10:15-12:15 Session 1
What makes a factory really work? Labor and the Factory
David Suisman, “New York’s ‘Song Factories’: Tin Pan Alley and the Mass Production of Music”
Christopher Tassava, "No More Vital Work: Quality Control in World War II Shipbuilding"
Gregory Miller, "Space, Place, Pace, and Power: The Worker Insurgency Against Corporate Hegemony at the Lordtown Assembly Plant"
Comment: Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library

1:15-3:15 Session 2
The Space and Place of Factories
Susan K. Appel, “Brewing Up a New Kind of Factory”
Guian McKee, “Factory Design and Urban Deindustrialization: Politics, Industrial Architecture, and Economic Change in Post-World War II Philadelphia”
Gail Dubrow, “The Architecture of Racial Segregation in Pacific Northwest Lumber Mill Town: A Case Study of the Japanese Camp at Selleck, Washington”
Comment: Steve Lubar, NMAH

3:30-5:00 Session 3
The Organic Factory: Plants as Products
Marina Moskowitz, “Industrial Plants: Depictions of the Nineteenth-Century American Seed Trade”
Evan Bennett, “Taylorizing Tobacco: The State, Farmers, and the Reshaping of Bright Tobacco Agriculture”
Comment: TBA

5:15-6:45 Session 4
Reinventing the Factory: New Perspectives on the Science of Industrialization
David Alan Grier, “Mathematical Factories: The Computing Floor 1758-1945”
Stuart “Bill” Leslie and Hyungsub Choi, “The Laboratory as Factory, the Factory as Laboratory”
Comment: Gerard J. Fitzgerald, Carnegie Mellon University