ASSA sessions

["Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>]

Those going to New Orleans may be interested in the following sessions, that do
not fall under the URPE banner. The first includes Michael Perelman. The second
includes Rhonda Williams, who many of you know has passed away recently.  The
session will be dedicated to her memory.  Mat

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Saturday, January 6
8:00 a.m., Marriott, Balcony N

Technology, Class, and Institutional Change

Presiding: James Sturgeon, University of Missouri, Kansas City

"Is the Working Class Working Under New Capitalist Forms of Organization? A
Critique of Hodgson's View of the Labor Contract"
Stephanie Bell, University of Missouri Kansas City
John Henry, California State University

"Stages of Transformational Growth"
Edward Nell, New School for Social Research

"Technology and Class: The Role of Intellectual Property"
Michael Perelman, California State University, Chico

"Information Technology and Commercialization of Knowledge: Corporate
Universities and Class Dynamics in an Era of Technological Restructuring"
Bruce Pietrykowski, University of Michigan, Dearborn

"Technology, Productivity and the Workweek"
Robert La Jeunesse, Colorado State University

"Technology and Transsubjective Structural Context"
Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Comment: Ingrid Rima, Temple University

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Sunday, January 7
1:00 p.m., Marriott, Balcony M

American Apartheid: Capitalism and Racism in the US

Presiding: Mathew Forstater, University of Missouri, Kansas City

"Coming of Age in the 90ís Go-Go Economy: Economic Growth and Changes in the
Employment and Earnings Gap Between Young Workers by Race"
Heather Boushey, Economic Policy Institute

"Small Business and African American Employment: Solution or Problem?"
Gary Dymski, University of California, Riverside

"Why Did Black Relative Earnings Surge in the Early 1990s?"
Samuel L. Myers, Jr., University of Minnesota
William A. Darity, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Employment Discrimination or Occupational Apartheid: The Politics of Discourse"
Stephen Steinberg, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY

"Incarceration and Invisible Inequality in the US Labor Market"
Bruce Western, Princeton University

"If You're Black, Get Back; If You're Brown, Stick Around; If You're White, Hang
Tight: A Primer on Race, Gender, and Work in the Global Economy"
Rhonda Williams, University of Maryland, College Park