Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy

Conferences

January 16-17, 2009: The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology and Imagination
This conference expores the hostility of the political right to American trade unionism, both in terms of management-labor conflict and in the world of politics, ideas, and cultural imaginings. Contact the Center for more information.

October 15, 2008: Underground Undergrads Fall Campus Book Tour, 4 p.m., UCen State Street Room.
Undocumented UCLA students share their hardships and challenges in the fight for access to higher education.
Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out, features the growing student movement around access to higher education for undocumented students. Written by the students themselves, eight moving stories of undocumented immigrant students from UCLA provide the focal point of Underground Undergrads. The stories are unique and diverse, but they all demonstrate the pain, financial hardship, and emotional distress these students face as well as their ultimate triumph when they graduate from UCLA.

September 27, 2008: OP-ED Writing Workshop for Labor Historians
Ruth Rosen, the noted historian and columnist, leads an all-day workshop for those who wish to publish in the mass media and on the web. The workship will be held September 27, 2008. Contact the Center for more information.

November 8, 2007: The Traveling Box: The Container as the Global Icon of Our Era

Keynote Speaker: March Levinson (CUNY)

Talk: The Box: How ther Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger"

Keynote Speaker: Rose Ann DeMoro (Executive Director, California Nurses Association)

"From Patient Advocate to Social Advocate: The Work of Nursing"

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Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410.
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