Fw: Call for papers

> From: Julie Monroe
> Subject: [LALS] swlsa call for papers
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> Southwest Labor Studies Association
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> Call for Papers
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> 27th Annual Conference
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> May 9-11, 2002
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> California State University, Los Angeles
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> Globalization, Labor, and Inequality Within and Across Borders
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> The Southwest Labor Studies Association (SWLSA) is an organization of
> academics, labor unionists, and community activists. The purpose of SWLSA
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> to explore and promote public understanding of both the labor movement's
> heritage and current undertakings, and of workers' experiences on the job
> and in the community. It is open to anyone with an interest in the labor
> movement.
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> This year's conference is organized around the theme Globalization, Labor,
> and Inequality Within and Across Borders. SWLSA solicits proposals for
> panels, scholarly papers, or roundtables on the conference theme.
Proposals
> on other themes of labor, work, and community are also invited. Students,
> teachers, college and university professors, labor unionists, community
> activists, and public policy makers are encouraged to participate.
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> Paper topics areas may include (but are not limited to):
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> -The Impact of War and Recession on Workers and Communities
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> -Labor Reform: Rank and File Movements and Organizing Drives
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> -Labor and Popular Movements in the Third World
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> -U.S. Labor Foreign Policy: International Solidarity or Protectionism?
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> -The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Jobs, Living Standards, etc.
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> -The Feminization of Labor; the Gendered Impact of Globalization
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> -Anti-globalization Struggles
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> -Neoliberalism and the Assault on the Welfare State
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> -Managed Migrations in the World Context
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> -New Industrialization/Maquiladorization and Prospects for Class
> Struggle
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> -What Can be Learned from Past Class Struggles: Working Class Successes
> and Setbacks
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> SWLSA encourages submission of proposals via email. A proposal for a
panel,
> paper, or roundtable should include the title of the session and the names
> and affiliations of all participants. The proposal should include the
title
> and brief (one-paragraph) abstract for each paper or presentation and a
> biographical paragraph for each person proposing a paper.
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> Submit Proposals by February 1, 2002 to:
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> Enrique Ochoa
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> Department of History
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> California State University, Los Angeles
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> Los Angeles, CA 90032
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> Email: eochoa3@calstatela.edu
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> Co-Sponsor: Department of History CSULA, Southern California Library for
> Social Studies and Research, UCI-Labor Studies Program, CSU-DH Labor
> Studies Program, UCLA Labor Center
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