Organizing for Power and Workers’ Rights in the Twenty-first Century

The Center for the History of the New America presents:
 
Organizing for Power and Workers’ Rights in the Twenty-first Century
 
Attacks on the freedom to organize have created new challenges for workers in recent years. This symposium will examine approaches to organizing that have emerged in the fast food, big box merchandizing and domestic care industries, among others, while placing them in the context of a global economy. Panelists will examine effective labor organizing strategies, support for workers and how the economy and outsourcing can be integrated into labor organizing. Participants can also view the new George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive at UMD, which presents a history of the labor struggle within the United States.
 

For more information: www.newamerica.umd.edu
 
PROGRAM
 
9 a.m.
Introductory remarks
Julie Greene, professor, Department of History, University of Maryland
Patricia A. Steele, dean of libraries, University of Maryland
 
9:30 a.m. 
Session One 
Building the 21st Century Labor Movement 
 
Chair:
Anna Lane Windham, doctoral candidate, Department of History, University of 
Maryland  
 
Speakers:  
Janice Fine, associate professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers 
University 
 
Eileen Boris, Hull professor, Departments of History and Feminist Studies, 
University of California Santa Barbara
 
Dan Schlademan, director of Making Change at Walmart, United Food and 
Commercial Workers Union 
 
11:30 a.m. 
Keynote address 
Elizabeth Shuler, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO
 
1 p.m.
LUNCH
 
2 p.m. 
Session Two 
 
Global  Flows: Immigrants, Globalization and the New Political Economy
 
Chair:
Nancy Mirabal, associate professor, Department of American Studies, University of 
Maryland
 
Speakers:
Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and 
Democracy, Department of History, University of California Santa Barbara 
 
Tefere Gebre, executive vice president, AFL-CIO 
 
Sergio Sosa, executive director, Heartland Workers Center
 
4 p.m. 
Reception and Tour
 
Tour the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive  and the Gordon W. Prange 
Collection, Hornbake Library, 4th Floor
 
Photos from Page One Photography collection, University of Maryland Libraries.
 
Co-sponsored by
University of Maryland Libraries  |  Southern Labor Studies Association 
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers