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May 17, 18, and 19, 2007

at the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke University

Join us for an innovative dialogue on current issues facing the working class and their allies.  This conference will bring together scholars, students, social justice and union activists, policy makers and rank-and-file workers to explore the connections between contemporary challenges facing the working class and their historical context.  This gathering aims to enhance personal and organizational ties between those engaged in ongoing workplace and community organizing efforts and students and scholars whose work documents the long history of activism in the United States.

The key thematic areas for the conference will be:

  • The New Working Class:  Public Sector and Service Workers
  • Farm Labor & Immigration
  • Organizing Outside the Workplace
  • Environmental Justice
  • Intellectuals' Role in Labor Struggles
Five plenary sessions featuring round-table discussions among an academic, an activist, a policy maker and a rank-and-file worker, will each address one of the conference themes.  Panels, documentary presentations, and cultural programs will further explore the issues raised in the plenary sessions.

 

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Conference Program and Schedule (pdf)