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Bernhard Rieger, “Making Society Work Again: Workfare in Transnational Context since the 1960s””

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Bernhard Rieger (History, University of Leiden) will present "Making Society Work Again: Workfare in Transnational Context since the 1960s"." Rieger's research examines European history within a comparative and transnational framework. His […]

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Serge Ferrari, History, UC Santa Barbara. “General Electric versus the Market: the Road from Industrial to Financial Capitalism.”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Serge Ferrari is completing his dissertation on GE, tracing how the corporation remade itself into a large-scale financial enterprise at the end of the twentieth century. His paper will be available here two weeks before his talk. A light lunch will be served.

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Jin Hee Kim, American Studies, Kyung Hee Cyber University. “The Republic of Samsung: Labor, Governance, and the Crisis of Korean Democracy.”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Currently a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of the Work, Labor, and Democracy, Kim is the author of Labor Law and Labor Policy in New York State, 1920s-1930s (2006) and translator into Korean of John Dewey’s Liberalism and Social Action (2011). The editor and author of numerous books and articles on U.S. and Korean labor, Kim […]

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Nate Citino, History, Rice University, “Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967.”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Citino discusses his most recent book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S. - Arab Relations, 1945-1967 (2017). He is also the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa'ud, and the making of U.S. - Saudi Relations (2002). Co-Sponsored with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Allevation and Sustainable Development. A chapter from his recent book […]

Rosie Bermudez, Chican@ Studies, UC Santa Barbara. “Economic Justice is a Women’s Issue: The Chicana Welfare Rights Organization’s Challenge to Welfare Reform in the 1970s.”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Rosie Cano Bermudez is a doctoral candidate in the department of Chicana and Chicano studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation “Doing Dignity Work: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization, 1967-1974,” focuses on the human dignity struggles waged by single Chicana welfare mothers in East Los Angeles in the 1960s and […]

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Marcia Chatelain, History, Georgetown University, “Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: Fast Food and the Remaking of Civil Rights after 1968”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Chatelain is currently writing a book about race and fast food, From Sit-In to Drive-Thru: Black America in the Age of Fast Food (under contract, Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton).  Her first book South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration was published by Duke University Press in 2015. Chatelain co-edited, with Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Staging a Dream: Untold Stories […]

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Seth Rockman, History, Brown University, “Plantation Labor Outsourced: Rethinking New England Outwork and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Rockman is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008) and co-editor, with Sven Beckert, of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016). Scraping By won the OAH's Merle Curti Prize, the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, and the H.L. Mitchell Prize from the Southern Historical Association. Rockman spent the 2016-17 year at […]

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Dana Frank, History, UC Santa Cruz, leads an all day Op-Ed writing workshop

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Professor Dana Frank of UC Santa Cruz will be leading an all day op-ed writing workshop on Saturday, May 6th. This workshop, offered on an annual basis by the UCSB Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy, provides faculty and students with an opportunity to hone their op-ed writing skills, translating their historical expertise into opinion pieces […]

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