Workers of the World

Christy Glass, “Work and Welfare during Market Transition: A Gendered Analysis of Social Change in Eastern Europe”

Christy Glass teaches sociology at Utah State University and has written widely on gender, work and welfare in Eastern Europe.

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 4PM, HGS 217A

“Come On Down”
A screening of a new independent film on working retail, followed by a discussion with the film’s writer, director, producer and lead actors. Co-sponsored with American Studies, Film Studies, and Public Humanities at Yale.

Thursday, February 25, 2010, 4:30 PM

Linsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 317

Marc Bousquet, “How the University Works”

Marc Bousquet is Associate Professor of English at Santa Clara University, where he teaches courses on radicalism, the Left, and new media. He is the founding editor of the online journal Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor and the author of the new book, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU, 2008).

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Breakfast and roundtable discussion, Wednesday, April 8, 2009

“Made in L.A.”
A screening of the new labor documentary, Made in L.A., in April 2008. It was followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Jennifer Klein, with the filmmakers, Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, as well Fátima Rojas and Juan Granados of Unidad Latina en Acción, and Elizabeth Breton from the UNITE-HERE Joint Laundry Board.

“Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels”
The ILC , together with Labyrinth Books, celebrated the publication of Yale sociologist Rachel Sherman’s book, Class Acts, with a conversation between the author and Michael Denning, followed by a reception, in February 2007.

“Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels”
The ILC , together with Labyrinth Books, celebrates the publication of Yale sociologist Rachel Sherman’s book, Class Acts, with a conversation between the author and Michael Denning, followed by a reception.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 5:30 PM

Labyrinth Books

“Egyptian Textile Workers: From Craft Artisans Facing European Competition to Proletarians Contending with the State”
The Stanford University historian Joel Beinin, the author of Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East, in November 2005.

Joel Beinin, “Egyptian Textile Workers: From Craft Artisans Facing European Competition to Proletarians Contending with the State.”

Joel Beinin is Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (2001), The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (1998), Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965 (1990), and with Zackary Lockman, Works on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (1987). He is the editor with Joe Stork of Political Islam: Essays from the Middle East Report (1996), and with Zachary Lockman, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (1989).

Thursday, November 17, 2005, 4:30pm

Hall of Graduate Studies, room 211

Roundtable Discussion, Friday, November 18, 10:30am

Hall of Graduate Studies, room 105

“Workers’ Movements and Imperialism: From Berlin (1884) to Baku (1920).”
The ILC’s Inaugural Colloquium – which had been postponed from the previous fall – opened our second year in September 2005. It featured Yale’s distinguished labor historian, David Montgomery, Farnam Professor Emeritus of History, the author of Worker’s Control in America, The Fall of the House of Labor, and Citizen Worker. The guest respondent was Blanca G. Silvestrini, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, and a leading historian of Puerto Rican labor.

David Montgomery, “Workers’ Movements and Imperialism: From Berlin (1884) to Baku (1920)”

David Montgomery is the Farnan Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His best-known books are The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Pulitzer Prize finalist nomination, 1988), Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century (1993), Workers’ Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles (1979), and Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872 (1967). He has recently co-authored Black Workers’ Struggle for Equality in Birmingha (2004).

Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005, 4:30 PM

Whitney Humanities Center, room 208

Commentator: Blanca G. Silvestrini, Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is the author of Women and Resistance in Caribbean Contemporary Societies (1990), Politics, Society and Culture in the Caribbean (1984), Violencia y criminalidad en Puerto Rico, 1898–1973: Apuntes para um estudo de historia social (1980), Los trabajadores puertorriquenõs y el Partido Socialista, 1932–1940 (1978), and the co-author of Historia de Puerto Rico: Trayectoria de un pueblo (1987).

“Tracking the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez: A History “
Yale historian and ILC affiliate Stephen Pitti, the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley, presented work from his forthcoming biography of Cesar Chavez in April 2005.

Workers of the World:

Stephen J. Pitti, “Tracking the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez: A History.”

Stephen J. Pitti is Professor in the History Department and American Studies, Yale University, and the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Race, Mexican Americans, and Northern California (2003).

Wednesday, April 13, 4:30 pm
Hall of Graduate Studies, room 211

“Seremos Como Martí: Workers and Contradiction in the Cuban Revolution”
The ILC celebrated the publication of Yale historian Lillian Guerra’s book, The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth Century Cuba (2005), with her lecture, followed by a reception and book signing in March 2005.

Lillian Guerra, “Seremos Como Martí: Workers and Contradiction in the Cuban Revolution.”

Lillian Guerra is Assistant Professor of Caribbean History at Yale University, and the author of Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (1998) and The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth Century Cuba (2005). She has also published two books of Spanish-language poetry on themes of displacement and Latino identity.

Wednesday, March 30, 4:30 pm
Hall of Graduate Studies, room 211

“ ‘Made in China’: Labor’s Contentious Transition from State Socialism”
The University of Michigan sociologist Ching Kwan Lee, the author of Gender and the South China Miracle (1998), in February 2005.

Ching Kwan Lee, “ ‘Made in China’: Labor’s Contentious Transition from State Socialism.”

Ching Kwan Lee is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the author of Gender and the South China Miracle (1998) and In the Twilight of Socialism: Chinese Workers’ Livelihood Struggles in Reform China (forthcoming).

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 4:30 pm
Hall of Graduate Studies, room 119A

Round Table Discussion, Thursday, Feb. 24, 10:30 am
Hall of Graduate Studies, room 105

Co-sponsored with the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization

Working Group on Globalization and Culture, “Another World is Possible: Report on the 2005 World Social Forum in Brazil.” (Amanda Ciafone, Michael Denning, Dan Gilbert, Sumanth Gopinath, Myra Jones-Taylor, Nazima Kadir, Christina Moon, and Naomi Paik) with Tanya Agathocleous.

Wednesday, Feb. 16, 7 pm
Hall of Graduate Studies, room 119

Co-sponsored with the American Studies Colloquium Series

“From Tijuana to Baghdad – Who Pays the Price of Globalization?”

The journalist and photographer David Bacon, the author of The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (2004), in October 2004.

David Bacon, “From Tijuana to Baghdad – Who Pays the Price of Globalization?”

David Bacon is a journalist and photographer. He is the author of The Children of Nafta: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (2004) and a regular contributor to The Nation, The Progressive, Z Magazine, The American Prospect, and L.A. Weekly. His photographs and articles can be seen at http://dbacon.igc.org/

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004, 4:30 pm
W. L. Harkness Hall, Room 116

Round Table Discussion, Thursday, Oct. 21, 10:30 am
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 10