Interesting conference

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It is a pity these things are so far away for me anyway
Jim Monaghan

From:                   Jose Alamillo <alamillo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


THE WORKING CLASS AT CENTURY'S END: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

Graduate Student Conference, May 20
Humanities Instructional Building 135, 8:30-5:00

Labor Studies Program, UC Irvine


8:30 Continental Breakfast, Humanities Instructional Building 135 (Note:
All panels will take place in HIB 135)

9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

        Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Director, Labor Studies Program
        David Smith, Sociology, UCI, Editor, Social Problems

9:15-10:30
Panel I. Comparative Studies of Labor in the 20th Century

Nancy Naples, Sociology and Women's Studies, UCI, Moderator

Erind Pajo, Anthropology, UCI -- Labor in Albania: The Collapse of
Communism and Massive Migration to the West

Augusto Espiritu, History, UCLA -- The Filipino Working Class: Reflections
on
Colonialism and Globalization

Miriam Koene and Sandra Rein, Political Science, University of Alberta --
Is Bigger Better? The Merger of the Canadian Health Care Guild and the
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees

Comment From the Audience

10:45-12:00
Panel II. Labor and Migration to the US

Raul Fernandez, Social Sciences and Chicano Latino Studies, UCI, Moderator

Jocelyn Pacleb, Comparative Culture, UCI -- Silent Service: Filipino Men
in the
US Navy
Travis Du Bry, Anthropology, UC Riverside -- Agricultural Laborers,
Socioeconomic Mobility, and Community: Investigating Change in Rural
California

Haley Seif, Anthropology, UC Davis - 1999 Drivers' License Debates: The
Incorporation of Pacific Rim Laborers Versus Investors in the California
State Legislature

Comment From the Audience

12:15-1:30 Lunch; Keynote Speaker Richard Appelbaum, Sociology, Director,
Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, UC Santa Barbara

1:45-3:00
Panel III. Labor and Working Class Organizing at Century's End

Dorothy Fujita-Rony, Asian American Studies, UCI, Moderator

Robert Penney, Sociology, University of Michigan--The Beginning of
Consciousness: Union Certification      Election Campaigns and the
Formation
Worker Collective Identities

Richard Sullivan, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara -- Learning as We Go:
Graduate Student Workers and the        Transformation of the Labor
Movement

Clayton Sinyai, Political Science, Rutgers--American Labor and Democracy
in the
1990s: The Civic Tradition

Tony R. Samara, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara--An Internationalist
Perspective: The U. S. and Third World  Working Classes

Comment From the Audience

3:15-5:00 Film Presentation HIB 100

John DiNardo, Economics, Moderator

Vivian Price, Politics and Society, UCI--Hammering It Out: Women in the
Construction Zone

        Comment From the Audience
        Closing Remarks and Good Evening


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT GILLIAN KUMM AT 949-824-1426
OR GILBERT GONZALEZ AT 949-824-5273