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8:30-10:00am
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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
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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
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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
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Capitalists, Workers, Family, and the Community in the Upper Midwest
Transient Workers as Problem or Opportunity: The Dilemma of Maintaining Working-Class Communities on the Industrial Frontier, 1890-1918
Jimmy Engren, Örebro University
Americanization at Work: Making European Women Workers at Munsingwear Inc. in Minneapolis into “True,” White and Class-less Americans during WWI
Lars Olsson, Linnaeus University
The Most Wholesome of the Heartland: the Dairy Industry, Production, Work and Family in the Upper Midwest, 1830-2018
Dionicio Valdés, Michigan State University
Chair/Commentator: Jeff Helgeson, Texas State University
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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
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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
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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
H. Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa
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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
Clandestine Labor Migration and Underdevelopment of African Migrants in Southern Africa: A Historical Perspective
Ben-junior Chibhamu, University of Zimbabwe
Canadian Commuters and the Politics of the US-Canada Borderland, 1920s-30s
Thomas Klug, Marygrove College
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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, Historian and Writer
Chair: Adrienne Petty, College of William & Mary
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10:15-11:45am
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: Jeannette Estruth, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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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
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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
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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
Commentator: Susan L. Marquis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Chair: Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia
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12:00pm-1:45pm
Lunch and LAWCHA Membership Meeting
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2:00pm-3:15pm
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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
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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.L.B. Twarog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jessica Wilkerson, University of Mississippi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lightning Round: Interrogating Categories: Labor In-Flux in China and India
The Remaking of Socialist Industrial Proletariats
Bing Xia, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
External to the Economy?: Women’s Work in the Industrial Economy of Colonial India
Priyanka Srivastava, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Proletarian Militancy and Social Reproduction in India: Incorporating Gendered Labor and Nature
Sirisha Naidu, Wright State University
Understanding the Crisis Experience: Female Workers, Migration, and Resistance in China after 2008
Zhongjin Li, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Conservation as Dispossession: Locating the Monument within Delhi’s Rural Landscapes
Ragini Jha, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Undercommons of the University: Knowledge Economy and the Differentiation of Labour in India
Swati Birla, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa
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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
“Privatization Through the Back Door”: AFSCME Local 207, Urban Austerity, and the Water Crisis in Southeast Michigan
Josiah Rector, Northland College
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
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The Adjunct Revolt: Organizing in the Academy
Nothing to Lose: Organizing from a Place of Privilege in the Academy
Sarah Grunberg, Ithaca College
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
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3:30pm-4:45pm
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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
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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
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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
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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
Marcelle Grair, Boston Teachers Union
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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
Marcia Walker-McWilliams, Lone Star College
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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4:45pm-5:45pm
Reception
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6:00pm-7:30pm
Plenary: Labor Activism in North Carolina
Roz Pelles, Poor People’s Campaign, Repairers of the Breach, and former Director of Civil, Human, and Women’s Rights Department, AFL-CIO
MaryBe McMillan, President, NC State, AFL-CIO
And other special guests, TBA
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8:30-10:00am
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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
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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
Trading Places: How Steelworker Job Loss Created Pittsburgh’s Service Economy
Gabriel Winant, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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
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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
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Rethinking the First Red Scare a Century Later
The Russian Anarchists and the First Red Scare
Mark Grueter, Simon Fraser University
The Greatest Menace that the American Labor Movement Has Ever Faced: The Workers Defense Union Campaign against Deportations during the First Red Scare
Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University
Reframing the First Red Scare: American Deportees and the Global Interwar Left
Kenyon Zimmer, University of Texas at Arlington
Chair: Fraser Ottanelli, University of South Florida
Commentator: Christina Heatherton, Barnard College
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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
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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
Representative Justice: Chicanas Breaking Barriers for Inclusion in Government and the Civil Rights Movement
Tiffany González, Texas A&M University
Unholy Gospel: The Radical Songs Of The Industrial Workers Of The World
Ben Fortun, Columbia University
Commentator: David Zonderman, North Carolina State
Chair: Sharon Eaves, College of Charleston
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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10:15am-11:45am
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Workshop: How to Write Opinion Pieces for the Mainstream Press and Media
Lane Windham, Georgetown University
Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California at Santa Barbara
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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
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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
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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
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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
Migrants, Work and Identity: A Study in Mumbai
Shahana Purveen, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Chair/Commentator: Toby Higbie, University of California-Los Angeles
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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
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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
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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
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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
Olga Sanmiguel Valderrama, University of Cincinnati
Brigid O’Farrell, Independent Scholar
Xiodan Zhang, City University of New York’s York College
Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Universidade Estadual de Londrina
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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, Independent Scholar
“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
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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
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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
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12:00pm-1:45pm
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
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2pm-3:15pm
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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
The New Labor History and Neoliberalism
Gabriel Winant, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Chair/Commentator: Eileen Boris, University of California-Santa Barbara
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Resisting Racial Capitalism from the Margins of Working Class History
The Coalition to Fight Infant Mortality and Social Reproduction
Sara Matthiesen, George Washington University
Homeless Organizing in 1980s New York City
Ben Holtzman, Academy of Arts and Sciences
Betty Jo Johnson, Dunlop Rubber and Tire Factory, and the Gendered Experiences of a Black Woman Worker in the Piedmont Manufacturing Industry, 1960s-1990s
Sonya Ramsey, UNC-Charlotte
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
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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
Eric Larson, Independent Scholar
Chair/Commentator: Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth University
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3:30pm-4:45pm
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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
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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
The Organizational and Political Geography of the UFW Boycott Movement in Urban North America, 1965 to 1975
Joseph Moreno, Northern Arizona University
¡VIVA LA HUELGA!: The 1974 Strawberry Strike on the Oxnard Plain
Luis Moreno, Bowling Green State University
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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
Making Postcolonial Managers: Training Within Industry Programs in Guided Democracy Indonesia
Brandon Kirk Williams, University of California-Berkeley
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
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UCAPAWA/FTA: America’s Most Ambitious Civil Rights Union, Part 2: Toward a National Synthesis
Sean Crotty, Texas Christian University
Daniel Sidorick, Rutgers University
Max Krochmal, Texas Christian University
Dorothy Fujita-Rony, University of California-Irvine
Chair/Commentator: Jessica Wilkerson, University of Mississippi
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Labor, Land, and Freedom of Movement: Agrarian Reform and Labor in the Age of Emancipation
Mark A. Lause, University of Cincinnati
Adrienne Petty, The College of William & Mary
Keri Leigh Merritt, Independent Scholar
Matthew Stanley, Albany State University
Sean Griffin, Brooklyn College/Queens College
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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
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Social Reproduction as a Category for Labor History: A Roundtable
Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Eileen Boris, University of California-Santa Barbara
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, San Francisco State University
Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University
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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
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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
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5:00pm-6:45pm
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
