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2018 Conference Concurrent Sessions

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

This version is up to date as of February 6, 2018

Color Code

Blue Text is for bi-lingual requests - final bi-lingual sessions tbd

Green Text is for sessions of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association (PNLHA)

Yellow is for Popular Education Track  
Purple is for Films
Green is for Roundtables
Red is for Curriculum Demonstrations
Beige is for Panels
White is for LSJ Scholarship Slam
Meetings that take place during Concurrent Sessions time slots are also in White

 

Thursday sessions

 Friday Sessions Saturday Sessions
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Note: The sessions are listed on this page vertically by day and time, (as on the conference page) and horizontaly by room. This is different from arrangement on the pdf download of the schedule, where sessions are listed vertically by day and by room, and horizontally by time.

 

Thursday Concurrent Sessions     
 room  Mercer A Mercer B Orcas A Orcas B San Juan
 10:30 - noon Winning/Argyres - Addressing Micro-aggressions and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Labor/Union Issue LSJ paper session: 
  • Eidline & Uetricht - U.S. Union Decline, Revitalization, and the Missing “Militant Minority”
  • House & Gray - Building Our Collective Power: Neoliberalism, Resistance, and Socialist Education at Pearson Airport; Winslow - Marx On The Relation Of “Labor” To “Socialism”
  • Devinatz - Left-Wing SPA-Led Unions and CPUSA-Led Unions as the Vanguard of US Social Democracy’s Left-Wing, Circa 1935 to 1950

Cunningham/Ashby -
No More Status Quo: Using the "Dual Case Study" Method to Build Union Leadership 

 Wong et al -
DACA and the Future of the Dreamers 

Weidling/Kidney/ De Jesus -
AFSCME's Beyond Bias and Other Tools for Fighting Injustice 
 1:30 - 3:00

Shaughnessey/Frye/Coney -

Tools of the Trade: Strengthening Union Women's Voices

Scholarship Slam

  • Daria - The Slaves of the 21st Century: Organizing Mexico's First Grassroots Farmworkers Union;
  • Brooks - Seize the Moment: Labor Education and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace 
 Rajendra/Kling/Fernandez -
Getting in to it: Productively, Directly Discussing White & Economic Nationalism 		 Rosenblum/Sawant - Learning in the Streets: Political Theory, Political Practice, and Contemporary Struggle in the Fight for $15 Byrd/Skinner/Zabin/Uehlein -
At theTable or on the Menu? Educating Labor for Climate Policy Work 
 3:30 - 5:30  Viveros/Lee/McKay/Williams - Community-based and Worker-engaged Research: Lessons from the Field of Participatory Action Research

Scholarship Slam:

  • Kaminski - What Makes a Good Union Leader: Evidence from the Harvard Trade Union Program;
  • Woods - Making the Case for Union Membershhip: The Strategic Value of New Hire Orientations;
  • Geraci - Teaching Labor Information Literacy in an Information Avalanche 

Laslett/Kidney -
Talking Across the Political Divide 

Dickson/King/Lyons/Fortado -
Action-Oriented Research Advancing Progressive Labor Policies 

 Bussel/De La Cruz - "The Care Revolution": The Transformation of Home Health Care in Oregon 

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Friday Concurrent Sessions
room Mercer A Mercer B Orcas A Orcas B San Juan
8:30 - 10 O'Malley & Ewing - Demonstrating the Value of Popular Education - 1 of 2

Scholarship Slam:

  • Glass - What CA Labor History has to Tell us about Resistance in the Time of Trump;
  • Black - Racism, Anti-Racism Education, and the Future of Home Care Unionism;
  • Wade - Are Teachers the New "Welfare Queens?" CPS and the Illinois Budget Stalemate
 Farrell -
Let's Make Labor Education Fun for Kids!

 

Twarog/Schmidt/Story - "Masking the Violence: Examining the Workplace as a Site of Violence

 Worker Writer Working Group Meeting
10:30 - noon  O'Malley & Ewing - Demonstrating the Value of Popular Education - 2 of 2

Scholarship Slam:

  • DeFreitas - Connecting the Classroom and the Community with a Labor Journal;
  • Juravich - Rethinking Strategic Campaigns: Power, Targets and Tactics;
  • Ross/Savage - Labor Under Attack: The Dynamics of Anti-Unionism In Canada
 O'Farrell/Martin -
Tradeswomen History Workshop: Learning from the Past to Change the Future		 Flores/Frye/Hughes - Confronting #MeToo - Sexual Assault in the Workplace  New Generation Session?
1:30 - 3:00 (Space available)

Scholarship Slam:

  • Bell/Chong/Watt - Labour Education and the White-Collar Worker;
  • Larson - Bridge-Building in the Age of Trump: Labor Education, Coalitions, and Shared Strategies;
  • Thomas - Contesting Right-Wing Populism in Urban Spaces: Challenges and Strategies 
 Young Worker Working Group Meeting 

West/Pinto/Schindle/Rajendra -
Bridging the Divide: What Labor Can Learn from Real Examples of Multiracial Solidarity 

 Panel/Film -
Kling/Bielski-Boris -
Janitors Campaign in the Twin Cities 

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Saturday Concurrent Sessions
room Mercer A Mercer B Orcas A Orcas B San Juan Horizon and Alpine
9:50 -11:00           PNLHA panel
Honey/Fletcher/Wong/De Jesus -
Fifty Years Since King and Our Continuing Fight for Economic Justice
10:30 - noon O'Malley/Huezo -
A New Model for Popular Economics Education		 Stewart/Bellisimo/Restrepo -
Shared Struggle: Public Schools as Territories of Peace in Colombia's Conflict Zone		 Chock/Ryan/Champagne/Waters -
Int'l Labor Solidarity - An Asia Perspective		 Reichert -
Discussion of 9to5 Project film and its uses 		 Nack:
Divided We Fall - documentary film on Wisconsin, 2011 		 PNLHA Sessions ongoing

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