(NAME-MCE) Working Class Studies Conference

[Paul C. Gorski]

Working Class Studies Conference
June 14-17, 2007
Macalaster College, St. Paul, Minnesota

For more information, contact Peter Rachleff at rachleff at macalaster.edu.

Sisters and Brothers, Scholars, Activists, Unionists, Feminists,
Students, and Others Who Believe Class Still Exists!

Come Help Build the Multi-Disciplinary Field of Working Class Studies!
(The Conference Formerly Known as Youngstown)

For the last  twelve years a movement has been growing in higher
education, the new field of Working Class Studies.  Like women's
studies, African American or Latino studies, this field gives people
from a variety of academic disciplines and grass roots activists a place
to discuss issues of class in America and the world.  It includes people
from all academic disciplines; unions; grass roots activists, and other
non-academic settings.  It also provides a high degree of consciousness
about other important social issues and how they interact with class.

A few years ago the Working Class Studies Association (WCSA) was
founded.  This year is the first year the WCSA is putting on "The
Conference Formerly Known as Youngstown".  Long-time local activists
Peter Rachleff, labor historian and activist, current WCSA
president-elect, and Barbara Jensen, community psychologist, feminist,
and working class studies writer and activist, are proud to announce
this conference will be in Saint Paul/Minneapolis this June. The Twin
Cities are a hotbed of all kinds of social, political, and artistic
activity and already has an active working class studies committee.

Working Class Studies, as a specific field to be nurtured in colleges
and universities, began in Youngstown, Ohio, at the Youngstown State
University in 1995. Since that time, people from all over the United
States, and the world, have gathered at least yearly, to help build
awareness of class and explore the many issues and themes that class
creates.  Alternating bi-annual conferences in Youngstown and State
University of New York at Stoneybrook, have sustained and nurtured
Working Class Studies. Now we invite you to become part of this crucial
and growing movement.




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Paul C. Gorski
Hamline University
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