[URPE] registration update for How Class Works - 2008 conference

[mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu]

Dear Friends and Colleagues -

If you have not already registered for the June 5-7  How Class Works - 
2008 conference at SUNY Stony Brook, I hope you will do so at your 
earliest convenience.  Please note that discounted registration rates 
expire May 8, after which registration fees will increase.

To register on line, or to download the registration form to submit by 
mail, and to see the full conference schedule and housing, travel, and 
other conference information, please go to the How Class Works - 2008 
conference pages on the Website of the Center for Study of Working Class 
Life.

I'm resending the original conference announcement below and ask that you 
circulate it to anyone who might be interested, with your encouragement to 
attend.

I look forward to welcoming you to Stony Brook in June. 

best wishes

Michael

Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life


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Dear Friends and Colleagues - 

I am pleased to announce that the How Class Works- 2008 conference 
program, on-line registration, housing and other information are now 
available on the conference pages of the Center for Study of Working Class 
Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

The How Class Works - 2008 conference will be at Stony Brook, Thursday - 
Saturday, June 5 - 7, 2008

 
Topics Include The color line in the 21st century and the legacy of 
Theodore W. Allen - single-payer health care - corporate practices in 
higher education - teaching class - white working class anger in the UK - 
lessons of the Charleston 5 - class and the legal system - class and 
religion – labor law and union strategy - plus many more in 54 sessions.

Speakers Confirmedinclude Sam Anderson, Catherine-Mercedes Brillantes 
Judge, Pedro Caban, Fuat Ercan, Claudia Fegan, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Tami 
Gold, Elizabeth Hoffman, Sara Jarayaman, Stathis Kouvelakis, Sherry 
Linkon, Meizhu Lui, Manning Marable, Jack Metzgar, Nelson Motto, Manny 
Ness, Bertell Ollman, Jeff Perry, Catherine Pouzoulet, Dave Roediger, 
Andrew Ross, John Russo, Vinny Tirelli, Michelle Tokarczyk, Richard 
Trumka, Joe Wilson
 
Plus over 180 presentationsin working class studies from graduate 
students, faculty, union and community activists -- from Australia, 
Canada, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Nigeria, Turkey, 
UK, and US  --  plus film, music, photography, and poetry

See the conference program and register on-line.  I look forward to 
welcoming you to Stony Brook in June.

Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life
Department of Economics
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384
631 632 7536
michael.zweig at stonybrook.edu
www.workingclass.sunysb.edu
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