Seminar sessions are held on Fridays from 3 – 5 pm at the Newberry, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Please see the Call for Papers for information on submitting a proposal for the 2012-13 academic year. Proposals for this seminar are due April 25.
This seminar provides a forum for works in progress that explore the history of working class people, communities, and culture; class and state policy; unions and popular political movements; and other related topics. We are particularly interested in works that deal with gender, sexuality, race, migration, and the social history of work. Our focus has been on U.S. history, but we welcome papers on North America generally, and on transnational aspects of labor history.
The seminar’s co-sponsors are the history departments of DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago, the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet, and LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.
Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University; Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Erik Gellman, Roosevelt University are the coordinators for the 2011-12 seminar.
To attend, please read our Registration Information.
To see a listing of past seminars, please select a year below:
Seminar Schedule
“Bionic Ballplayers: The Contractual Construction of Fitness in Major League Baseball, 1964- 2007”
Sarah Rose, University of Texas at Arlington and Joshua Salzmann, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Transatlantic Women: Fishermen’s Wives’ Organizations in Gloucester and Hull”
Colin Davis, University Of Alabama at Birmingham
“‘It Was Nothing Short of War’: Street Railways and the Spread of Class Conflict in Early Twentieth Century Philadelphia”
James Wolfinger, DePaul University
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Featuring Author Joseph McCartin, Georgetown University
“Union Made: Working People and the Rise of the Social Gospel in Turn of the Century Chicago”
Heath Carter, University of Notre Dame