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Labor and Employment Relations Association, the Union for Radical Political Economics, and the Labor and Working Class History Association present:


LERA/URPE/LAWCHA Mini-Consortium:
“Labor Across the Boundaries”

Thursday, January 6, 2011 in Denver, CO


8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Presenter: Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine—Converging Differences: Thoughts on the Overlapping and Contradictory Projects of U.S. Political Economy, Industrial Relations and Labor and Working Class History

9:00 a.m. ‑ 10:00 a.m.
Panelists: Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Thomas A. Kochan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island

10:10 a.m. ‑ 12:00 p.m.
Featured Speaker: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California-Santa Barbara—Evolution and Devolution of the New Deal Era in Historical Context: 1900-2010
Discussants: Jennifer Klein, Yale University
Sanford M. Jacoby, University of California-Los Angeles
Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO
Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine

12:00 p.m. ‑ 1:15 p.m.
Chair: Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine

1:15 p.m. ‑ 3:00 p.m.
Chair: Bruce E. Kaufman, Georgia State University
Panelists: Kris Rondeau, Harvard Union of Clerical & Technical Workers
Thomas A. Kochan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rosemary Batt, Cornell University
Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Nancy MacLean, Duke University

Mini-Consortium will be held on the pre-conference day of the AEA/ASSA annual meeting.
Early-bird registration is $75, through December 1, 2010, and accommodations are available as well. Registration is required both to attend and to receive the discounted hotel rates.


Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  |  504 E. Armory Ave., Champaign, IL 61820
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