LAWCHA News, Events, and OpEds
CFP: Southern Labor Studies Association, New Orleans (Deadline: 9/14/2012)
The Southern Labor Studies Association is soliciting panels for its 2013 conference in New Orleans, LA, to take place from March 7-9, 2013. The conference theme, the “Many Souths,” invites a broad range of panels on southern working-class history, while at the same time it asks participants to examine how we have conceptualized the region: as rural and/or urban; as a single region, or as multiple sub-regions, e.g. the Mountain South, Deep South, etc.; as part of the Caribbean, Gulf Coast, and/or Atlantic World; and as a region defined by particular sets of race, class, and gender relations. Continue reading
Gutman Prize Winner, Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, Writes for New York Times
Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, LAWCHA’s 2012 Gutman Prize Winner, recently wrote an OpEd piece for the New York Times! The piece draws much from her dissertation, entitled, “Emancipating the Child Laborer: Children, Freedom, and the Moral Boundaries of the Market in the United States, 1853-1938.” Her adviser at the University of Chicago was Thomas C. Holt.
Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, “Pitting Child Safety Against the Family Farm,” May 7, 2012.
Reed Fink Award Deadline May 15
One or more fellowship(s) of $250-$500 are awarded annually to individual(s) whose research in the Southern Labor Archives will lead to a book, article, dissertation, or other substantive product. The recipient will make a presentation about his/her research to the Georgia State University community and the fellowship amount will be awarded thereafter. Continue reading
Bread and Roses Centennial Symposium Report, by Janet Weaver
On the hundredth anniversary of the Bread and Roses textile strike, over 300 labor activists, researchers and community members gathered on April 28 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The strike, which began on January 11, 1912, was one of the transformative labor victories of the twentieth century. To this storied moment in U.S. labor history, symposium presenters brought new archival research and fresh insights into telling, teaching and interpreting the Bread and Roses strike in today’s world. Continue reading
Reflections on the Bread and Roses Academic Symposium, April 28, 2012
Immigrant Rights in Alabama
Yesterday, Alabama lawmakers refused to repeal the disastrous HB 56 despite the million dollars this failed experiment continues to cost the state every day. Incredibly, with very little time left in the legislative year, Senator Scott Beason unveiled an entirely new 63 page bill which he intends to substitute today for House Bill 658, an HB 56 “tweak bill” that has passed the House. Continue reading
Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) Conference, June 11-12
One of the principal goals of the Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is to create a space for the generation and exchange of fresh ideas and thinking among labor leaders, activists, scholars and students. A secondary goal is to connect scholars with practitioners where their expertise could play a key role in an organizing or legislative campaign. The June LRAN conference will thus focus on two intersecting areas of work: innovative organizing campaigns (not limited to union initiatives) that are either informed by cutting edge research or raise challenging questions researchers ought to explore further; and new research that sheds light on critical organizing issues. Continue reading
“How Class Works,” Stony Brook, New York, June 7 – 9
You are invivted to come to the How Class Works – 2012 conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012. Nearly 200 people from 15 countries on all continents except Antarctica will present in over 50 sessions – senior scholars and graduate students, labor and community activists, artists, all exploring ways in which class dynamics shape society and our lives, and how we can engage these class dynamics to improve the lives of working people.
Plenary sessions:
Thursday June 7, 7 p.m.: Jeffrey Clements, “Corporations Are Not People: Responding to the Supreme Court in Citizens United”
Friday June 8, 9 a.m.: “May Day in NYC – Occupy and Labor”
Nastaran Mohit, Domestic Workers United; Thisanjali Gongoda, Occupy Wall Street; Amy Muldoon, Communication Workers of American; Teresa Guttierrez, May 1st Coalition (tentative)
Saturday June 9, 9 a.m.: “The U.S. in 2012″ – a roundtable discussion with Bill Fletcher, Jr., Juan Gonzalez, Bob Herbert, Frances Fox Piven
See the full schedule with registration housing, and other information at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2012/
NOTE that early registration rates end at the end of business Monday April 30. Rates go up about 10% after that.
Thanks to Michael Zweig, director for the Center for Study of Working Class Life at SUNY – Stony Brook, for passing the information along!