working class studies strathclyde

REDISCOVERING THE WORKING CLASS: NEW INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

A Conference to launch the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives Friday 11 March 2011 University of Strathclyde, Senate Room, Collins Building, 22 Richmond Street, Glasgow, G1 1XQ Organised by Colm Breathnach, Neil Davidson and Patricia McCafferty As places are limited advance registration is essential

PROGRAMME

09.00–09.45

Registration and Coffee

09.45-09.50

Welcome Professor Jim McDonald (University of Strathclyde)

09.50-10.00

Introduction Neil Davidson (University of Strathclyde)

10.00-11.15

Session 1: Why a Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives?

Professor Michael Zweig (Stony Brook University)

11.15–11.30

Refreshment Break

11.30–12.45

Session 2: Class, Work and Deindustrialisation Dr Tim Strangleman (University of Kent)

12.45–13.45

Buffet Lunch

13.45–15.00

Session 3: The Power of Class: Inequalities, Injuries and Actions in the History of Advanced Capitalism Professor Michael J. Haynes (University of Wolverhampton)

15.00–16.15

Session 4: Panel Discussion Geographies of Social Class in 21st Century Britain Professor Danny Dorling (University of Sheffield) Where is the Working Class? Class Agency and Resistance in British Cities Dr Andrew Cumbers (University of Glasgow)

16.15–16.30

Refreshment Break

16.30–17.45

Session 5: Representations of the Working Class in Contemporary Art and Culture Gail Day (University of Leeds) and Steve Edwards (The Open University)

17.45-18.00

Reflections on the Conference Professor Michael Zweig (Stony Brook University)

18.00–19.00

Wine Reception/Informal discussion

SPEAKERS Andrew Cumbers is a Reader in Geographical Political Economy at the School of Geographical Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Andrew is the co-author of An Introduction to Economic Geography (Prentice Hall, 2007) and The Entangled Geographies of Global Justice Networks (Manchester University Press, 2009), and is co-editor of Reclaiming the Economy (Scottish Left Review Press, 2007). He is one of the Managing Editors of Urban Studies.

Neil Davidson is a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde and a founder (with Colm Breathnach and Patricia McCafferty) of the Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives. He is the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (Pluto Press, 2000) and Discovering the Scottish Revolution (Pluto Press, 2003), and is co-editor of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism (E. J. Brill, 2008) and Neoliberal Scotland (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010).

Gail Day is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Gail’s work has appeared in several journals including Radical Philosophy and Third Text, and she is the author of Dialectical Passions (Columbia University Press, 2010).

Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol. Danny is the author of many books, most recently Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists (Policy Press, 2010).

Steve Edwards is a Senior Lecturer with the Arts Faculty of the Open University. He is the author of two books: The Making of English Photography (Penn State University Press, 2006) and Photography: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2006), and the editor of two Open University textbooks: Art and its Histories (Yale University Press, 1996) and (with Paul Wood) Art of the Avant-gardes (Yale University Press, 2004). Steve is on the editorial boards of the Oxford Art Journal and Historical Materialism.

Michael J. Haynes is a professor in the Management Research Centre at The University of Wolverhampton Business School. He is the author of Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (Croom Helm, 1985), Russia: Class and Power in the Twentieth Century (Bookmarks, 2002) and (with Rumy Hasan) A Century of State Murder? (Pluto Press, 2003).

Jim McDonald has been Principal of the University of Strathclyde since March 2009. He was educated at Strathclyde before spending eight years in industry, returning to the University in 1984 and holding several academic positions in the department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering including Head of Department, before becoming Rolls Royce Professor of Electrical Power Systems in 1994. Jim has a strong personal commitment to supporting gifted young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter Higher Education, advising the Robertson Trust, which allocates scholarships, and playing a leading role in the Careers Scotland/NASA Space School and the IET Power Academy, which have similar aims.

Tim Strangleman is a reader with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. Between 2003 and 2006 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. Tim is the author of Work Identity at the End of the Line? Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Rail Industry (Palgrave, 2004) and (with Tracey Warren) Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Method (Routledge, 2008), and is editor of The Sociology of Work (Routledge, 2011).

Michael Zweig is a professor of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Working Class Life at Stony Brook University, Long Island. He is the author of The Working Class Majority (Cornell University Press, 2000), and editor of Religion and Economic Justice (Temple University Press, 1991) and What's Class Got to Do with it? (Cornell University Press, 2004).

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