HOW CLASS WORKS - 2010: Papers Presented at the Conference
A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook
June 3-5, 2010


Here you can find some of the papers that were presented at the conference. The numbers correspond to the session number in the conference schedule.

2.4. Calling the Labor Movement to Discover the Working Class
Bob Fitch, Former Union Organizer, Author: The Labor Left and Union Democracy
Joseph B. Atkins, Journalism, University of Mississippi: Calling for a Daily Newspaper Devoted to the Working Class

3. Opening Plenary Session: Larry Cohen, International President, Communications Workers of America: "Economic Crisis, Political Paralysis: What's the Working Class to Do?" (VIDEO)

4. Plenary Session: Right Wing Populism and the Working Class
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor, blackcommentator.com. Right-wing populism: The herpes in the system of racial capitalism
William K. Tabb, City University of New York. Right Wing Populism and the Working Class

5.3. Rank and File Research from the National Labor College
Eduardo Rosario, National Writers Guild: Dismantling The Manufacturing Clause: Another Victim of Deregulation

7.4 The Culture of De-industrialization
Christine J. Walley, Anthropology, MIT: Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter’s Story

10.4 Class Conflict in the Ivory Tower
Michelle M. Tokarczyk, English, Goucher College: So You Think You’ll Find Another Tenured Position?:  The Case for Fighting Where You Stand

10.6 Theories of Class
Hira Singh, Sociology, York University, Toronto, How Class Works in Caste: Trajectory of an Erroneous Discourse from Max Weber to Louis Dumont

 

12.3 The Language of Class in Politics
Robert M. Zecker, History, Saint Francis Xavier University: “Do You Take us for Kaffirs or Zulus?” Race, Labor and Housing Competition as Seen in the Slovak Immigrant Press