Here's a compact version, quick and easy to forward quick...registration, housing information now posted on site. With two NFM board members presenting, this will get more social media coverage. I'd say "buzz," but then someone would have to shoot me...
from: Michael Zweig; mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
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Dear Friends and Colleagues
*I am happy to report that the full schedule for the How Class Works - 2010 conference is now posted at http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/, together with registration and housing information. The conference will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 3-5, 2010.*
The conference includes over 200 presentations exploring the many ways in which class dynamics shape our social, cultural, and political experiences. It brings together graduate students and senior scholars, labor and community organizers and activists, to extend the knowledge and community of working class studies.
Presenters are coming from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, New Zealand, Portugal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, the UK, and the US.
The opening plenary session will feature Larry Cohen, international resident of Communications Workers of America: "Economic Crisis, Political Paralysis: What's the Working Class to Do?" Thursday June 3 at 7 p.m. Other plenary sessions will address right wing populism, charter schools, and contingent academic labor.
I invite you to check out the program and register for the conference.Limited financial aid is available. I hope to welcome you to Stony Brook in June.
Michael Zweig, Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life
Department of Economics, State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384; tel# 631.632.7536
michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu, http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu
According to UK political activist Richard Seymour writing in The Guardian, Chicago teachers could strike a blow for organised labor globally. Although risky, a successful, a fight to halt school budget cuts in Democratic heartland would be a huge boost for unions.
