Labnet: Ann: Newberry Saturday Labor Symposium: Debating Lawrence Glickman's, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America]

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From: Daniel Greene <greened at newberry.org> 

The Newberry Library Seminar in Labor History

Co-sponsored by the History Departments of Northern Illinois  
University, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at  
Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Labor and  
Working Class History Association

* Saturday, November 14, 2009
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
The Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall
*

*Saturday New Book Symposium: Consumers---The Unknown Social Movement*
*Debating Lawrence Glickman's, Buying Power: A History of Consumer  
Activism in America (University of Chicago Press, 2009).*

/Featuring author Lawrence Glickman, University of South Carolina/

*Greeting and Introduction: Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago
Commentators:  Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin Madison; Adam  
Green, University of Chicago; Susan Levine, University of Illinois at  
Chicago; Nancy MacLean, Northwestern University; and Rick Perlstein,  
author of Nixonland *

Unlike other seminar meetings, during the Saturday symposium, seminar  
participants discuss a recently published book. Copies of Buying Power  
will be available for purchase in the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg  
Bookstore. Seminar attendees may also request a copy of the book's  
introduction by writing to scholl at newberry.org

Lunch will be provided for everyone who RSVPs to the seminar before  
November 6, 2009, so please do let us know if you plan to attend. If  
you do not RSVP by November 6, we will not be able to provide lunch.

Please e-mail Heather Radke at scholl at newberry.org, if you plan to
attend.