Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:48:14 -0500 From: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu To: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu Subject: How Class Works announcement
Dear friend and colleague-
Please distribute the announcement below to lists and individuals who might be interetsed. I hope to see you at Stony Brook for the How Class Works conference beginning June 5. You can find more information and registration material on the Website indicated below. Thank you.
Michael Zweig Conference co-ordinator
Registration is now open for the How Class Works conference, June 5-9, 2002 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (55 miles east of New York City on Long Island). Topics include: The mosaic of class, race, and gender; Class in a global economy; Class, power, and social structure; Class and community; Class and public policy; Watching the media through the lens of class; September 11 and its aftermath through the lens of class; and Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it matter? Speakers include Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Mike Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Juan Gonzalez, Julianne Malveaux, Leo Panitch, Frances Fox Piven, Katie Quan, Adolph Reed, Danny Schechter, William K. Tabb, and Michael Zweig, plus over 120 academics and labor and community activists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, and Australia, plus films, photos, music, poetry. To see the schedule and other information and to register, visit "conference" at <http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.