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LAWCHA extends a generous thanks to thisyear’s program committee for organizing theconference:

Chair: Kim Phillips BrooklynCollege

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

WashingtonClarence Lang University of Kansas

Chris Michael Graduate Center,CUNY

Priscilla Murolo Sarah Lawrence

College

Ryan Poe Duke University

Jacob Remes SUNY Empire StateCollege

Shelton Stromquist University of Iowa

Daniel Walkowitz New YorkUniversity

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Film Screeni ng: The Condit ion of t he Working Class Wednesday, June 5, 6:30pm

Film Screeni ng: Fuell i ng Povert y: A Documentar y Fil m about Occupy Nigeri a

Thursday, June 6, 3:30pm - 5:15pm

Opening ReceptionThursday, June 6, 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Plenary: The Assault on Labor and the Public Sector: Strategies

for Resistance in the Post-Election EnvironmentThursday, June 6, 8:00pm

Reception in Honor of the University of Illinois Press' Working Class in American History Series and theDavid Montgomery Book Prize

Friday, June 7, 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Film Screeni ng: Wit h a St roke of t he Chaveta & Shif t Change Friday, June 7, 6:30pm

LAWCHA Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon

Plenary: Looking Forward: New Directions and Strategies for LaborSaturday, June 8, 4:30 - 6:30pm

CHA Conference, "Rights, Solidarity, Justice" NYC, June 6-8 http://lawcha.org/wordpress/annualmeeting/nyc2013/

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

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

7-15 Hurricane Sandy Stories: A Workers Perspective

7-52 Worker Control and Community Councils in Latin America

8159 Organizing Workers along the Food Chain

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

7 A Work and Domination

7-15 Union Organizing: Tactics and Strategy in the Contemporary Era

7-19 Transnational Perspectives on Worker Radicalism

7-21 Liberal Reform and State Repression in the Urban North

7-22 Racism and Reaction

7-27 Politics, Unions, and Class Identity: Changing Opinions in the American Heartland

7-49 The Untold Story of the UAW-AFL: How workers created a viable union against the odds

7-51 The Fight for Social Health - A Working-Class Perspective

7-52 Class on the Periphery: Work and Workers in Colonial Contexts

8159 Many Pasts, Many Publics: Labor History in NYC

8162 Precarious Workers in the Arts and Entertainment Industry

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

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

7-15 Karl Marx, Trade Unionist and Revolutionary

7-19 The Politics of Union Democracy

7-21 Traded Futures, Traded Pasts: 20th Century U.S. Trade Policy and the Working Class

7-21 STRIKE!

7-22 Toxicity, Exposure, and Blue-Green Alliances in the 1970s and 1980s

7-50 The Renaissance of Proletarian Literature

7-52 'Opportunities for Defiance': Embracing Guerilla History and Moving Beyond Scott Walker's Wisconsin

8150 Organizing Contingent Labor: Lessons from the Past and Struggles of the Future8151 Fighting for Work: The Closure of a Factory in Southern France

8162 The Future of the Movement: Building Hotel Worker Power in the Northeast

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

7 A Excluded Workers: Fighting Precarity

8143 Campus Labor and the Corporate University: A Roundtable Discussion

7-19 Managing Men, Constructing Masculinity, and Reckoning with Violence in the Fordist Workplace

7-22 Remaking International Labor Solidarity: Exploring models of Labor internationalism in the US and Canada Today

7-27 Labor in Rural Communities: Class, Race, and Gender in Company Towns

7-50 How AIDS Changed Everything

7-52 Working-Class Resistance to the Carceral State8143 Campus Labor and the Corporate University: A Roundtable Discussion

8151 Race, Class, and Rights: Worker Education Programs, 1918-1945

8159 The Challenge of Engaged Scholarship

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

7-15 Domestic Workers and Workers' Control in New York City

7-19 The 'Public' Image: Political Activism and Shifting Definitions of Citizenship in the Twentieth Century

7-21 New Directions in Anarchist Historiography? Roundtable Discussion of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks by

Timothy Messer-Kruse

7-50 The Golden Age of Proletarian Literature


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7-52 Excluded and Precarious Workers in the U.S.

8151 Maritime History Panel

8143 Workers' Resistance in Spaces of American Empire: Labor Struggles in the U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in the EarlyTwentieth Century

8159 Faculty Responses to University Corporatization: The Potential for Unionization and Collective Action

8160 From Collective to Individual Rights: Lawyers Representing Workers in a Changing Political Economy

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

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

7-15 The Need for Cooperative Education

7-21 In the Belly of the Beast: Organizing Scholars and Activists in North Carolina

7-22 Equal Pay at 50

7-50 Unmaking the New Deal: Labor, Class Politics, and the Rise of the Postwar Urban Order

7-52 Australia and the USA: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

8143 Beyond the Shop Floor: Communities on the Move

8151 Gaining Pride at Work: Queer Union Experiences

8159 Author Meets Critics: Barbara Garson, Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession

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

7 A Big Ideas: Re-imagining Labor History

7-15 Progressive Intellectuals And Labor's Internal Controversies: Lessons of LAWCHA Member Solidarity and Engagement

7-19 The Many Battles of Blair Mountain

7-21 Corruption, Organized Crime and the Labor Movement in Mid-Twentieth Century U.S.

7-22 Domestic Workers' Organizing in the Americas: the Struggle for Justice beyond Borders

7-27 Intimacy, Invisibility, and Class Conflict in Service Workplaces across the Twentieth Century

7-52 Occupy Kensington: Community Support for Golden Farm Grocery Workers

8143 Following the Women: Working Women, the Labor Movement, and Economic Justice

8151 100 Years in the Making: Rethinking and Remembering the 1913 IWW's Portland Cannery Strike, 1913-1914 Michigan Copper CountryStrike, and Italian Hall Tragedy

8159 Sex Work and the State: Regulation, Resistance, and Labor in the Americas

8160 Rights and Opportunities: Workers, Employers, and the Politics of Ideas

8143 Following the Women: Working Women, the Labor Movement, and Economic Justice

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

7 A 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

7-15 Labor, Working Families, and the Grassroots Fight for Public Education

7-19 Neoliberalism, Labor and Militarization in Central America: Honduras

7-21 Historical Perspectives on Health and Safety

7-22 Thinking Critically about Community in the Organization of Women

7-27 U.S. Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State

7-50 Sisterhoods: Solidarity in Working-Class Women's Networks

7-52 Towards a New Caribbean Labor Front: Lessons of the Past and Future Prospects

8120 Global Women's Work

8143 Working-Class Tenant Struggles in New York City

8151 Labor History in Secondary Social Studies: Pushing Back the Corporatized Curriculum A Workshop and Discussion

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

7 A Working Class Education and the Attack on Labor Education Centers

7-15 Contingent Academic Labor: Organizing the New Faculty Majority

7-19 Organizing Carwash Workers in NYC

7-21 "The Teamsters' War on Poverty": Labor's Version of Civil Rights, Social Rights, and Community Activism

7-22 Organizing Domestic Workers in New York, London, and Los Angeles


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7-27 Memory in Service of Activism: The Triangle Fire Centennial and the Clara Lemlich Awards

7-33 Putting Labor History in the Public Schools: A Legislative Approach

7-50 Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

7-52 A New Front for Labor: Unionized Worker Cooperatives

8C Workers' Rights

8143 Mobilizing Transnational Solidarity

8151 Forging Working-Class Identities through Workers' Newspapers

8120 The Erosion of Labor Law and Worker Insurgency against Capital’s Offensive

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

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

7-15 Reclaiming Labor's Lost Legacy: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

7-19 The Working-Class Presence: Does History Matter to Workers When Workers Matter to History?

7-21 The "New" Movements: "We won't pay for your crisis - we are your crisis"

7-22 Union Organizing in the Twentieth Century

7-27 Labor and the Arts

7-33 Mother Jones Three Ways : A Workshop for Teachers

7-50 Comparative Labor History in the 20th Century: States, Unions, Struggles

7-51 "Let's Get to Work": Roundtable on Community, Labor, and City Victories in New Haven

7-52 Feminist Labor Organizing in the 1970s

8120 Building a Living Wage Movement in New York City, 2005 to 2012

Location: CWE Auditorium

Screener Dan La Botz New Politics

Michael Wayne Filmmaker

Deirdre O'Neill Filmmaker

Everything changes and yet everything stays the same. 1844: Friedrich Engels writes his book 'The Condition of theWorking Class in England', a classic denunciation of the appalling living conditions for working people living at theheart of the industrial revolution in Manchester, England. In 2012: a group of working class people from Manchesterand Salford have the job of devising a theatrical show from scratch based on their own experiences and Engels' book.They have 8 weeks before their first performance. The Condition of the Working Class follows the process from thefirst rehearsal to first night and situates their struggle to get the show on stage in the context of the daily strugglesof working people facing economic crisis and austerity politics.


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

Location: CWE Room 7-15

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


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

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8159

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


Gregory Zucker CUNY Graduate Center

Stanley Aronowitz CUNY Graduate Center

Joan Greenbaum CUNY Graduate Center

Michael J. Thompson William Paterson University


Chair, Comment

Nancy MacLean Duke 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

This is What a Picket Line Looks Like:" Strike Support and the Toronto Porter Airlines Fueller Struggle

Jordan House York University

The Modern Russian Trade Union Movement: Transformations and Autonomous Strategies


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Irina Olimpieva Center for Independent Social Research in St. Petersburg


The 'Lost Worlds' of Ethnic Radicalism in a Transnational Perspective

Kostis Karpozilos Columbia Global Center/EuropeMarcella 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


Comment

Rebecca Hill Kennesaw State University

Chair, Comment

Mark Lause University of Cincinnati

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 Working 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


Chair, Comment

Erik Gellman Roosevelt University

From the Cooperative Commonwealth to the Invisible Empire: The Farm-Labor Bloc and the Creation of the WhitePrimary in Texas, 1919-1923

Tom Alter University of Illinois at Chicago

Aspects of Re-proletarianization: The South Boston Busing Crisis

Evan Sarmiento University of Massachusetts, Boston

White, American, Non-Union: Making Sense of Missouri's Notorious Strikebreaking Miners

Jarod Roll University of Mississippi


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

Conservatism

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-makingIllinois Public Employee Relations

Susan Roth Breitzer Campbell University, Fort Bragg Campus

Class Identities and Working-Class Conservatism: A Community Study of Unions, Class, and Politics in Waterloo, Iowain 1968

Jason Whisler University of Iowa


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Kenneth Germanson Wisconsin Labor History Society

John Revitte Michigan State University


Susan Rosenthal Physician, Activist, Author

Gregg Shotwell Retired GM Worker, Activist, and Author

David Pratt NYCOSH Long Island


Chair, Comment

Evan M. Daniel Queens College, CUNY

Neoliberal Conservation and Worker-Peasant Autonomism in Madagascar

Genese Marie Sodikoff Rutgers University

Transnational Anarchism in the Extended Caribbean: Cuba, Florida, Panama, and Puerto Rico in the Early TwentiethCentury

Kirwin Shaffer Penn State University, Berks College

Provincializing the Lower East Side: Rethinking the Jewish 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


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

Annie Polland The Tenement Museum

Donna Thompson Ray American Social History Project


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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Thursday, June 6, 3:30 - 5:15pm

Omoyele Sowore Founder SaharaReporters.com

A rallying cry for change in Nigeria by the Occupy Nigeria movement and an artistic depiction of the failings of fuelsubsidy management in Nigeria, Fuelling Poverty graphically captures the various contours of this debate and theresilience of Nigerians in demanding change. It examines the effect of corruption on the country and the need forNigerians to hold their government accountable.


Frank Deale CUNY Law School

Dean Hubbard National Lawyers Guild

Jeanne Mirer International Commission for Labor Rights

Dominick Tuminaro Brooklyn College/CUNY

Nick Unger Avondale Shipyard Research Project


Chair, Comment

Michael Hirsch New Politics

Dan La Botz New Politics

Kate D. Griffiths-Dingani CUNY Graduate Center

Charles Post BMCC, City University of New York

Tim Schermerhorn Transit Workers Union Local 100


Chair, Discussant

Tera Hunter Princeton University

The Making and Reception of When Labor Votes: The UAW's First Poll and the Limits of Social Scientific Authority

Matt Mettler Towson University

Southern Coalminers Self Organization: The Myth of Section 7A

Michael Goldfield Wayne State University

How to Build Rank-and-File Labor Organization and Establish Union Accountability

Bill Henning CUNY, Center for Worker Education


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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


Chair, Discussant

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


Chair, Comment

Christopher Sellers SUNY--Stony Brook

Herbicide Exposure and the Creation of Working-Class Consciousness in Countercultural Reforestation Cooperatives,1970-1985

Erik Loomis University of Rhode Island

"We're all going to be suffering from the same thing": Labor, Environmental Politics and the Detroit Incinerator,1986-1991

Josiah Rector Wayne State University


Chair, Discussant

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 ProjectMarshall Goldberg University of Massachusetts Labor Education Program

Labor Writes

Sharon Syzmanski SUNY Empire State College


Chair, Comment Beth Robinson University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Dawson Barrett University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee


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Jacob Glicklich University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Joe Walzer University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

John Terry University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee


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


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


Joey DeFrancesco Former Worker and Organizing Committee Member at the Renaissance Providence Hotel

Carmen Castillo Omni Providence Hotel Housekeeper, Member UNITE HERE Local 217, Providence City Councilwoman

Victoria Ruiz Former Worker and Organizing Committee Member at the Renaissance Providence Hotel

Paul Gomez UNITE-HERE Local 6

Neil Johnson UNITE-HERE Local 6

Athena Mennis UNITE-HERE Local 6


Opening Remarks Juan Carlos Mercado CUNY, Center for Worker Education

Join us on Thursday night before our opening plenary to kick off the conerence. Opening comments by Juan CarlosMercado from the CUNY Center for Worker Education. The reception will also celebrate the opening of the HurricanSandy Workers' exhibit, Unseen America.


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

Location: Eisner-Lubin Auditorium, New York University

Chair, Opening Remarks Alice Kessler 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; and 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 US and international labor movements at a time of expandingglobal corporate economic power and political and economic retrenchment of the organized labor movement in theU.S. How will elections that produced divided federal governance and emboldened conservative governments inmany states influence labor\'s prospects? Can labor unions rely on parliamentary and legislative strategies to reversetheir decline? What potential do new forms of struggle and worker organization hold for labor? What history andtraditions are relevant to the present circumstances? What is the future of strikes and other forms of worker

insurgency?


Chair

Gregor Gall University of Hertfordshire

More Than Elder Companions: Home Care and Domestic Workers

Eileen Boris University of California, Santa BarbaraJennifer 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 Workers Congress

Harmony Goldberg CUNY Graduate Center


Clarence Lang University of Kansas

James R. Barrett University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Kyle Schafer UNITE HERE

Naomi Williams University of Wisconsin, Madison


Chair, Discussant


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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 Empire State College, SUNY

Just Horseplay? Defining Masculinity in Grievance Arbitration during the Fordist Accord, 1948-1970s

Joan Sangster Trent University


Chair, Comment

Kim Scipes Purdue University, North Central

Organizing labour solidarity against Apartheid in Canada: Comparing the work against South African and IsraeliApartheid

Kartherine Nastovski York University, Toronto

US Labor Against the War: Organizing rank and file solidarity against the war in Iraq

Michael Zweig State University of New York, Stony Brook

Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory

Penny Lewis Murphy Institute, City University of New York


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, 1950-1970Coreen Derifield Purdue University


Aids Clincs 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


Chair, Comment

Rebecca Hill Kennesaw State University

Links and Chains: Feminism, Black Power, and the 1975 Uprising 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


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

Working Class Composition and De-Composition in the 1970s: Full Employment, the Carceral State, and the Politicsof Federal Budgeting

David Stein University of Southern California


Chair, Discussant

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


John W. McKerly University of Iowa

Susan Roth Breitzer Campbell University, Fort BraggKerry Taylor Massey University, New Zealand

Eric Fure-Slocum St. Olaf College

Michael Innis-Jimenez University of Alabama


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


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


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Timothy Messer-Kruse Bowling Green State University

Tom Goyens Salisbury University

Mark Lause University of Cincinnati

Norman Markowitz Rutgers University


Chair, Discussant

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

ParadigmJohn Maerhofer Roger Williams University

Reassessing John Steinbeck Through a Historical Institutional Framework

Stacy Warner Maddern University of Connecticut


Chair Richard Greenwald St. Joseph's College

Linda Burnham National Research Coordinator of the National Domestic Workers Alliance(NDWA)

Veronica Martinez-Matsuda ILR School, Cornell University

Gretchen Purser Syracuse University

Maria Figueroa Cornell University


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, LiverpoolScots 'Herring Lassies' and Rrade 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


Chair, Comment


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

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


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


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


Chair Erik Loomis University of Rhode Island

Discussant Immanuel Ness Brooklyn College/CUNY

Melvyn Dubofsky State University of New York, Binghamton

Steve Golin Bloomfield College

Jennifer Guglielmo Smith College

Mary Anne Trasciatti Hofstra University


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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

Ken Estey CUNY Graduate Center


David Zonderman North Carolina State University

Robert Korstad Duke University

Lisa Levenstein University of North Carolina, Greensboro



Chair, Comment

Cynthia Harrison George Washington University

The Transnational Forging of Equal Pay

Eileen Boris University of California, Santa BarbaraJill Jensen Penn State University

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 Gender Gap in Earnings

Sally Clarke University of Texas at Austin


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 theUniversity of Illinois-Chicago, 1947-1965

Richard Anderson Princeton University

Strange Bedfellows: The Fight Against Labor "Featherbedding" and the Paradoxes of Postwar Productivism

Kurt Newman University of California, Santa Barbara


Chair, Discussant

Francis Shor Wayne State University

Controlling Consumption: A Comparative History of Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and the USA

Greg Patmore University of Sydney

Co-author, with Greg Patmore

Nikola Balnave Macquarie University


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

The Vanishing 'Frontier of Opportunity': Unionisation 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


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 PoliceViolence

Daniel Horowitz Garcia Georgia State University


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

Donna Cartwright Transgender Caucus of Pride @ Work


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

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

Ed Ott The Murphy Institute, CUNY

Barbara Garson Playwright, Author, Activist


Discussant

Shelton Stromquist University of Iowa

Chair

Shana Redmond University of Southern California

Great Strikes Revisited, 1892-1902: Why Leadership Mattered in the Gilded Age

Leon Fink University of Illinois at Chicago


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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-Feminists Today?

Christina Rousseau York University


Chair Nick Unger Avondale Shipyard Research Project

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

John Borsos National Union of Health Care Workers

Dan Clawson University of Massachusetts, Amherst



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


Chair

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

CommentRobert Parmet York College, City University of New York

New York's Garment Trucking Industry and the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union: A Study in theComplexities 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


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)

María Reyes National Domestic Workers' Alliance


Chair, Comment

Jennifer Klein Yale University


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"You Will Feel Good About Yourself and Your Job": Gender, Class Formation, and Health Care Work in and aroundPittsburgh, 1975-1985

Gabriel Winant Yale University

We Will Handle It Ourselves: Rules, Norms, and the Micropolitics of Resistance Among Nursing Assistants

Jillian Crocker University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Every domestic worker a union worker": African-American Domestics' Labor Activism and New Deal Labor Legislationin New York

Vanessa May Seton Hall University


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


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


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


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 Strategies and Individual Agency in the Implementation of theCuban Revolution's National Campaign To End Prostitution

Alyssa Garcia Pennsylvania State University

Resisting the State: Sex Work and Third Party Criminalization

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


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


Chair, Comment

Kim Phillips-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


Please join the University of Illinois Press and LAWCHA for a wine and cheese reception celebrating the WorkingClass in American History Series and announcing the LAWCHA/OAH David Montgomery Book Prize. Celebrating 35

years of publishing working history, the University of Illinois Press is proud to welcome two new editors, JulieGreene and William P. Jones, to our series board, joining Alice Kessler-Harris, James Barrett, and NelsonLichtenstein. This reception offers an occasion to celebrate recent publications in the series and announce ways theseries is opening to changes and developments in the field.


Chair Daniel Walkowitz New York University With a Stroke of Chaveta

Pam Sporn Director, Grito Productions

Shift Change

Melissa Young Filmmaker Mark Dworkin Filmmaker

With a Stroke of the Chaveta takes viewers into today's legendary cigar factories of Cuba to witness the uniquepractice of la lectura de tabaquería, the collective reading of literature, while tabaqueros roll habanos. Fromlectores Odalys, Aguila, and Gricel we learn about the challenges of meeting the expectations of a knowledgeableand demanding workforce and the satisfaction of receiving the applause of hundreds of chavetas struck in unison.This poetic film leaves us wondering where to draw the line between "worker" and "intellectual."

Shift Change is a documentary film by veteran award-winning filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin. It tellsthe little known stories of employee owned businesses that compete successfully in today's economy while providingsecure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces. With the long decline in US manufacturing and today's economiccrisis, millions have been thrown out of work, and many are losing their homes. The usual economic solutions are notworking, so some citizens and public officials are ready to think outside of the box, to reinvent our failing economyin order to restore long term community stability and a more egalitarian way of life.


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Discussant Nelson Lichtenstein UC, Santa Barbara

Louis Guida Warehouse Workers United/Change to Win

Marien Casilias-Pabellon New Labor Nick Rudikoff Warehouse Workers United/Change to Win

Walmart Warehouse Strikers


Chair Jessie Ramey University of Pittsburgh.

Kathy M. Newman Carnegie Mellon University

Rebecca Poyourow University of Pennsylvania


Chair

Judith Ancel University of Missouri, Kansas City

Annie Bird Rights Action, Washington D.C.

Alex Main Center for Economic and Policy Analysis

Lucy Pagoada Front for National Resistance of the People

Liana Foxvog International Labor Rights Forum


Chair, Discussant

Laurie Green University of Texas at Austin

Early Demands for a Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards: Steelworkers' Activism over Coke OvenEmissions, 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 Safetyin 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


Chair, Discussant

Susan A. Glenn University of Washington

"What can a Dollar Get Ya?": Resistance and Community in Italian-American Women's Wage Work, NortheasternPennsylvania 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


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Nick Juravich Columbia University

Jennifer Tammi Columbia University


Chair

Bryant Etheridge Harvard University

Comment

Cindy Hahamovitch College of William & Marry

From "Roll the Union On" to "Manpower" and Wage Rates: The USDA's Depoliticization of Farm Labor During the NewDeal 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


Chair, Comment

Elizabeth Faue Wayne State University

"How a Working-Class Subject Came to Be: The Evolution of Grace Carlson's Political Consciousness."

Donna Haverty-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


Chair Prudence D. Cumberbatch Brooklyn College/CUNY

Dan La Botz New Politics

Godfrey Vincent Tuskegee University

Roderick Bush St. John’s University


Mary E. Frederickson Emory University

Sonya Michel University of Maryland

Beth English Princeton University

Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama University of Cincinnati

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


Chair John Alter CUNY/Center for Urban Community Services

More than a Hamburger -- or a Toilet: Community-Controlled Redevelopment in New York

Roberta Gold Fordham University


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

Mario Mazzoni Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp

Susanna Blankley CASA/New Settlement


Gigi Peterson SUNY, Cortland

Conor Casey University of Washington, SeattleBrendan Maslauskas Dunn SUNY, Cortland


Chair Stephen Leberstein Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Judith 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.


Chair Vincent Tirelli Brooklyn College/CUNY

Rana Jaleel New York University

Rich Moser Rutgers AAUP-AFT

Malini Cadambi Service Employees International Union

Marcia Newfield City University of New York, PSC-CUNY


Chair, Discussant 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


Chair, Comment

Michael Pierce University of Arkansas

Social and Civil Rights Unionism: Chicago's Teamsters Local 743

Liesl Orenic Dominican University


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A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums

Bob Bussel University of Oregon

The Alliance for Labor Action: Another Kind of Federation? Civic, Social and Civil Rights Unionism among 'The Poor',1969-1972

Lisa Phillips Indiana State University


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)


Chair, Comment

Rose Imperato Remember the Triangle Fire CoalitionOrganizing Commemoration and Remembrance of the Triangle Factory Fire

Andi Sosin Remember the Triangle Fire CoalitionDaniel Levinson Wilk Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY)

The Clara Lemlich Awards for Social Activism

Rachel Bernstein LaborArtsEvelyn Jones Rich LaborArts, Shelley and Donald Rubin FoundationEsther Cohen LaborArts

Teaching Labor: Lessons from The Triangle Factory Fire Centennial

Rob Linne Adelphi University


Cecelia Bucki Fairfield University

Kenneth Germanson Wisconsin Labor History Society


Stephen Kass Greater New Haven Labor History Association


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


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


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Keith Joseph Service Employees International Union

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor Conference Room

Chair, Discussant

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 Paris II Panthéon-Assas University

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


Chair, Discussant

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 SUNY, Stony BrookHernán Pruden SUNY, Stony Brook

Trade Unions in the World of International Diplomacy: An Analysis of Trade Union Participation in GovernmentalDiplomacy in Denmark

Carsten Strøby Jensen University of Copenhagen


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 Working-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 Historyof 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


John Cicero City University of New York Law School

Harris Freeman Western New England University

Michael Goldfield Wayne State University

James Gray Pope Rutgers University Law School


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


Join LAWCHA for its annual membership meeting and luncheon on Saturday, June 8, at 12:15pm in the GCWEAuditorium. Speakers include Shelton Stromquist, LAWCHA President, Nelson Lichtenstein as chair of the HerbertGutman Prize for Best Dissertation committee, and Ileen DeVault as head of the Philip Taft Labor History BookAward committee. Musical guest Tom Juravich.

Members and friends of LAWCHA welcome to attend; RSVP Requi r ed


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


Chair, Introductions 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


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

Dan La Botz High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture (CTEA)

Richard Wells The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies

Christine Zeigler-MacPherson The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies


Chair, Discussant Penny Lewis The Murphy Institute, CUNY

Marina Sitrin CUNY Graduate Center

Dario Azzellini Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Luis Moreno-Caballud University of Pennsylvania


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Chair, Discussant

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 1968-69David 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


Chair, Discussant

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 Representationof Diversity

Carol Quirke SUNY, Old Westbury

Historical Memory and Commemoration as Activism: On Equal Terms

Susan Eisenberg Brandeis University



Leigh Campbell-Hale Fairview High School


Chair, Discussant

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


Tyisha Walker Local 35 UNITE-HERE, Board of Alderman

Major Ruth New Haven Works

Delphine Clyburn Board of Alderman


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Barbara Vereen Local 34, UNITE-HERE

Mary Reynolds New Haven Works


Chair, Comment

Robyn Spencer Lehman College

Socialist Feminists Organize: Boston and Chicago

Linda Gordon New York University

New York City Day Care Campaign 1976-1974

Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall SUNY, Old Westbury

Feminism, Coalition Politics, and Domestic Workers' Campaign for Minimum Wage

Premilla Nadasen Queens College, CUNY


Chair Jeff Eichler Retail Organizing Project, 2004-2012

Ava Farkas Living Wage NYC Campaign, 2009-2012

Edison Bond, Jr. Ella Baker Fellow, Micah Institute, New York Theological Seminary

Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition

Michael Yellin LRA Consulting

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 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

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

Where: The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, (@ 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10003 ( directions)

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 thelabor 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 tradeunions, and new forms of worker organization, drawing on organizing tactics and forms of collective action in whichimmigrants, people of color, and women workers have played central roles. These efforts will take note of thechallenges and opportunities that new movements face in the rapidly changing global neoliberal economic system.


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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 atour of the exhibition Activist New York, an exploration of the history of social activism in the city from the colonialera to the present. The exhibition shows that reform and radical movements that flourished in New York often hadnational implications. On issues as diverse as historic preservation, civil rights, wages, sexual orientation, andreligious freedom, New Yorkers have mobilized to advance fresh agendas. Using artifacts, photographs, audio andvisual 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, email Stephen Petrus.


Documents

LAWCHA Conference, _Rights, Solidarity, Justice_ NYC, June 6-8