LAWCHA Conference, - Rights, Solidarity, Justice - NYC, June 6-8

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The version of the program below reflects the most updated information Joey Fink UNC Chapel Hill
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and incorrect room numbers. Please either use the below information for Laurie Green University of Texas,
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be available at the registration desk. Jim Gregory University of
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Clarence Lang University of Kansas
Chris Michael Graduate Center,
CUNY
Film Screening: The Condition of the Working Class Priscilla Murolo Sarah Lawrence
Wednesday, June 5, 6:30pm
College
Ryan Poe Duke University
Film Screening: Fuelling Poverty: A Documentary Film about
Jacob Remes SUNY Empire State
Occupy Nigeria
Thursday, June 6, 3:30pm - 5:15pm College
Shelton Stromquist University of
Opening Reception Iowa
Thursday, June 6, 5:15pm - 7:00pm Daniel Walkowitz New York
University
Plenary: The Assault on Labor and the Public Sector: Strategies
for Resistance in the Post-Election Environment
Thursday, June 6, 8:00pm
Reception in Honor of the University of Illinois Press' Working Class in American History Series and the
David Montgomery Book Prize
Friday, June 7, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Film Screening: With a Stroke of the Chaveta & Shift Change

Friday, June 7, 6:30pm
LAWCHA Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon
Plenary: Looking Forward: New Directions and Strategies for Labor

Saturday, June 8, 4:30 - 6:30pm
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Tour: Museum of the City of New York: Exhibit on Activist New York
Sunday, June 9, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Opening Session
Thursday, 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 1
Thursday, 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 2
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 Future
8151 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 3
Friday, 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 State
8143 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 4
Friday, 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 Early
Twentieth 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 5
Friday, 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 6
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 Country
Strike, 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 7
Saturday, 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 8
Saturday, 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 9
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 the
Working Class in England', a classic denunciation of the appalling living conditions for working people living at the
heart of the industrial revolution in Manchester, England. In 2012: a group of working class people from Manchester
and 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 the
first rehearsal to first night and situates their struggle to get the show on stage in the context of the daily struggles
of working people facing economic crisis and austerity politics.
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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/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
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 White
Primary 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-making
Illinois 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, Iowa
in 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 Twentieth
Century
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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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 fuel
subsidy management in Nigeria, Fuelling Poverty graphically captures the various contours of this debate and the
resilience of Nigerians in demanding change. It examines the effect of corruption on the country and the need for
Nigerians 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 Project
Marshall 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 Carlos
Mercado from the CUNY Center for Worker Education. The reception will also celebrate the opening of the Hurrican
Sandy Workers' exhibit, Unseen America.
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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 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?
Friday, June 7, 8:30 - 10:15am
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 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 Israeli
Apartheid
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, 1950-1970
Coreen 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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Working Class Composition and De-Composition in the 1970s: Full Employment, the Carceral State, and the Politics
of 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 Bragg
Kerry Taylor Massey University, New Zealand
Eric Fure-Slocum St. Olaf College
Michael Innis-Jimenez University of Alabama
Friday, June 7, 10:30am - 12:15pm
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
Paradigm
John 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, Liverpool
Scots '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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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
Jill 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 the
University 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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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 Police
Violence
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 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
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
17 of 29 6/6/2013 6:28 PM
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
Comment
Robert Parmet York College, City University of New York
New York's Garment Trucking Industry and the International 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
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
18 of 29 6/6/2013 6:28 PM
"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 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 Legislation
in 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
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 the
Cuban 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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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 Working
Class 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, Julie
Greene and William P. Jones, to our series board, joining Alice Kessler-Harris, James Barrett, and Nelson
Lichtenstein. This reception offers an occasion to celebrate recent publications in the series and announce ways the
series 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 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 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 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.
Saturday, June 8, 8:30 - 10:15am
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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 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
Chair, Discussant
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
21 of 29 6/6/2013 6:28 PM
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 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
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
22 of 29 6/6/2013 6:28 PM
Mario Mazzoni Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp

Susanna Blankley CASA/New Settlement
Gigi Peterson SUNY, Cortland

Conor Casey University of Washington, Seattle
Brendan Maslauskas Dunn SUNY, Cortland
Saturday, June 8, 10:30am - 12:15pm
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
23 of 29 6/6/2013 6:28 PM
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 Coalition
Organizing Commemoration and Remembrance of the Triangle Factory Fire
Andi Sosin Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition
Daniel Levinson Wilk Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY)
The Clara Lemlich Awards for Social Activism
Rachel Bernstein LaborArts
Evelyn Jones Rich LaborArts, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation
Esther 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
24 of 29 6/6/2013 6:28 PM
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 Brook
Hernán Pruden SUNY, Stony Brook
Trade Unions in the World of International Diplomacy: An Analysis of Trade Union Participation in Governmental
Diplomacy 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 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
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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Join LAWCHA for its annual membership meeting and luncheon on Saturday, June 8, at 12:15pm in the GCWE
Auditorium. Speakers include Shelton Stromquist, LAWCHA President, Nelson Lichtenstein as chair of the Herbert
Gutman Prize for Best Dissertation committee, and Ileen DeVault as head of the Philip Taft Labor History Book
Award committee. Musical guest Tom Juravich.
Members and friends of LAWCHA welcome to attend; RSVP Required
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 1968-69
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
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 Representation
of 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
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 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. These efforts will take note of the
challenges 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 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, email Stephen Petrus.
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Film Screening: With a Stroke of the Chaveta & Shift Change

LAWCHA Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon

Plenary: Looking Forward: New Directions and Strategies for Labor

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

Location: CWE Auditorium

Screener Dan La Botz New Politics

Location: CWE Room 7-15

Location: CWE Room 7-52

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8159

Daisy Chung Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York

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

Location: CWE Auditorium

Gregory Zucker CUNY Graduate Center

Location: CWE Room 7-15

Irina Olimpieva Center for Independent Social Research in St. Petersburg

Location: CWE Room 7-19

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

Location: CWE Room 7-21

Location: CWE Room 7-22

Location: CWE Room 7-27

Location: CWE Room 7-49

Kenneth Germanson Wisconsin Labor History Society

Location: CWE Room 7-51

Susan Rosenthal Physician, Activist, Author

Location: CWE Room 7-52

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8159

Chair Pennee Bender American Social History Project

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8162

Omoyele Sowore Founder SaharaReporters.com

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

Location: CWE Auditorium

Frank Deale CUNY Law School

Location: CWE Room 7-15

Location: CWE Room 7-19

Location: CWE Room 7-21

Location: CWE Room 7-21

Location: CWE Room 7-22

Location: CWE Room 7-50

Location: CWE Room 7-52

Chair, Comment Beth Robinson University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Jacob Glicklich University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8150

Chair Daniel Katz AFL-CIO National Labor College

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8151

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8162

Location: CWE Auditorium

Location: Eisner-Lubin Auditorium, New York University

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

Location: CWE Auditorium

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8143

Clarence Lang University of Kansas

Location: CWE Room 7-19

Ava Baron Rider University

Location: CWE Room 7-22

Location: CWE Room 7-27

Location: CWE Room 7-50

Aids Clincs Organize: The Fight Within the Fight

Location: CWE Room 7-52

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8151

Location: BMCC, 8th Floor, Room 8159

John W. McKerly University of Iowa

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