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Name(s)Theme or Idea, In Search of Co-Panelists, etcInterest and/or RecommendationsNotes/Comments
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LisaMary Wichowski (lisa.wichowski@salve.edu) Changing roles of women in death care or memorialization and class. You might try Kelly Arehart, who works on death and funeral homes. kelly.brennan.arehart@gmail.com Maybe as commentator, Stephen Berry (the UGA one). He's written more on death than anyone I know. Bet he'd comment, and know people doing interesting stuff. Another person to consider might be Roi Livne at Michigan (rlivne@umich.edu).
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Jeff Kolnick jeff.kolnick@smsu.eduI want to explore the idea of the essential worker historically, and as it played out during the COVID 19 pandemic. I can imagine a lightnening round, roundtable, or three papers. As I note below re: Wendy's paper, I've got a few different ideas in mind relating to AFSCME's engagement with debates over deinstitutionalization in hospitals and mental healthcare in the late 1960s and 1970s. Happy to jump in a panel or serve as chair/comment.

- Joseph Hower / howerj2@southwestern.edu		Need to withdraw due to travel complications (10.15.22)

Hi there Jeff, I'm also interested. I have a few ideas to draw on from my dissertation for a paper panel.

Specifically, I examine the prolonged labor struggle of low-income migrant women of color employed as domestic workers to achieve respect and legal rights in Greater Boston since the 1960s to 2015. Though they've always been essential, domestic workers were historically excluded from labor protections most others enjoy.

I could write about organizing among - household employees during the '60s-70s; home care workers during the '80s and '90s; or household employees since the 2000s and up through Covid.
Thanks for considering! ~Mia Michael michaemc@bc.edu
If you're still looking, I'd be interested in joining this session. My work examines historical and contemporary conditions of farm labor in the US South and the tension between "essential" and "disposable" workers that has always existed in this labor system. Specifically, I analyze the histories of chattel slavery and post-Emancipation farm labor schemes in comparison to H-2A migrant farm labor in Georgia today (during COVID 19). Let me know! - Caroline Keegan, carolinekeegan@tamu.edu
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nob doran; (nobdoran@hotmail.com exploring the life experience of the children of the traditional 'working class' who have grown up in a 'knowledge' economy rather than an industrial economy. How do we theorise this transformation in 'selves', and how do we resist this knowledge/power?
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Pankil Goswami (pankil.goswami@mail.mcgill.ca) Conceptualizing precarious workers and its implications on social policy (From a developing economy/Global south perspective).
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Janine Giordano Drake jgdrake@iu.edu
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shobhanawarrier@gmail.comWomen workers in early independent India: Madras PresidencyI study the history of women and work as social historyMattie Armstrong-Price (aarmstrongprice@fordham.edu): I work on questions of race, gender, labor, and social reproduction in the railway districts of late colonial India, and would be very interested in participating in a panel along the lines you've outlined here.
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Caleb Pennington (caleb-pennington@uiowa.edu), Shannan Clark (clarksh@montclair.edu)Organizing on college campuses. Graduate student unions. Non-traditional workers.Erin Hatten at SUNY Buffalo does really interesting work on the exploitation of lab assistants, athletes, and others. eehatton@buffalo.edu
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Gavin Moulton (gmoulton@nd.edu),
TIna Wei (jtwei@g.harvard.edu)		Material Culture and Labor Outside the Civic Sphere
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Cole Wicker (winfred.wicker@uga.edu)Convict Labor, Race, Coal MiningI am exploring the period of convict leasing in North Carolina's Coal Field in the 20th century. I am interested in the question of the coercive power of the state, as well as the integration of labor across cultural and ethnic communitiesAsk Talitha LaFleuria, Alex Lichtenstein, or Karen Shapiro to comment. Maybe track down this person: Wheeler, K.H. Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from the Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829–1894? If you go on scholar.google and set the date parameters to recent years, you'll find lots of folks.

Sarah Haley at Columbia
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Nick Toloudis (toloudin@tcnj.edu)Building class consciousness through education in the United StatesI am exploring the period of convict leasing in North Carolina's Coal Field in the 20th century. I am interested in the question of the coercive power of the state, as well as the integration of labor across cultural and ethnic communitiesTry Bryant Etheridge. bletheridge1@gmail.com
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Sarah Pollnow
(spollnow@nd.edu)		1920s women's labor history; sex work and commercial amusements; racism and U.S. empire; women in politicsI analyze 1920s labor organizing by dance hall "girls" in Seattle, the girls' engagement with the city's first woman mayor, and racial anxieties regarding Filipino men dancing with white womenHi! My name is Kelly Miller and I'm a Labor Studies grad student at UMass Amherst. I have a paper I'd like to present on union women's auxiliaries in the 19th/20th centuries and I think it could mesh well with your work. My email is kelmmiller@umass.edu. Please reach out to me and I can send you my abstract and paper. Different period but I'd bet Alexandra Finley (Pittsburg) would comment.
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rfeurer@niu.edu Rosemary Feurerrace and labor; incarceration; strikes; mining; 19th century; gilded age labor; strikebreakingAfrican-American Alabama convict miner turned union organizer who fought in the Illinois mine wars in the 1890s and ended back in Illinois prison as a result of the mine wars.See Cole Wicker above, Rosemary.
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Caroline Propersi-Grossman Caroline.propersi@gmail.comIndependent scholar in search of panelists about class and cultureSocial history of art, unseen labor, family in working class life, working class institutions, technology, social reproductionI'm working on the history of infant feeding. Could present, comment, or chair - Lara Vapnek, vapnekl@stjohns.edu.
I am investigating about the making of working class during Franco's dictatorship in Spain and I think that I could contribute with two options: 1. Domestic work and maids History 2. Family relationships in working class life - Diego Latorre Manglano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) diegolat@ucm.es
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Chip Hughes chiphughes@gmail.comSouthern Exposure Magazine at 50: Lifting up worker voices in Southern labor strugglesFrom the 1930's to the present, SE has pioneered oral history and doumentation of key Southern labor struggles; Looking across the generations, how can this contribute to current labor struggles in the South?John Moran here at UGA might be game, Chip. He's thought a lot about labor songs as an organizing tool. John.Moran@uga.edu
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Antonina Woodsum agw2121@columbia.eduNative American labor in 20th century, policing and prohibition in/across Indian country/surveillance over inter-racial/inter-ethnic sociality and work sites, settler colonialism
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Diego Latore Manglano diegolat@ucm.esEveryday forms of workers resistance
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Wendy Gonaver, wendy_gonaver@urmc.rochester.edumid-20th c race/labor disputes in institutions, esp hospitals. My paper will contrast SCLC's involvement in the Charleston (SC)Hospital Workers Movement in 1968-69 with related activism in Rochester, NY circa 1964. A panel might also look at educational institutions in the same period. Alternately, a panel could be organized thematically (eg, disputes that inlcude contests over federal grants) rather than focused on time period.I've got a few different ideas relating to mental health institution organizing and labor struggles over deinstitutionalization that might work as a companion paper, but I'd also be happy to serve as chair/comment if you have others in mind.
- Joseph Hower / Southwestern University howerj2@southwestern.edu
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CSR Shankar (csr00001@umn.edu); Harsha Anantharaman; Ira Anjali Anwar Reconstructions of Casted Labor in India: quests for livelihood and dignity in reproductive work keywords: waste pickers, beauticians, and sex workers, technology and labor, intellectual history, urban geography, infrastructure, gender
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Ambre.Ivol@univ-nantes.frTeaching social justice in everyday life: A study in Howard Zinn's pedagogy of historyI would like to focus on Zinn's little-known Justice in Everyday Life volume, published in 1974. The goal of the panel would be to look at Zinn's practices as a teacher of US history & political science, focusing on the 1970s and 1980s (he retired in 1988).I have accumulated a tremendous amount of material about H. Zinn (he was my PhD subject at the Sorbonne). I am now focusing on his writings about World War Two but would like to start a collective project related to his years as a teacher, focusing on Boston University 1964-1988 (rather than the better-known Spelman years). This panel could be a first step in a larger project.
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Paul Taillon (p.taillon@auckland.ac.nz)The living wage, the labor of social reproduction, and the Big Railroad Strike of 1922Focusing on the Big Railroad Strike of 1922, I can present a paper in which I draw upon Nancy Fraser to think about living wage debates in the post-World War I years as part of broader boundary struggles over social reproduction.
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Jamie K. McCallum (mccallum@middlebury.edu_I'd like to do a paper or panel on labor struggles during the pandemic. My research, based on my next book, argues that struggles by essential workers benefitted broader public health, and in some cases, reduced the spread of Covid-19. This research links workplace safety to class struggle.
Hi Jamie, I'd be interested if we could put something together in a matter of days--lisa.daily@nyu.edu
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Alyssa Russell (alyssa.russell@duke.edu)I am hoping to present on a paper about how fostering a "healthy business climate" historically harms working-class people, with corporate tax breaks undermining local and state government tax bases and fueling capital mobility. Any other papers on economic policy or more broad understandings of government and businesss interactions would likely make for a great panel!
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ian.rocksborough-smith@ufv.ca + rzecker@stfx.caPutting together a panel on workers education schools and "radical" approaches to workers education over the long mid-20th Century.
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Caroline Keegan (carolinekeegan@tamu.edu)Interested in a panel on social reproduction and migrant labor. My own work is on historical (18th-20th C) and contemporary conditions of farm labor in the US (see also comment in F4)
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Aaron Freedman (alf2212@columbia.edu)Interested in a roundtable on the anarchist Ferrer Colony and Modern School in Stelton, NJ (just outside of Rutgers) and how the legacy of radical communities inform activists today
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 Love Karlsson lovekarlsson@hds.harvard.edu I am writing a paper on Scandinavian-American socialists who protested American involvement in World War 1. A major theme the paper focuses on is how they handled their positionality as privileged white Protestants who advocated for racial and cultural solidaric unity.
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Kelly Miller (kelmmiller@umass.edu)I have a paper I'd like to present about union women's auxiliaries in the 19th and 20th centuries and the overalll importance of reproductive labor and community involvement in labor organizing. I'm looking for other panelists with papers on 19th/20th-century women's labor history, reproductive labor, and/or organizing whole communities rather than just workplaces.
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Jacob Zumoff jacob.zumoff@gmail.comI am working on two projects.One is a study of West Indian/Afro-Caribbean migration in Panama in the 1920s and 1930s, which touches upon issues of race, ethnicity, and nationality. The second is a study of the political evolution of hardboiled crime writer Dashiell Hammett, who started as a Pinkerton detective and ended up a member of the Communist Party.
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