Twenty-Sixth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 21-23, 2004
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for sessions and papers on "Class, Work and Revolution," for our twenty-sixth annual meeting. Since the seventeenth century, the cataclysms of political and social revolution, broadly defined, have recast the nation-state and re- configured civil society, global economies, and national cultures. In this process, class structures, the language and ideology of work and class, and class politics have been re-cast as revolutions and revolutionary regimes have emerged and changed. In 2004, the North American Labor History Conference will explore these themes in a range of international and national contexts, such as the American Revolution, the French Revolution, revolutionary movements in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, and twentieth-century national liberation struggles.
The program committee encourages comparative and interdisciplinary scholarship from a range of national and international contexts, the integration of public historians and community and labor activists into conference sessions, and the use of differing session formats (workshops, roundtable discussions, and multimedia as well as traditional panels). It encourages sessions which may address the topic from perspectives of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
Please submit panel and paper proposals (including a 1-2 page abstracts and brief cvs or biographical statements for all participants) by March 1st, 2004, to:
Professor Janine Lanza
Coordinator, North American Labor History Conference
Department of History
3094 Faculty Administration Building
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313/577-2525
Fax: 313 577-6987
Email: ao1605@wayne.edu
The North American Labor History Conference is sponsored by the Department of History, the Walter Reuther Library, the College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University, and the Labor and Working Class History Association.