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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:29:10 -0800
From: "Gilbert G. Gonzalez" <gggonzal@uci.edu>
To: Lisa Mikhail:  ;

                CALL FOR GRADUATE CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS


                   THE WORKING CLASS AT CENTURY'S END: 

                        RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT


                FOCUSED RESEARCH PROGRAM IN LABOR STUDIES 
                                UC IRVINE
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The UC Irvine Focused Research Program in Labor Studies is an
interdisciplinary research unit bringing together twenty faculty and
graduate students with diverse interests in the working class. The Program
is broadly conceived and encourages research in all aspects of working
class life, from the workplace to community, and includes topics related to
(among others) the arts, unionization, immigration, race, international
capital, gender, and politics.

Building on the theme of labor at the end of the 20th century, the Program
is inviting proposals from prospective graduate participants from all
disciplines to present their research at the conference scheduled for May
20th 2000 at UCI. It is expected that the Conference will encourage a
sharing of information and establish linkages among those graduate students
involved in research on the working class.

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Proposals need not be longer than one page and submitted in duplicate to
Professor Gilbert Gonzalez, School of Social, Sciences, University of
California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697. The Conference Program Committee asks
that proposals be submitted by January 15. Acceptance letters will be sent
out no later than mid-February, 2000. Each participant will receive a
stipend of $100.00 upon presentation of their papers and all are asked to
attend all panel sessions.

Topic areas may include and are not limited to:
Immigration                             Technology                          
    Prison Labor
Culture                                 Transnational Capital and Labor
Gender Relations
Unionization                            Arts and Literature                 
    Garment
Factories
Historical Overviews                          Representations               
    Media and Labor
Foreign Assembly Plants                 Ethnicity                           
    Ideology