Working Class Culture area, MAPACA

The Working Class Culture area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association invites you to participate in the annual MAPACA conference. This year's conference will be in Atlantic City, NJ, Nov. 7-9, 2013. Papers in the Working Class Culture area include representations of the working class in all areas of culture, including but not limited to art, literature, film, and the media.

New publication on on auto workers in Detroit and Turin in the 2nd half of the 20th century

I thought list readers might be interested in the following new book from
Nicola Pizzolato on auto workers in Detroit and Turin in the second half of
the twentieth century:

Nicola
Pizzolato, Challenging Global Capitalism:
Labor Migration, Radical Struggle, and Urban
Change in Detroit and Turin
, Palgrave
Macmillan Transnational History, 2013

Workers across Africa: global and transnational labour history and labour studies

Date: 27 June 2013 to 29 June 2013
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Panel Workers across Africa: global and transnational labour history and labour studies, organized at the 5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013): African dynamics in a multipolar world , in Lisbon, Portugal, 27 - 29 June 2013.

The panel is convened by Stefano Bellucci (IISH) and William Freund (University of KwaZulu/Natal).

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Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference

LAWCHA Conference: Program Available, Online Registration Ends JUNE 3rd

Hello,

The 2013 Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference, "Rights, Solidarity, Justice: Working People Organizing, Past and Present" will be taking place from June 6-8, in New York City. We have an exciting program planned, including film screenings, two public plenaries, a guided tour, and over 90 roundtables, workshops, and presentations planned.

Tracing Connections - Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Multilocalities

Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 20.06.2013-21.06.2013, Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstraße 74-100, D-12249 Berlin
Deadline: 31.05.2013

We cordially invite you to the Crossroads Asia Workshop "Tracing Connections - Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Multilocalities" at the Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universität Berlin held on 20 - 21 June 2013.