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Thursday, May 30^th

• 1:30pm-4:30pm
  Board Meeting
• 5:30pm-6:30pm
  Reception
• 6:30pm-8:00pm
  Gross Hall 107
  Opening Plenary: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Future of American Workers: The Moral Monday Movement Goes National
  Introduction
  Roz Pelles,
  Vice-President, Repairers of the Breach and former Director of Civil, Human, and Women’s Rights Department, AFL-CIO
  Keynote Address
  Reverend Dr. William J. Barber,
  President & Sr. Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina

Friday, May 31^st

• 8:30-10:00am

• Sanford 03
  Wartime Strikes
  Businessman Credibility and Worker Solidarity in World War I-era Kansas City

  Jeff Stilley, University of Missouri

  The Asbestos Strike of 1916: The First Major Confrontation Between an International Union and an Emerging Catholic Labour Movement in Quebec, Canada

  Geoffrey Ewen, York University

  Re-Inventing Radicalism: Women Workers in the Great War

  Gary Girod, University of Houston

  Their Minds Were Poisoned: Montana’s War Years and the IWW Menace, 1914-1920

  Rich Aarstad, Montana Historical Society

  Chair/Commentator: Rachel Batch, Widener University
• Rubenstein 151
  German Labour History on the Move: New Perspectives on Labour History, Transnationalism and Migration from Germany
  A Return of a Many-headed Hydra? Social Movements, Violence and Fear in Three Port Cities Hamburg, London, Seattle, 1900-1920s

  Klaus Weinhauer, University of Bielefeld

  Contested Papers: Identity and Work Documents for Labourers and Servants in the Habsburg Empire

  Sigrid Wadauer, University of Vienna

  Artisans on the Move, the Early German Labour Movement and Transnationalism, 1830-1848

  Juergen Schmidt, Humboldt University

  Chair: Stefan Berger, Ruhr University
  Commentator: Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan
• Sanford 07
  Narrativity and Policy: Migrant Workers from the Progressive Era to the Great Depression
  The Worker: Walter Wyckoff and His Experiment in Reality

  Beau Driver, University of Colorado

  Paul Taylor’s Field Findings Concerning Mexican Labour in the Interwar United States: Insights from the Archive

  Naomi Calnitsky, Independent Scholar

  Welfare for the Wanderer?: Deservingness and Transiency during the Great Depression

  Ashley H. Dorn, University of Iowa

  Chair/Commentator: Tobias Higbie, UCLA
• Rubenstein 149
  Social Unionism and the City
  Housing for Ourselves: The ACWA and the Struggle for Affordable Housing in New York City

  J Cephas, Northeastern University

  Make Librarians Seem Dangerous: AFSCME Local 1930’s Response to Fiscal Crisis and the Place of the Library in the Neoliberal City

  Julia Rabig, Dartmouth College

  Striking the Tents: Creating and Laboring in a Circus City

  Andrea Ringer, Tennessee State University

  Chair/Commentator: Karen Miller, LaGuardia Community College
• Sanford 223
  Corporate Consolidation and Labor Conflicts in the Early 20th Century United States
  Visions of Party from Radical Republicanism to Debsian Socialism

  Daniel Schlozman, Johns Hopkins University

  Practices of Comparing in Labor Conflicts, 1910-1915

  Christopher Schulte-Schueren, Bielefeld University

  Harvesting Horizontal Integration: Labor Relations, Corporate Strategy, and the Great Merger Movement, 1890-1902

  Robert Kaminski, University of Chicago

  A Sound and True Economics: the Research Department of the American Federation of Labor and the Origins of Union Experts, 1910s-1920s

  Jiao Jiao, Shanghai University

  Chair/Commentator: Jarod Roll, University of Mississippi
• Sanford 05
  Lightning Round: Rethinking Labor’s Challenges and Opportunities in the 1970s
  Socialist Horizons in the Struggle for Full Employment: the 1970s

  Michael Dennis, Acadia University

  Policing ‘Economic Migrants’: Haitians, Incarceration, and Labor in Miami, 1972-1980

  Brianna Nofil, Columbia University

  Extending the Timeline of Deindustrialization

  Jackson Allison, University of Massachusetts

  The Shock Absorbers of Neoliberalism: Women Public-Services Providers and Government Retrenchment

  Jane Berger, Moravian College

  Chair/Comment: H. Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa
• Sanford 07
  Internal and International Crossings of Workers Across the Globe
  Mapping Migratory Strikebreakers in the Printing Trades: Mobility and Kinship in a Labor Community

  Bridget Burke, University of Oklahoma

  Canadian Commuters and the Politics of the US-Canada Borderland, 1920s-30s

  Thomas Klug, Marygrove College

  Chair/Comment: Caroline Waldron Merithew, Associate Professor of History, University of Dayton
• Rubenstein 153
  Widening the Racial Wealth Gap: Black Farmers & Land Loss in the US South
  Personal Story: The Provosts

  Angela Provost, Provost Farm LLC

  Wenceslaus Provost Jr., Provost Farm LLC

  Comments/Historical Context

  Andrew Kahrl, University of Virginia

  Jermaine Thibodeaux, University of Texas at Austin

  Intro: Keri Leigh Merritt, Independent Scholar
  Chair: Adrienne Petty, College of William & Mary

• 10:15-11:45am

• Sanford 05
  Film and Roundtable: Talking for Justice! Maria Moreno and Restoring the Legacy of Migrant Women’s Activism
  Laurie Coyle, documentary filmmaker and writer
  Devra Weber, University of California-Riverside
  Mily Trevino Sauceda, Executive Director and co-founder, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (National Alliance of Farmworker Women)
  Eladio Bobadilla, Duke University
  Leticia Zavala, organizer, executive board Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
• Rubenstein 149
  Families and Radicalism: Oral Histories, Archives, Forgotten Stories and Narratives of Resistance
  The Memorial Day Massacre: Stories They Never Told Me, Pictures I Couldn’t Help But See

  Carol Quirke, SUNY Old Westbury

  Resisting Nostalgia: Revelations of the Family Archive

  Michele Fazio, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

  Narratives of Parental Influence in Activist Life Stories: Breaking With/or Carrying on Family Traditions

  Paul Mishler, Indiana University

  Chair/Commentator: Marcella Bencivenni, Hostos College and City University of New York
• Sanford 102
  Radical Politics and Working-Class Electoral Mobilization in the Depression-Era North
  “Revolt of the City”: Working-Class Mobilization and the Politics of Republican Accommodation in the 1930s

  Kristoffer Smemo, California State University-Dominguez Hills

  Ballot Box Radicalism and the Limits of the City: Pennsylvania Socialists in the Great Depression, 1927-1937

  Ian Gavigan, Rutgers University

  Socialism, Communism, and Anti-communism in the Cream City: Party conflicts and the working class in Depression-era Milwaukee

  Michael Billeaux, University of Wisconsin

  Chair/Commentator: Cecelia Bucki, Fairfield University
• Sanford 07
  Meet the Journal Editors: Getting Published
  Submitting to the Pacific Historical Review

  Marc Rodriguez, Portland State University

  Submitting to Labor: Studies in Working Class History

  Leon Fink, University of Illinois Chicago

• Sanford 04
  Roundtable: Working-Class Political Engagement in North Carolina, Past to Present
  Nick Carnes, Political Science, Duke University
  Jillian Johnson, founder of Durham for All, City Councilwoman, and Mayor pro tem for Durham
  MaryBe McMillan, President of North Carolina branch of the AFL-CIO
  Chair/Commentator: Gunther Peck, History, Duke University
• Rubenstein 151
  Working-Class Activism and the Promise of Progressive Politics
  Economics is What Carries You: Baltimore Service Workers and Economic Citizenship in the 1990s

  Dennis Deslippe, Franklin and Marshall College

  Engaging Workers: Anxieties over Working-Class Apathy & Action in Postwar Labor Cities

  Eric Fure-Slocum, St. Olaf College

  Road Not Taken: ACORN’s Campaign for Working-Class Political Representation

  Marissa Chappell, Oregon State University

  Chair/Commentator: Tula Connell, Independent Scholar
• Sanford 150
  Pushing Up from the Margins: Race, Gender, and Migration in Global Worker Struggles
  The Invisible Army: Third-Country Nationals and the U.S. Military in Iraq, 2003-Present

  Holger Droessler, Smith College

  Rallying for Rights: Black Garment Workers and the Push for a Permanent FEPC

  Janette Gayle, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  Organizing the High Seas: Race, Reading, and Radicalism Among Multiracial Ship Crews

  Adam LoBue, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Working-Class Radicalism in Colonial Madras: Growth of Working-Class Consciousness during 1920-1947

  Venugopal Reddy Kanchi, Pondicherry University

  Chair/Commentator: Daniel Katz, SUNY, Alfred State College
• Rubenstein 200
  Bodies at Work
  Blue-collar Patients and the Making of the Care Economy in Pittsburgh

  Gabriel Winant, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  The Only Urine Sample You’ll Get From Me is For A Taste Test:” The War on Drugs and Biometric Surveillance of American Workers

  Jeremy Milloy, Trent University

  Water for Copper: Water Scarcity and Class Struggle in Early-Twentieth-Century Arizona

  Emma Teitelman, University of Cambridge

  Cash and Land, Homesteaders and Pensioners: (Dis)ability and Labor-Based State Welfare Schemes in the Late Nineteenth Century United States

  Casey Hedstrom, Princeton University

  Chair/Commentator: Karin Shapiro, Duke University
• Sanford 223
  When Workers Speak: Oral History in Working-Class Community Research
  Misremembering Coal: The Ludlow Massacre and the 1927-1928 Columbine Strike

  Leigh Campbell-Hale, Independent Scholar

  Chicanos without Anglos: The Chicano Movement in Laredo, Texas

  Jasmine Delgadillo, Texas A&M International University

  Fighting for Farmworker Higher Education: An Oral History of Migrant Programs at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

  Andrew Hazelton, Texas A&M International University

  Chair/Commentator: Alyssa Ribeiro, Allegheny College
• Sanford 05
  From The New South To The New Deal: Labor and Working Class Culture, 1919-1931
  The Boarders’ Revolt Of 1932

  Travis Byrd, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

  A Burning Question: Unionism and Southern Fundamentalists in the Great Depression

  Anderson Rouse, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

  The Quest For Streetcar Unionism In The Carolina Piedmont, 1919-1922

  Jeffery M. Leatherwood, American Military College

  Chair/ Commentator: Ken Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University
• Sanford 153
  Migrant Farmworkers and the Sources of Workers’ Power
  Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers at the Heart of U.S. Empire

  Ismael García Colón, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center-CUNY

  La Causa in Translation: The UFW’s Organization of Florida Citrus Workers, 1972 to 1990

  Terrell Orr, University of Georgia

  It’s Like Slavery Time: A Seasonal Farmworker’s Precedent-Setting Fight for Personal Labor Mobility, 1980

  Karin Zipf, Eastern Carolina University

  Chair/Comment: Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia
• 12:00pm-1:45pm
  Fleishman Commons, Sanford School
  Lunch and LAWCHA Membership Meeting

• 2:00pm-3:15pm

• Rubenstein 149
  Reading the Margins of the Party Paper: New Methodologies in Mexican Radical History
  Radical Realism, Anarchist Art, and the Artists of the Partido Liberal Mexicano’s Regeneración

  Rosalia Romero, Duke University

  Mexican Radicalism, Spanish Exiles and Revolutionary Internationalism in the Archives

  Kevan Aguilar, University of California-San Diego

  Preserving Prejudice: Archives and Sexual Politics in Mexico

  Robert Franco, Duke University

  Chair/Commentator: Dr. Alex Aviña, Arizona State University
• Sanford 223
  Roundtable: Teaching Women’s Labor History
  Chair: Sarah McNamara, Texas A&M University
  Keona K. Ervin, University of Missouri
  Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi
  Katherine Turk, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  Emily E. LB. Twarog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Jessica Wilkerson, University of Mississippi
• Sanford 05
  Roundtable: The Inability to Move: What Historians can Learn from Economists about Unfree Labor
  Keri Leigh Merritt, Independent Scholar
  Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
  Marshall Steinbaum, Roosevelt Institute
• Sanford 200
  Emergency: Current Threats to Democracy and Worker Rights in Brazil
  How Workers Came to Change the World, or at Least Brazil: Who’s Afraid of Trade Unionist and Former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva?

  John French, Duke University

  The Fight Against the Ongoing Brazilian Coup D’etat since the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 201

  Alexandre Fortes, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro

  Worker and Labor Rights Under Attack

  Paulo Fontes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

  Subalterns and Counter-hegemonic Struggle: a Comparative Analysis of the History of Two Strikes in Fortaleza, Brazil, 1967-1968

  Marcelo Henrique Bezerra Ramos, Universidade Federal Fluminense

  Chair: Wesley Hogan, Duke University Center for Documentary Studies
• Sanford 102
  The Dramatic Media’s Representations of Workers, Unions and Labor Conflict in 1950s America
  Class Condescension or Affectionate Solidarity? Representation of Labor in 1950s American Musical Theater

  Eric Kaufman, Ohio State University

  Waterfronts and Garment Jungles: Reconsidering Unions and Gangsters in Postwar Film

  Kathy Newman, Carnegie Mellon University

  Framing Corruption and Conflict for Audience: A Screenwriter’s Process

  Catherine Rios, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

  Commentator: Lisa Phillips, Indiana State University
  Chair: David Witwer, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg
• Sanford 07
  Labor Histories of Disaster
  The Labor Politics of Cholera in Postemancipation Jamaica

  Christienna Fryar, University of Liverpool

  Black Labor and Red Cross Recovery after the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893

  Caroline Grego, University of Colorado-Boulder

  Anything We Need: The Role of All-Hazard Inmate Firefighters in Emergency and Disaster Response

  J. Carlee Purdum, Louisiana State University

  Chair/Commentator: Jacob Remes, New York University
• Sanford 03
  Rethinking 1919 After 100 Years: Labor Revolt and Repression in the U.S. and Beyond
  Chair: Kenyon Zimmer, University of Texas-Arlington
  Julie Greene, University of Maryland-College Park
  Jennifer Luff, University of Durham
  Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University
  Craig Heron, York University
• Sanford 04
  Approaching the Public Sector in the Late Twentieth Century
  The Intimacies of Home: Regulated Housing, Domestic Space, and At-Home Care in the Era of AIDS

  Salonee Bhaman, Yale University

  Breaking Bad: Teachers’ Unions, Racial Inequality and the Rise of the Right in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965-1985

  Eleni Schirmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  The “Poor Man’s University” and the War on Poverty: Public Libraries Confront Social Inequality

  Jeff Wheeler, University of Illinois at Chicago

  The Public Hospital and the Safety-Net Welfare State

  Amy Zanoni, Rutgers University

  Commentator: Nancy MacLean, Duke University
  Chair: William Jones, University of Minnesota
• Sanford 151
  The Adjunct Revolt: Organizing in the Academy
  Workers Control in the Academy: Some Considerations in Light of Graduate Worker Organizing at Columbia University

  Jason Resnikoff, Columbia University

  Management Consultants in the Academy: Clerical Organizing at Boston University

  Amanda Walter, Wayne State University

  Chair/Commentator: Tula Connell, Independent Scholar

• 3:30pm-4:45pm

• Sanford 04
  Southern Latinidades: New Directions in the Nuevo South
  Chair: Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia
  Perla Guerrero, University of Maryland
  Cecilia Márquez, New York University
  Yalidy Matos, Rutgers University
  Sarah McNamara, Texas A&M University
  Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, Yale University
• Sanford 150
  Culture and Working-Class Narratives
  Medicine for all Tired Trade Unionists: American Unions and Theatre, 1920-1950

  Lisa Milner, Southern Cross University

  Oral History: Working Class Communities, Remembering Place and Practice

  Ron Lambert, Federation University Australia-Gippsland

  Speed Up Will Set You Free: The Automation Narrative in the Postwar United States

  Jason Resnikoff, Columbia University

  The Changing News Narrative about U.S. Workers, 1960-2000

  Christopher Martin, University of Northern Iowa

  Media, Trade Unions and the Italian Populists Venture

  Francesco Nespoli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

  Commentator: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois
• Rubenstein 149
  Roundtable: Revisiting AFL-CIO Interventionist Activities in Latin America
  El Golpe:The Coup at Ford Mexico 1989/1990

  Rob Mckenzie, UAW International Staff, retired

  AFL-CIA: Examining AIFLD’s Extensive Role in the Overthrow of Salvador Allende

  Ruth Needleman, Indiana University

  Examining My Brother Mike Hammer’s AIFLD Files: Revisiting the role of the AFL-CIO in subverting the working class and peasant movements in Latin America

  Frank Hammer, UAW International Staff, retired

  Chair/Commentator: Aviva Chomsky, Salem State University
• Rubenstein 151
  Roundtable: Taking Labor History Home: Rewards, Challenges, Opportunities
  Chair: Priscilla Murolo, Sarah Lawrence College
  Ana Avendaño, United Way Worldwide
  Toni Gilpin, Labor Historian, Writer
  Sandra Jeong Lane, Communication Workers of America
  Sarah Markey, NEA Rhode Island, The Collective
  Kate Shaughnessy, Leadership Development Coordinator, AFL-CIO
• Rubenstein 153
  Roundtable: Women and Workplace Activism in the Postwar U.S.: Persistent Efforts to Move Systems
  Organizing While Marginalized: Gloria Maldonado and Lucy Sledge in the Textile and Garment Industry, 1960s-1970s

  Aimee Loiselle, UConn, Storrs and Wesleyan University

  African-American Women and Workplace Discrimination in the 1970s and 1980s

  Traci Parker, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

  Claiming Veterans’ Status: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II in the 1960s-1970s

  Sarah Myers, Saint Francis University

  Household Technicians and Housewives: Liberation Movements and Domestic Labor in the Civil Rights Era

  Lindsay Bartkowski, Temple University

  Communications Workers of America: Fighting Call Center Outsourcing in the 1990s

  Debbie Goldman, University of Maryland

  Organizing on the Margins: The National Domestic Workers Union of America and the Roots of Intersectional Labor Activism in the 1970s

  Shannon Dade, Savannah College of Art and Design

  Chair: Marcia Walker-McWilliams, Lone Star College
• Sanford 03
  I was in the Presence of Courage: Labor Organizing After Freedom Summer
  Newlywed Learning to Be a Wife

  Diane Crothers

  The Challenges of Labor Organizing

  Nan Grogan Orrock

  Organizational Roots of the Whiteville Project

  Gene Guerrero

  Being White and Male after Freedom Summer

  Dick Landerman

  Chair/Commentator: Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina
• Rubenstein 200
  The Work of Freedom: Recent Histories of Revanchism and Resistance at the Grassroots
  Resisting Austerity through School-Community Alliances

  Nick Juravich, New-York Historical Society

  Federalism and Policing Under the First White President

  Will Tchakirides, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Rhetorics and Realities of the Militarized Border

  John Terry, South Texas College

  Digital Boots on the Ground: How a Conservative Eco-system Fuels Trump

  Jen Schradie, Sciences Po-Paris

  Building a Broad-Based Labor Community for Worker Resistance

  Naomi R Williams, Rutgers University

  Chair/Commentator: Joseph Walzer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Sanford 223
  Labor History as Collaborative Intellectual Work: A Roundtable to Honor Leon Fink and Susan Levine
  Jeffrey Helgeson, Texas State University
  Scott Nelson, University of Georgia
  Emily E. LB. Twarog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Gregory Kealey, University of New Brunswick
  Sarah Rose, University of Texas-Arlington
  Will Jones, University of Minnesota
• Sanford 102
  Taking Labor History Public
  Recovering the Labor History of Child Care in the 1970s

  Richard Anderson, The Pennsylvania State University

  Places of Labor as Engines for Activism

  Rachel Donaldson, The College of Charleston

  Labor History and the National Park Service: Reporting from the Field

  Eleanor Mahoney, National Park Service

  Chair/Commentator: Kit Smemo, California State University-Dominguez Hills
• Sanford 07
  Gender and the CIO: Rethinking Women’s Union Organizing in the Industrial Union Movement
  “Democratic Initiatives:” Black Women’s Organizing under the CIO

  Jenny Carson, Ryerson University

  Marginalization at the Center: Katherine Ellickson and the Making of the CIO’s Postwar Program

  Kristina Fuentes, London School of Economics

  We Found We Had Many Friends in Common:” Miss Lucy of the CIO and Her Middle-Class Allies

  Mary M. Báthory Vidaver, University of Mississippi

  Chair/Commentator: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
• Sanford 05
  Organized Labor and Workers’ Education, Past and Present
  Books for Labor: The UAW’s Education Program and the Printed Word in the 1930s and 1940s

  Dominique Daniel, Oakland University

  Union Rivals, Union Games: The Sports Recreational Programs of the Communist-led Local 600 and the Socialist-led West Side Locals of the UAW in the 1930s and 40s

  James Robinson, Northeastern University

  Some Reflections on Teaching Labor History to Union Members after 2016

  John Lepley, United Steelworkers

  Chair/Commentator: Tobias Higbie, UCLA
• 4:45pm-5:45pm
  Penn Pavilion
  Reception
• 6:00pm-7:30pm
  Penn Pavilion
  Plenary: Gender, Sex, and Enslavement Across the Americas
  Tera Hunter, Princeton University

  Yesenia Barragan, Dartmouth College/Rutgers University

  Sasha Turner, Quinnipiac University

  Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and The Library Company of Philadelphia Queens College-CUNY

  Chair: Thavolia Glymph, Duke University

Saturday, June 1^st

• 8:30-10:00am

• Sanford 07
  Digital Labor History Incubator: Workshop on Historical Sources as Data
  James Gregory, University of Washington
  Tobias Higbie, UCLA
  Vilja Hulden, University of Colorado
  Chair: Vilja Hulden, University of Colorado Boulder
• Sanford 03
  Labor(ing) on the Margins in the Postwar United States
  Safe Streets, Safe Cities”: Regulating Street Vending in New York City, 1965

  Jess Bird, CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies

  Fighting “the Real Enemy”: Mexican Americans, Undocumented Workers, and The Struggle for Immigrants Rights after 1965

  Eladio Bobadilla, Duke University

  Latino Radicals and the Communist Party in Postwar America: A case study of oral histories

  Joshua Morris, Wayne State University

  The Union’s (Sweat) Shops: Organizing Garment Workers in New York’s Chinatowns at the turn of the 21st Century

  Minju Bae, Temple University

  Chair/Commentator: Lane Windham, Georgetown University
• Sanford 04
  A People’s History of Emergent Movements – And Our Roles in Them
  La Lucha Sigue: The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in Deep South Texas

  Claudia Rueda, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

  Unite and Strike for Basic Needs: Chicago Hotel Workers and the 2018 Hotel Strike

  Emily E. LB. Twarog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  March for Our Lives: New Faces Confront Old Challenges

  Aaron Fountain, Indiana University-Bloomington

  The Long History of #MeToo: Movement Building against Sexual Harassment and Assault

  Beth Robinson, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

  Teachers’ Strikes: The ABCs of Movement Building

  Tom Alter, Texas State University-San Marcos

  “No Jobs on a Dead Planet”: Environmental Movements and the Fight for Our Future

  Dawson Barrett, Del Mar College

  Moderator and Chair: Paul Ortiz, University of Florida
• Sanford 102
  Movement, Cultural Identity, and Class in Contemporary Television
  “How Could I Ever Compete?”: Adolescence, Educational Disparity, and Resistance in Orange is the New Black’s “Sing It, White Effie”

  Allison Estrada-Carpenter, Texas A&M University

  Moving Up: Neoliberalism, Place, and Sexuality in Queer Eye

  Landon Sadler, Texas A&M University

  Black (Working-Class) Blues in Disney’s The Proud Family

  Nicole Jackson Wilson, Texas A&M University

  Chair/Commentator: Michael D. Innis-Jiménez, The University of Alabama
• Sanford 150
  An Enduring Dialectic: Labor, Class, and Racial Identity Across Time and Space in the Post-Civil War United States
  Walking Gendered Whiteness: Parades, Irish Workers, and (De)legitimized Power in Postbellum New York City

  Emma Rothberg, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

  A Gray Area: Racial Reformation in Southern Labor Organizing After the 1960s Civil Rights Movement

  Jennifer Standish, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

  Unholy Gospel: The Radical Songs Of The Industrial Workers Of The World

  Ben Fortun, Columbia University

  Commentator: David Zonderman, North Carolina State
  Chair: Shannon Eaves, College of Charleston
• Sanford 05
  Creative Responses to Attacks on Labor in the 1970s and early 1980s: Textile Workers, Farm Workers, Labor Activists, and New Left Corporate Researchers
  Severing the Ties: Strategic Research and the Making of ACTWU’s J. P. Stevens Corporate Campaign, 1974-1980

  Grace Davie, Queens College

  Sparks at Twilight: Union Elections in Southern California’s Vineyards and the (Denied) Promise of Utopian Futures, 1977-83

  Christian Paiz, University of California-Berkeley

  Workers’ Rights, Corporate Responsibility, and the Carolina Brown Lung Association in the 1970s South

  Joey Fink, High Point University

  Commentator: Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
• Sanford 223
  Across Piney Woods, Delta, and Texas Landscapes: African American Mobility within the South
  The Hardest Work I Ever Did: Black Laborers and Peonage in the Missouri Delta

  Heidi Dodson, University at Buffalo

  Movement, Radicalism, and Culture in the Piney Woods

  David Mac Marquis, College of William & Mary

  Laboring in the Lone Star State: African American Female Domestics in Texas, 1890-1940

  Camesha Scruggs, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Arkansas Fever: The Migrant Roots of Rural Black Protest in the New Cotton South

  Story Matkin-Rawn, University of Central Arkansas

  Chair/Commentator: Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Bridgewater State University
• Sanford 153
  Waves of Revolution: Transpacific Radicals and the Struggles Against Capitalist Empires
  Imagining a Revolutionary Community: Crisanto Evangelista and Radical Internationalism

  Allan Lumba, Virginia Tech University

  From Brussels to Batangas: Communist, Labor, and Anti-imperial Politics in the Interwar Era

  Colleen Woods, University of Maryland-College Park

  Sen Katayama, a Transpacific Radical

  Hiroaki Matsusaka, University of Michigan

  Chair/Commentator: Karen Miller, CUNY-Laguardia
• Sanford 151
  Accommodating Difference: Working-Class Culture and Organizing Between the Wars
  T-Bone Slim: Singing from the Shadows

  John Westmoreland, Independent Researcher

  Beyond Jimmie Higgins: An Examination of Ben Hanford’s Rhetorical Contributions to the 20th Century American Working Class

  Stephanie Riley, University of South Carolina

  Physically unfit or highly employable? Debating Invisible Disabilities, Employability, and Veterans’ Rehabilitation after the Great War

  Sarah Rose, University of Texas-Arlington

  Chair/Commentator: Jon Free, Duke University
• Sanford 200
  Anti-Racist Workers’ Organizing in the era of Civil Rights
  Rise, Fall, and Rise of Anti-racism in Manchester, 1944-1969

  Geoff Brown, Independent Scholar

  Maintaining Jim Crow Craft Unionism in the Civil Rights Era: Showdown at Hunts Point Terminal Market

  Christopher Hayes, Rutgers University

  Striking for Respect: Black Women Hospital Workers in Charleston

  Jewell Debnam, Morgan State University

  Chair/Commentator: Christina Greene, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 10:15am-11:45am

• Sanford 223
  Workshop: How to Write Opinion Pieces for the Mainstream Press and Media
  Lane Windham, Georgetown University
  Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California at Santa Barbara
• Rubenstein 200
  Mexicans in the Great Plains: Migration, Labor, Activism, and the Making of Home
  Mexicans in the Making of the Modern Southern Plains

  Joel Zapata, Southern Methodist University

  ‘Little Texas’ to ‘Little Chihuahua’: Mexican Migration and Immigrant Rights Organizing in Eastern New Mexico

  Aimee Villarreal, Our Lady of the Lake University and Marina Piña, Somos Un Pueblo Unido-Roswell

  Mobility on the Plains: Mexican Seasonal Labor and Strategies of Persistence in Kansas and Nebraska, 1900-1940

  Bryan Winston, Saint Louis University

  Chair/Commentator: Perla Guerrero, University of Maryland
• Sanford 07
  American Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism and Working-Class Internationalism during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  The Making of a Radical: Agnes Smedley and the Transnational Movement to End British Rule in India, 1912-1919

  David Brundage, University of California-Santa Cruz

  Must They Go? American Socialism and the Racialization of Chinese Labor in the United States, 1876-1890

  Lorenzo Costaguta, University of Birmingham

  Mapping out the Horizons of Internationalism: Class Formation, Race, and the National Debate on Immigration & Immigration Restriction, 1896 to 1924

  Kyle Pruitt, University of Maryland-College Park

  Chair/Commentator: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University
• Rubenstein 149
  International Influences: US Labor and Economic Policy in a Transnational Context
  Development, the Dollar Gap, and the CIO Response to the Private Investment Imperative in US International Economic Policy, 1949-1954

  Melanie Sheehan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

  Translating Equality: Scandinavian Active Labor Market Policy in the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, 1961-1963

  Byron Rom-Jensen, Aarhus University

  ‘Not this NAFTA!’: American Labor and the Politics of Globalization in the 1990s

  Jacqueline Brandon, Princeton University

  Chair/Commentator: Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University
• Rubenstein 151
  Controlling Internal Migration: Class, Identity, and Space in Capitalist Economies
  Policing Footloose Rebels: Internal Migration in the Early Twentieth-Century Pacific Northwest

  Betsy Pingree, Boston College

  Miami’s Winter Playground Blues: Home Labor Protectionism and the Hobo Express, 1926-1937

  Thomas Castillo, Coastal Carolina University

  Chair/Commentator: Toby Higbie, University of California-Los Angeles
• Sanford 04
  Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area: Author Meets Critics
  Keona Ervin, University of Missouri
  Elizabeth Esch, University of Kansas
  Robert Korstad, Duke University
  Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
  Klaus Weinhauer, University of Bielefeld
  Author Response: Peter Cole, Western Illinois University
• Sanford 102
  Labor and Radical History: Arguments for a Usable Past
  Intersectional Working-Class Organizing in the YWCA, 1910s-1940s

  Dorothea Browder, Western Kentucky University

  The Radical Past in Public History

  Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University

  Silk Stockings and Socialism: How Philadelphia’s Hosiery Workers Merged Popular Culture, Community, and the Fight for Social Justice

  Sharon McConnell-Sidorick, Independent Scholar

  Chair/Commentator: Jonathan Kissam, United Electrical, Radio, Machine Workers
• Sanford 03
  Perspectives on Teamsters History In the 1930s, the Civil Rights Era and the Recent Past
  Chicago Teamsters Local 705: Rank and File Reform and Recent Teamsters History

  Robert Bruno, University of Illinois

  Teamsters Local 878 and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas’s Black Belt, 1964-1944

  Michael Pierce, University of Arkansas

  Reconsidering the Teamsters of the 1930s: A Second Look at Daniel Tobin’s Famous “rubbish” Comment

  David Witwer, Penn State Harrisburg

  Chair: Eric Arnesen, George Washington University
  Commentator: Liesl Orenic, Dominican University
• Rubenstein 153
  Lightning Round: Global Women’s Work
  Mary Frederickson, Emory University
  Susan Levine, Emerita, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Beth English, Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
  Xiodan Zhang, City University of New York’s York College
  Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Sanford 02
  Insurgent Traditions, Radical Unions, and Coalition-Building in Early Twentieth-Century North America
  Black America’s New Deal Congressmen: Ghettoization, “Interest-Convergence,” and the Limits of Twentieth-Century Civil Rights Reform

  Michael Brandon, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

  White Wobblies and Black Strikers: IWW Sailors as Emissaries of Industrial Unionism

  Jasper Conner, College of William and Mary

  An Indigenous Union: The Emergence of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia

  Chantal Norrgard, University of British Columbia

  “Always Somebody Willing to Take the Chance”: The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union and Radical Traditions in the Old Southwest

  Matt Simmons, University of Florida

  From Community Formation to Coalition Building: Race and Solidarity in San Francisco’s 1934 Maritime and General Strikes

  Elizabeth Sine, California Polytechnic State University

  Chair: Daniel Schlozman, Johns Hopkins University
  Commentator: Tejasvi Nagaraja, Harvard University
• Sanford 223
  Public Sector Labor History from the New Deal to Janus
  CIO’s State County Municipal Workers of America: Organizing and Collective Bargaining during the New Deal

  William Herbert, Hunter College, CUNY

  The Use of International Law to Challenge Restrictions on Public Sector Strikes: TWU v. Taylor Law

  Ashwini Sukthankar, UNITE-HERE

  State Workers Confront Privatization

  Puya Gerami, Yale University

  Chair/Commentator: Katherine Turk, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Sanford 150
  Rank-and-File Movements, Wildcat Strikes, and Union Insurgencies
  The Union of the Future: The Politics of the Presidency in a Public Sector Union, 1958-1964

  Joseph Hower, Southwestern University

  New Opportunities and New Challenges: The IBP Strike of 1969 and Latino Migration to Small-Town Nebraska

  Michelle Martindale, Purdue University

  Organizing a Wildcat: The 1970 U.S. Postal Strike

  Philip Rubio, North Carolina A&T State University

  Chair and Commentator: Gordon Mantler, George Washington University
• 12:00pm-1:45pm
  Sanford 04
  Lunch and Plenary Session: Contingent and Independent Scholars
  The Reality of Independent Scholars

  Keri Leigh Merritt, Independent Scholar

  Building Tenure-Track Support for Adjunct Faculty

  Naomi Williams, Rutgers University

  Adjunct Action: U-Mass, UAW and Union Power

  Tess George, Union of Adjunct Faculty, University of Massachusetts-Lowell/UAW

  Contingent Faculty and the Politics of Education

  Claire Goldstene, LAWCHA Committee on Contingent Faculty

  Commentator: Tula Connell, Independent Scholar

• 2pm-3:15pm

• Sanford 04
  Whither Labor History: New Spirits in the Field
  Listening, Learning, and Collaborating: Writing Puerto Rican Labor History

  Emma Amador, University of Connecticut

  Looking White, Seeing Red: Combatting Historical Determinism in the Age of the Alt-Right

  Max Fraser, Dartmouth College

  Reviving Nineteenth-Century US Labor History

  Stacey Smith, Oregon State University

  Intersectionality and Labor

  Naomi R Williams, Rutgers University

  Chair/Commentator: Eileen Boris, University of California-Santa Barbara
• Rubenstein 149
  Race, Immigration, and the New South Labor Question in the Age of Mass Restriction
  From Ellis Island to Sunnyside Plantation, Arkansas: The Office of Labor Information and Protection for Italians

  Lauren Braun-Strumfels, Raritan Valley Community College

  The Crack in The Door of Hope: US Immigration Policy and the Southern Immigration Movement, 1906-1907

  J. Vincent Lowery, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

  The Negro Problem and the Immigrant Solution: Black Labor and Southern Immigration Advocates, 1880-1914

  Bluford Adams, University of Iowa

  Chair/Commentator: Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia
• Rubenstein 153
  Teaching Labor’s Story: A Workshop Session
  Randi Storch, SUNY-Cortland
  Nikki Mandell, LAWCHA
  Cecelia Bucki, Fairfield University
  Toby Higbie, UCLA
  Emily Liebe, Seattle University
  Lisa Phillips, Indiana State University
  Robyn Muncy, University of Maryland-College Park
  Thai Jones, Columbia University
  Nick Juravich, New York Historical Society
• Sanford 223
  UCAPAWA/FTA: America’s Most Ambitious Civil Rights Union, Part 1: New Case Studies
  Elusive Justice in the Colorado Beet Fields

  Bernadette Perez, Princeton University

  Working-Class Women of Color and Depression-Era Labor Militancy in the Nut Shelling Industry

  Keona Ervin, University of Missouri

  Defying All Authority: Labor Struggles, Gender, and Race in Rural Maryland, 1935-1945

  Anne Lessy, Yale University

  The Legacy of the Charleston Cigar Factory Strike 1945-1946

  Dwana Waugh, Sweet Briar College

  Commentator: Sarah Deutsch, Duke University
  Chair: Jarod Roll, University of Mississippi
• Rubenstein 151
  Lightning Round: Race, Gender, and Difference Inside the Labor Union and the Workplace
  Unseen, Unheard: Women in the Franco-American Anarchist Movement

  Spencer M. Austin, Stony Brook University

  Gender and the Working Class in the Catholic Labor School Movement

  William S. Cossen, The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology

  “One of the Greatest Things to Have Happened in the History of Labor:” The New York State Commission Against Discrimination’s Integration of New York City’s Stagecraft Unions?

  Caroline Propersi-Grossman, Stony Brook University

  Jim Crow’s Craftsmen: The National Labor Relations Board, the Craft Severance Movement, and the Backlash Against Civil Rights Unionism, 1950-1955

  Bryant Etheridge, Bridgewater State University

  Race, Competition, and Deindustrialization in Midcentury Brooklyn: The Case of American Safety Razo

  Andy Battle, CUNY Graduate Center

• Rubenstein 200
  A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850
  Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early Eighteenth-Century Bengal

  Titas Chakrabarty, Duke Kunshan University

  Between the Mountains and the Sea: Knowledge, Networks, and Transimperial Desertion in the Leeward Archipelago, 1627-1727

  James Dator, Goucher College

  “He says that if he is not taught a trade, he will run away”: Recaptured Africans, Desertion and Mobility in the British Caribbean, 1808-1828

  Anita Rupprecht, University of Brighton

  More Dangerous for the Colony Than the Enemy Himself: Military Labor, Desertion, and Imperial Rule in French Louisiana, ca. 1715-1760

  Yevan Terrien, University of Pittsburgh

  Flight as Fight

  Lex Heerma van Voss, Utrecht University

  Chair/Commentator: Julie Greene, University of Maryland-College Park
• Sanford 07
  Resisting Racial Capitalism from the Margins of Working Class History
  Homeless Organizing in 1980s New York City

  Ben Holtzman, Academy of Arts and Sciences

  Slaves of the State, Slavery by Another Name? – Are Prisons Twentieth Century Slavery?: Time, Space, and the Evolution of a Historical Analogy

  Robert Chase, Stony Brook University

  Chair/Commentator: Jessica Wilkerson, University of Mississippi
• Sanford 05
  Corporate Accountability, Labor Rights and Reimagining Global Labor Solidarity
  Chaumtoli Huq, CUNY School of Law
  Nafisa Tanjeem, Lesley University
  Suzanne Adely, Food Chain Workers Alliance
  Chair/Commentator: Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth University

• 3:30pm-4:45pm

• Sanford 03
  Midwestern Migrants Roundtable: Workers on the Border Then and Now
  Ashley Johnson Bavery, Eastern Michigan University
  Nicole Greer Golda, Ferrum College
  Sergio González, Marquette University
  Antonio Ramirez, Elgin Community College
  Irene Mora, University of Michigan
  Anthony Mora, University of Michigan
• Sanford 07
  More Than One Story / Más de una historia: The UFW and Narratives of Farm Workers
  Joanna Welborn, Student Action with Farmworkers
  Daisy Almonte, Duke University
  Lucia Constantine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Rubenstein 200
  Labor, International Relations, and Development
  The Costa Rican Exception: Labor-Liberals and the Limits of Anti-Communism as Social Policy

  Leon Fink, Editor, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

  Land, Labor, and ‘Free’ Trade Unionism: Agrarian Reform and the AFL-CIO’s Cold War in El Salvador

  Jeff Schuhrke, University of Illinois-Chicago

  Chair/Commentator: Yevette Richards, George Mason University
• Sanford 223
  UCAPAWA/FTA: America’s Most Ambitious Civil Rights Union, Part 2: Toward a National Synthesis
  Daniel Sidorick, Rutgers University
  Max Krochmal, Texas Christian University
  Dorothy Fujita-Rony, University of California-Irvine
  Chair/Commentator: Jessica Wilkerson, University of Mississippi
• Sanford 05
  Roundtable: Labor, Land, and Freedom of Movement: Agrarian Reform and Labor in the Age of Emancipation
  Adrienne Petty, The College of William & Mary
  Matthew Stanley, Albany State University
  Sean Griffin, Brooklyn College/Queens College
  Chair/Commentator: Keri Leigh Merritt, Independent Scholar
• Rubenstein 149
  Different Lenses: Mainstream and Working-Class Reporting on Labor in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States
  A Computational Analysis of Topics and Tone in American Labor and Mainstream Newspapers, 1909-1911

  Vilja Hulden, University of Colorado Boulder

  Direct Action vs. Yellow Journalism: Counter Narratives, Fake News, and the Conflicting Reportage of the 1902 Paterson Silk Riots in the Mainstream and Anarchist Press

  Andrew Hoyt, Independent Scholar

  Participatory Journalism & Democratic Communication in the Working-Class Press

  Jon Bekken, Albright College

  Chair/Commentator: James Gregory, University of Washington
• Rubenstein 153
  Social Reproduction as a Category for Labor History: A Roundtable
  Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
  Eileen Boris, University of California-Santa Barbara
  Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University
• Sanford 04
  When Teachers Mobilize: A Labor History Resource Project
  Chad Frazier, Georgetown University
  Nikki Mandel, Independent Scholar
  Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Greenbay
  Nicholas Juravich, New York Historical Society
  Peter Kaufman, Intelligent Television
  Chair: Gregory S. Kealey, University of New Brunswick
• Rubenstein 151
  Democratizing cities, then and now: socialist politics and democratic reform in urban life
  Reinventing Municipal Socialism: Popular Mobilization and Urban Politics in Cold War Milwaukee, 1948-1960

  Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Politics in the streets and in the chambers: new forms of working-class political self-activity in global cities, 1890-1925

  Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa

  Chair/Commentator: Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth University
• 5:00pm-6:45pm
  Sanford 04
  Final Plenary: Teacher Strikes!
  Bryan Proffitt, Durham Teachers Association
  Jessica Salfia, Spring Mills High School, West Virginia
  Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin Green Bay
  Camika Royal, Loyola University Maryland
  William Jones, University of Minnesota