United Association for Labor Education
Conference 2011

Unfinished Business: Workers’ Rights for the Next Generation

New Orleans, Louisiana

Thursday March 24 - Saturday March 26, 2011

Loews Hotel
300 Poydras Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
1-866-211-6411 (reservations)

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Labor educators from unions, workers centers, colleges, universities and community-based organizations will meet in New Orleans March 24-26, 2011, to explore how our work advances workers’ rights today and for future generations. We welcome proposals on topics across the entire span of the challenges facing working people. Proposals draw from many disciplines and take many forms, including strategic or academic reports; qualitative or quantitative analyses; teaching demonstrations; labor history research, curriculum for adults or K-12; union membership training tools; case studies; workshops; general curriculum design; strategy sessions and performances – music, art, especially murals – and theater, especially improvisation or collectively created. 

We are interested in the impact of the recession, inequalities and the broader political climate on organizing, bargaining, representation and access to fundamental rights including education, occupational safety and health, housing and healthcare. Because our conference is in New Orleans, we especially welcome proposals that raise issues related to the intersection of race, class and gender as enacted here, from Jim Crow to Plessy vs Ferguson, to the Civil Rights Movement, to the ongoing impact of Hurricane Katrina and now, as of this writing, the British Petroleum oil spill. 

PROPOSAL DEADLINES

October 15, 2010:

• Deadline for proposals for individual presentations or papers.
• Deadline for proposals for group presentations.

Send these proposals to Helena Worthen at hworthen@illinois.edu.

Please mark clearly whether your proposal is for a presentation (paper, panel, power point, etc., or for an interactive workshop.

November 15,  2010:

• Deadline for proposals from Working Groups (Popular Education, Worker-Writers, Online Learning, Immigration/Globalization, Central Labor Councils, and  K-12 Labor Education). Contact information for Working Groups is on their respective pages on this website. Click on "Working Groups" in the main menu.

Please mark clearly whether your proposal is for a presentation (paper, panel, power point, etc., or for an interactive workshop.

• Deadline for proposals for papers to be submitted to the Labor Studies Journal conference issue. The theme of this issue will be the public perception of unions. Send these proposals to Monica Bielski-Boris at mbielski@illinois.edu.
  

December 1, 2010: Deadline for proposals for papers from students for scholarship competition. Students should send proposals to Joan Hill at johill@usw.org

January 15, 2011: Deadline for Best Book, Best Labor Studies Journal Article, Outstanding Contribution and Lifetime Achievement Award nominations. Send these proposals to Mike Wisniewski at mikewis@earthlink.net



REGISTRATION

FOR MORE INFORMATION     

For registration questions, contact UALE Treasurer Dawn Addy at addyd@fiu.edu. 

General questions about the conference should go to Helena Worthen, Conference Coordinator, at  hworthen@illinois.edu

You can also download a conference brochure here.

LAST YEAR'S CONFERENCE

To see materials that have been posted to the 2010 Conference page click here.