The Labor and Working Class History Association and Southern Labor Studies present Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation: Contemporary Challenges in Historical Context

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.

Contact Information:


Please address proposals and papers to:
Max Krochmal, Executive Secretary
Labor and Working Class History Association
Box 90239
Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 613-7399
lawcha@duke.edu

 

Latin American Labor History Conference

The Latin American History Conference has been held annually since 1984. It was founded at Yale University under the sponsorship of Yale's Council on Latin American Studies. In its early years, the conference was held at Yale, Princeton or SUNY-Stony Brook. Since 1993, the conference has been held annually at Duke University under the sponsorship of Duke's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The conference is held each year on or around the third weekend of April and lasts two days. The principal goal of the conference has been to bring together in a relaxed, workshop atmosphere faculty and graduate students specializing in Latin American labor. While the major academic conferences such as those of the American Historical Association and the Latin American Studies Association have sessions on Latin American labor, they offer little room for the sort of informed, prolonged discussion that takes place at the Latin American Labor History Conference.