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Past Events:
Teach-in on so-called
"Free Trade Agreements"
FTAA
AND
CAFTA
February 8th, 2005
Panel Discussion with
NGO experts
3-5pm at the
Cross-Cultural Center at UCI
Details
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PHOTOS
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- Description:
- The Focused Research Program in Labor Studies was formally established
in 1998 and brings together more than twenty-two faculty graduate
students and undergraduates with an interest in the working class.
The Schools of Humanities, School of the Arts, Social Ecology, Social
Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Programs in Chicano Latino Studies,
Women's Studies, Latin American Studies, and Asian American Studies
are represented. The Program is broadly conceived and emphasizes
the interdisciplinary study of the multifaceted experiences of the
working class. Topics of interest to the Program members include
the arts, international capital, unions, gender, foreign assembly
plants, immigration, and ethnicity, among others. The Program sponsors
seminars, a quarterly speakers' series, and funds seed grant research
projects. In May 2000 the Program hosted a graduate student conference
on Labor at Century's Ends: Retrospect and Prospect. In Spring 2001,
the Program hosted a large conference featuring specialists in the
field. In Spring 2003, another conference gathered to consider the
issues of labor and imperialism.
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Among the groups' activities are biquarterly meetings, brown
bag lunches to hear about members' research and to listen to invited
speakers. Labor Studies has hosted a graduate conference and two
faculty conferences.
We have just put together a volume of essays entitled Labor versus
Empire, based on the excellent group of papers presented at our
last conference.
For more information on this volume, click here. |
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