The Newberry Library Labor History Sympsium

Co-Sponsored by the Chicago and Urbana campuses of the University of Illinois, and the Labor and Working Class History Association

Saturday, June 5, from 11:00am to 3:00pm

Tejano Migrants / American Citizens:
Mexican American Migrant Workers and the Making of the Chicano Movement
Marc S. Rodriguez, Princeton University

"Who Will Help Harvest the Crops?:"
Immigrant Guest Workers and Industrializing Midwest Agriculture, 1917-1921
Kathleen Mapes, SUNY Geneseo

Heartland Radicalism and the Making of American Realism
Jeff Brune, University of Washington, Seattle

Proletarian Days and Bohemian Nights:
Open Forums and Popular Social Science in Chicago, 1910-1940
Frank Tobias Higbie, The Newberry Library

Scholl Center seminars present scholars' works-in-progress. All papers are pre-circulated. If you plan to attend, you may receive a paper by contacting Ginger Shulick by email or phone.

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