Twenty-ninth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 18-20, 2007
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for sessions and papers on
Labor, Slavery and Freedom in a Global Age
for our twenty-ninth annual meeting.
The challenges and changes presented by globalization have represented a visible and pressing issue for workers over the past several decades. However, the development of a global trade and labor network dates back centuries and has often depended on the contributions of unfree labor -slaves, indentured servants, impressed sailors, serfs. This year's conference wishes to explore the issue of labor in the global economic system both as a historical phenomenon and as an element of our increasingly international economic environment.
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). We welcome sessions that address the theme from perspectives of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
One of our keynote speakers this year will be Verity Burgmann, University of Melbourne, who will discuss her research on international labor movements and radicalism.
Please submit panel and paper proposals (including 1-2 page abstracts and brief vitas or biographical statements for all participants) by March 15, 2007, 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: [mailto]ao1605@wayne.edu[/mailto]
The North American Labor History Conference is sponsored by the Department of History, the Walter P. Reuther Library, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Wayne State University.