Labnet: CFP: North American Labor History Conference - 16-18 October 2008

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From: Janine Marie Lanza [mailto:ao1605 at wayne.edu] 

"Labor, Law and Justice"
Thirtieth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 16-18, 2008.

The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites 
proposals for sessions and papers on “Labor, Law and Justice” for our thirtieth annual
meeting. From slave rebellions, to labor protests and strikes, to fights over justice in the global labor market, issues of legal norms and claims to social and political justice have shaped the experiences of the working and popular classes. This year’s conference seeks to explore changing ideas of justice as they have been applied to the workplace, how workers and employers have used the concept of legality and fairness to stake out positions in the workplace and the labor market, how class (and by extension, race and gender) informs the experience of the criminal justice system and shapes the definition of justice in its various forms – legal, political, economic, and social.
The program committee encourages comparative and interdisciplinary scholarship from a
range of national and international contexts, the integration of public historians and
community and labor activists into conference sessions, and the use of differing session
formats. We welcome sessions that address the theme from perspectives of gender, race,
ethnicity, and sexuality.

Please submit panel and paper proposals (including 1-2 page abstracts and brief vitas or
biographical statements for all participants) by March 31, 2008, to:

Professor Janine Lanza, Coordinator, North American Labor History Conference
Department of History, 3094 Faculty Administration Building
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313/577-2525; Fax: 313 577-6987;
Email: ao1605 at wayne.edu
Faxed, mailed or emailed proposals accepted.


The North American Labor History Conference is sponsored by the Department of
History, the Walter P. Reuther Library, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and
Wayne State University.


Janine Lanza
Assistant Professor of History
Wayne State University

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