LAWCHA papers

Conference and paper call:

Labor & Working Class History Association (LAWCHA)

Notice: in association with Southern Labor Studies, LAWCHA is co-sponsoring an innovative conference this May bringing together scholars, activists, and union members from throughout North America.

Titled "Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation: Contemporary Challenges in Historical Context," the conference centers on public sector employees, service workers, farm labor, immigration, organizing outside the workplace, environmental justice, and the role of intellectuals in labor struggles.

Now is your last chance to participate! Paper and panel proposals relating to the conference themes are due this Monday, January 15 and may be submitted via email to lawcha@duke.edu. See the attached CFP for more details and send your proposals in now!

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Conference Announcement and Call for Papers


The Labor and Working Class History Association and Southern Labor Studies


present


Working Class Activism in the South and the Nation: Contemporary Challenges in Historical Context


May 17, 18, and 19, 2007

at the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke University



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


The key thematic areas for the conference will be:
The New Working Class: Public Sector and Service Workers
Farm Labor & Immigration
Organizing Outside the Workplace
Environmental Justice
Intellectuals' Role in Labor Struggles


Five plenary sessions featuring round-table discussions among an academic, an activist, a policy maker and a rank-and-file worker, will each address one of the conference themes. Panels, documentary presentations, and cultural programs will further explore the issues raised in the plenary sessions.


The LAWCHA/Southern Labor Studies Program Committee invites submissions of paper and panel proposals broadly related to the conference theme and plenary topics. The Committee prefers proposals of complete panels, but will accept single paper proposals.


LAWCHA encourages proposals that are interdisciplinary in nature, include public historians and activists as well as academics, take creative approaches, and that will speak meaningfully to those both inside and outside the academy.


Proposals for sessions should include: a one-page summary of the session as a whole; a one-page abstract of each paper; a brief curriculum vitae of each participant.


Please be sure to include contact information for each participant including name, title, institution or affiliation (please indicate if
independent), mailing address, contact phone number and e-mail address.


Submissions are due January 15, 2007, and decisions will be announced shortly thereafter.


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