Conference on Social Class, at Stonybrook

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> Because of the disruptions everyone has experienced following Sept. 11,
the
> deadline for proposals for the How Class Works conference has been
extended
> one month, to December 15, 2001.  Submit to: Group for the Study of
Working
> Class Life, Dept. of Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384.  The
> conference will take place June 5-9, 2002 at the University at Stony
Brook.
> Conference themes include: The mosaic of class, race and gender; Class,
> power, and social structure; Class and community; Class in a global
> economy; Middle class? Working class?  What's the difference and why does
> it matter?; Class and public policy; Pedagogy of class.  Many excellent
> proposals are already in.  Plenary speakers already confirmed include:
> Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen, Elaine Bernard, Sue Cobble, Mike
> Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Frances Fox Piven, Katie Quan,
> Bill Tabb, and Michael Zweig.  For more information, see
> <www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.
>
> (See attached file: Call for Papers.doc)
>
>                                HOW CLASS WORKS
>                                CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>                        A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook
>                                 June 5-9, 2002
>
>    The Group for the Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce
the
>    How Class Works Conference, to be held at the State University of New
>    York at Stony Brook, June 5-9, 2002.  Proposals for papers,
>    presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 15, 2001
>    according to the guidelines below.  For more information, visit our
>    Website at <www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.
>
>    Purpose and orientation.  The conference seeks to explore ways in which
>    an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world
in
>    which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our
>    understanding of class as a social relationship.  Presentations should
>    take as their point of reference the lived experience of class;
proposed
>    theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social
>    realities.  All presentations should be accessible to an
>    interdisciplinary audience.
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>    While the focus of the conference is in the social sciences,
>    presentations from other disciplines are welcome as they bear upon
>    conference themes.  Presentations are also welcome from people outside
>    academic life when they sum up social experience in a way that
>    contributes to the themes of the conference.  Academic presenters will
>    be expected to prepare a paper for the conference.  For non-academic
>    presenters, papers will be welcome but are not required.
>
>    Conference themes.  The conference welcomes proposals for presentations
>    that advance our understanding of any of the following themes.
>
>         The mosaic of class, race, and gender.  To explore how class
shapes
>    racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender,
>    and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning of
>    class.
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>         Class, power, and social structure.  To explore the social content
>    of working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects
>    of power; to explore ways in which class and structures of power
>    interact, at the workplace and in the broader society.
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>         Class and community.  To explore ways in which class operates
>    outside the workplace in the communities where people of various
classes
>    live.
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>         Class in a global economy.  To explore how class identity and
class
>    dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of
>    cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor
>    standards.
>
>         Middle class? Working class?  What's the difference and why does
it
>    matter?  To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society
>    and contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority;
>    to explore the relationships between the middle class and the working
>    class.
>
>         Class and public policy.  To explore how class affects public
>    policy, with special attention to health care, the criminal justice
>    system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic policy, housing, and
>    education.
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>         Pedagogy of class.  To explore techniques and materials useful for
>    teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university
courses,
>    and in labor studies and adult education courses.
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>    Proposals.
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>         Proposals for presentations must include the following
information:
>    a) title; b) which of the seven conference themes will be addressed; c)
>    a maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and slice
of
>    experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal information
>    indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what training or
>    experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e) presenter's name,
>    address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address.  A person may present in
at
>    most two conference sessions.  To allow time for discussion, sessions
>    will be limited to four fifteen-minute principal presentations.
>    Sessions will not include official discussants.
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>       Proposals for sessions are welcome.  A single session proposal must
>    include proposal information for all presentations expected to be part
>    of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to
>    participate from each proposed session member.
>
>       Submit proposals as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works
>    Conference, Group for the Study of Working Class Life, Department of
>    Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384.
>
>    Timetable.  Proposals must be postmarked by December 15, 2001.
>    Notifications will be mailed on January 15, 2002.  The conference will
>    be at SUNY Stony Brook June 5-9, 2002.  Conference registration and
>    housing reservations will be possible after January 15, 2002.  Details
>    and updates will be posted at <www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.
>
>                            Conference coordinator:
>
>                                 Michael Zweig
>                   Group for the Study of Working Class Life
>                            Department of Economics
>                                      SUNY
>                           Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384
>                           mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
>