The Center for Study of Working Class Life is dedicated to exploring the meaning of class in today’s world. Looking at society through the lens of class clarifies many important social questions in new ways – why the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, what attacks on government programs through privatization mean, why the suburbs aren’t really a middle class haven, how the "family values" debate impacts our lives, and much more. We are an interdisciplinary effort of faculty and staff at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, founded in November 1999. The Center studies class mainly with tools of the social sciences, but we also pay attention to the arts. Through our gallery and tv/video pages, we highlight the work of artists who convey the many faces and circumstances of working people today. Our affiliated faculty and staff address a wide range of issues, in their own work and through various programs in the Center’s calendar. The Center encourages an approach that recognizes the close connections between class and race, gender, and nationality. We investigate the meaning of class in the international economy. The interactions among these elements are a central consideration of Center programs. Over the past thirty years, we in the United States have made important progress on issues of race and gender, both intellectually and in our lives, although much remains to be accomplished. Think what the world would be like if we made that kind of progress on issues of class in the next thirty years! The Center for Study of Working Class Life is dedicated to helping that process along.
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Submissions from 2014

 

Session 1.1: Australian Working Class Writing, Sarah Attfield, Dennis Mclntosh, Steve Brock, and Geoff Goodfellow
2014-10-01

 

Session 2.4: Race and Class: The White Experience, Tina M. Bampton, Andrew Levison, and Christopher Cimaglio
2014-10-01

 

Session 7.3: Spaces of Class Formation, Rudi Batzell, Elaine Lewinnek, Richard Koubek, and David P. Waggoner
2014-10-01

 

Session 3.7: Media, Power, and The Working Class, Gokhan Bulut, Cagri Kaderoglu Bulut, Frank Emspak, and Jessica Crowell
2014-10-01

 

Session 12.3: Work Experience and Environment, James V. Catano, Christopher Sellers, Nathaniel Heggins Bryant, and Michelle M. Tokarczyk
2014-10-01

 

Session 8.3: Class, Climate Change, and Environmental Activism: From Pittsburgh to Port of Spain, Nick Coles, Molly Nichols, and Mel Packer
2014-10-01

 

Session 7.1: The Great Depression and The Great Recession: De-Classing and Re-Classing Relief, Recovery, and Reform, Shella Collins, Timothy A. Canova, and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
2014-10-01

 

Session 11.0: Plenary Session: New Directions in The U.S. Labor Movement, Bhairavi Desai, Fred Kowal, Michael Zweig, and Fred Mason
2014-10-01

 

Session 2.5: Class and Children, Daniel Drennan and Erynn Masi De Casanova
2014-10-01

 

Session 8.4: Linking Issues and Movements: The Convergence of Labor, Peace, and Community Activists to Advance A "Budget For All"-The Massachusetts Experience and Beyond, Pat Fry, Cole Harrison, Judith LeBlanc, and Carolyn Federoff
2014-10-01

 

Session 15.2: Hard Times For The U.S. Working Class, Jackie Gabriel, Steve Thornton, Jill A. Schennum, and Joseph Varga
2014-10-01

 

Session 3.5: Through The Lens of Social Class: Teaching Students in Poverty and Teaching Students About Poverty, Karen Gaffney, Alicia Liss, and Karen Gutshall-Seidman
2014-10-01

 

Session 6.7: Middle Class? Working Class? What's the Difference? Why Does It Matter?, Barbara Garson, Jeremiah Coldsmith, and Ellen Schrecker
2014-10-01

 

Session 3.6: Unions & Labor Activism, Alana Lee Glaser, Philip F. Rubio, and Jessica Rybak
2014-10-01

 

Session 5.0: Plenary Session: The African-American Experience of Class, Fredrick Harris, Kris Marsh, Aldon Morris, and Rashawn Ray
2014-10-01

 

Session 7.4: Textual Transformation: The Role of Literacy and Literature in Empowering the Working Class of The Early Twentieth Century, Emma Howes, Rebecca Griffin, and Amy Brady
2014-10-01

 

Session 3.4: Author Meets Readers: Betsy Leondar-Wright's Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups, Allison Hurst, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Jack Metzgar, Sean Staub, and Tim Strangleman
2014-10-01

 

Session 12.7: Class Around the World: European Perspectives, Ezgi Kaya, Dave Lowes, and Eszter Bartha
2014-10-01

 

Session 3.2: How Class Works in Turkey, Miris Meryem Kurtulmus, Kurtar Tanyilmaz, Irfan Kaygisiz, Serkan Ongel, and Gencer Cakir
2014-10-01

 

Session 1.2: Class Around the World: Asian Perspectives, Shankar Lamichhane, Jonathan P. Sale, and Snehashish Bhattacharya
2014-10-01

 

Session 8.1: Movement-building and Class Cultures, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Penny Lewis, and Barbara Jensen
2014-10-01

 

Session 3.1: Class, Popular Culture, And Media Translations, Timothy Libretti, Ryan Poll, Jon Antol, and Katherine Galmiche
2014-10-01

 

Session 14.1: Cultures of Class War and Mass Meida, Dennis Lopez, Raul Perez, and Fernando Cortes Chirino
2014-10-01

 

Session 8.7: Class Around the World: African Perspectives, Patricia McFadden, Dorothy Owino Rombo, Claudia Ortu, and Funmi Adewumi
2014-10-01

 

Session 14.4: Hard Times for the Global Working Class, Jeremy Morris, Ju Li, and Tim Strangleman
2014-10-01

 

Session 8.6: Uncovering Subversive Class Narratives in the Classroom, Myla B. Morris, Ashley Brenner, and Tabitha A. Morgan
2014-10-01

 

Session 6.5: Religion and Class, Stan Nadel, Robert Saute', Sheila Collins, and Ken Estey
2014-10-01

 

Session 7.6: A Workshop on How to Start a Center for Working Class Studies without Money, Brick and Mortar, or Institutional Support, Kathy M. Newman, John P. Beck, Alicia Williamson, and Kidd Katherine A.
2014-10-01

 

Session 2.1: Representing Class in Photography, Film, and Literature From the 1930s to the Present, Kathy M. Newman, Erika Gottfried, and Joseph Entin
2014-10-01

 

Session 14.3: Gender and Class, Stephen Patnode, Sofie Tornhill, and Ryan Driskell Tate
2014-10-01

 

Session 2.3: Class in The Classroom - I, Cherie Rankin and Lisa A. Kriby
2014-10-01

 

Session 6.2: Music and Literature of Working Class Activism, Michael Roberts, Terry Easton, and Ellen McGrath Smith
2014-10-01

 

Session 12.5: Class Around the World: Transamerican Perspectives, Manuel Salamanca, Ricardo Donaire, and Bryant Etheridge
2014-10-01

 

Session 15.1: Exploring Class Consciousness - II, Jeremy Sawyer, Sylvia Hahn, and Matthew Kendrick
2014-10-01

 

Session 3.3: Lessons and Legacies of The Labor Party: A Round-table Discussion, Derek Seidman, Mark Dudzic, Jenny Brown, and Eddie Rosario
2014-10-01

 

Session 6.1: Exploring Class Consciousness - I, Shaoni Shabnam and Deborah A Smith
2014-10-01

 

Session 7.2: Unsung Heroes & Heroines: Giving Voice to The Voiceless: Writing Workshops & Publishing Stories For Organized & Unorganized Workers, D. Timothy Sheard
2014-10-01

 

Session 7.5: Race and Class: The Black Experience, Andor Skotnes and Muata Greene
2014-10-01

 

Session 14.2: Building Cooperative Alliances Between Radical Scholars and Social Movements, Jackie Smith, Alfredo Lopez, Greg Maney, Pamela Brown, and Michael Schwartz
2014-10-01

 

Session 4.0: Opening Plenary - Provost Lecture, Saket Soni
2014-10-01

 

Session 8.2: Representing Class, Francine Tyler, Sarah Attfield, Michael Seltzer, and Elizabeth Dadabo
2014-10-01

 

Session 12.4: Class in The Classroom - II, Yolanda M. Wiggins, Michael "Enku Ide, Blair Harrington, Chase Bollig, and Jim Vander Putten
2014-10-01

 

Session 9.0: Banquet & Awards, Michael Zweig and Jinzhi "Alex" Liu
2014-10-01