Labor and the Millennium: Class, Vision, and Change
Wayne State University, October 19-21, 2000
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites
proposals for panels and papers on the theme, Labor and the Millennium, for
our twenty-second meeting to be held October 19-21, 2000, at Wayne State
University in Detroit. Suggested themes:
Labor and the Future The globalization of national economies historically
and in the present, its impact on the workforce and the labor movement in the
United States and internationally; the effect of technological change;
mechanization, automation, urbanization and the effect on the environment;
shifts in the character, place, and timing of work--whether waged and
salaried or contract, paid or domestic; internationalism and international
labor solidarity.
Class and the Millennium: Utopianism, Utopian Communities, Class Visions of
the Future Historical analysis of utopian socialist movements, utopianism in
radical politics, utopian communities; imagining the future among labor
activists or labor unions or from a working class perspective--and the
intersection of these with future imagining about gender, race, ethnicity,
and/or sexuality; efforts to shape or mold future labor and class relations.
Working Classes and Millennial Movements Historical analysis of working
class participation in millennial, religious revivalist, or fundamentalist
movements--in the United States, comparatively, or internationally; the role
of class in shaping millenarian social movements; the connection between
millennialism and revolutions based on class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity
and race, and/or nationality.
Class, Work, and Science Fiction How historical or contemporary science
fiction has envisioned the future of work and the evolution of the class
structure; the importance of class or radical ideologies in shaping science
fiction/fantasy genres; connections between science fiction and
radicalism--on class and/or gender, race, and sexual terms; working class
writers and/or audiences and science fiction, as written or filmed; the class
content of science fiction in the mass media.
The Future of Labor History and the Future of Academic Labor The future of
labor and working class history and the future of academia, how disciplines
and institutions are changing in the new millennium to alter academic work
and/or shape institutions of higher education, and the future of academic
labor unions and labor relations in academe.
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.
Please submit panel and paper proposals (including a 1-2 page abstracts and
cvs for all participants) at the latest by March 15th, 2000 to Elizabeth Faue below...
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