Labnet: LAWCHA 2009: Race, Labor and the City: Crises Old and New, May 28-31, Chicago IL

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[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor]

Don't miss this exciting conference, register now!
http://chi-lawcha09.indstate.edu <http://chi-lawcha09.indstate.edu>.

Race, Labor and the City: Crises Old and New 

Thursday, May 28 - Saturday, May 31, 2009 

Labor and Working-Class History Association and the 

Fund for Labor Culture and History

(Laborlore Conversations IV) 

Roosevelt University

430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 

With Plenaries and Workshops on:  Race, Labor and the Urban Crisis,
Laurie Green's Battling the Plantation Mentality, Working and Living
Behind Bars: the Politics and Economics of Mass Incarceration in Recent
US History, Big Box Labor: Local, Regional and Global Perspectives,
Gilded Age Chicago Revisited, Faculty as Activists, Oral History and
Labor History, Writing Labor History for the General Reader, Labor in
the 21st Century, as well as musical performances featuring
nationally-known artists including Betty Fikes,  Janet Bean, Jon
Langford and Bucky Halker, over 30 panels, and a Chicago Labor Trail Bus
Tour. 

A partial list of scholars and labor activists includes:  Mike Honey and
Kimberley  Phillips (president and president-elect of LAWCHA), Betty
Balanoff, Tom Balanoff (Director SEIU Local 1), Timuel Black, Eileen
Boris, Kevin Boyle, Bill Dempsey (UFCW), Linda Gordon, Jim Green, Laurie
Green, Julie Greene, James  Grossman, Andrew Kersten, Alice
Kessler-Harris, Katie Jordan (founding member of CLUW), Robert Korstad,
Alex Lichtenstein, Nelson Lichtenstein, Nancy MacLean, Juan Mora-Torres,
Bethany Moreton, Scott Nelson, David Roediger, Carl Smith, Larry Spivack
(Director AFSCME Council 31 and president, Illinois Labor History
Society), G. Flint Taylor (People's Law Office), Heather Thompson, James
Thwinda (Jobs with Justice), Joe Trotter, and Zaragosa Vargas.   

 

 

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Liesl Miller Orenic

Department of History and American Studies

Rosary College of Arts & Sciences

Dominican University

7900 W. Division St.

River Forest, IL 60305

 

lorenic at dom.edu

708.524.6981