningZeigler-MacPherson, Christine 9.9Zimmer, Kenyon 8.9Zonderman, David 5.8Zucker, Gregory 1.1Zullo, Roland 8.1Zweig, Michael 3.6

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