During various Laborlore Conversations, the Fund for Labor Culture & History (FLCH) has offered many individuals in presentations ranging from academic papers, to informal discussions of particular projects, to film showings, and musical performances.
A chronological list follows:
I. Piledriver’s Hall, Oakland, CA – October 2, 2004
1. John Robinson: Publishing Workers’ Stories
2. Bucky Halker: Labor Music, Then & Now
3. Manuel Pena: Undocumented Field Workers Lore
4. Holly Syrracos: An Inventory of Labor Landmarks
5. David Elsila: UAW’s Cultural Programs
6. Will Jones: Southern Lumber Camp Blues
7. Maria Hetherton: A Shipwright’s Artistry
8. Peter Rachleff: Workingclass Counterculture
9. Maria Brooks: Pilebutt: Working Under the Hammer, A Film
10. Stephen Wade: The New Deal’s Vernacular Voice, A Banjo Concert
II. University of North Carolina, Folklore Curriculum
Chapel Hill, North Carolina - September 24, 2005
11. Bob McCarl: Tomato Bucket/Pulaski and Running Coat: Artifacts and the ‘Social Dialectic’ of Work
12. Bryan McNeil with Elaine Purkey & Freda Williams: Holding the Thread: Coalfield Activists Discuss Their Efforts in Labor, Community, and Environmental Organizing
13. Tim Prizer: Angelica’s Dirty Laundry: Oral History and Advocacy in Labor Ethnography
14. Charlie Thompson with Don Candelario Gonzalez Moreno and Lupe Huitron: The Guestworker, A Documentary Film
15. Jason Leff: A Snapshot of North Carolina Workers
16. Mike Munoz: Giacomo Patri: Illustrations in Sequence
17. Norm Cohen: The Lowell Factory Girls in 19th Century Songs
18. Ronnie Pugh: A Wry Look at Retirement: Country Music’s ‘Old Age Pension Check’
19. Pat Huber: Red Necks and Red Bandanas: American Coal Miners and the Coloring of Union Solidarity
20. Angie Newsome: When the Thread Unravels: How the Social and Economic Fabric of a Western North Carolina Mill Town Changed When a Textile Company Died
21. Kerry Taylor: Turn to the Working Class: 70s Radicals and the American Worker
22. Various Artists: Bluegrass Concert
III. Ironworkers Hall, Benicia, CA – September 30, 2006
23. Dick Zampa: Family Tradition & Union History
24. John Robinson: Ironworkers on the Zampa Bridge
25. Julie Ardery: Conflict in Presenting Union Traditions
26. Saul Schniderman: An Inventory of Labor Landmarks
27. Tim Kelley: The Garcia & Maggini Warehouse, A Labor Landmark Project
28. Derek Green: Commemorating San Francisco’s First Central Electric Power Station
29. Susan Sherwood: The SFSU Labor Archives
30. Sandra Cate: Tip Jars
31. Pat Huber: Carolina Piedmont Textile Musicians and the Creation of the Modern South
32. Bob Cantwell: Literary Examples of Laborlore
33. Shelly Romalis: Sarah Gunning, Appalachian Balladeer
34. Mike Munoz: Pilebutt Lore
35. Janet Gilmore: Great Lakes Fisheries
36. Maggie Holtzberg: Boston’s Big Dig Project
37. Suzanne Povse: Women in the Philadelphia Metal Trades
38. Maria Brook & Jim McNamee: Shipping Out, A Film
39. Los Cenzontles: Perform Mexican Vernacular Music with Comments by Guillermo Molina
IV. Library of Congress, Washington, DC – August 16, 2007
40. Nick Spitzer: In Katrina’s Wake: The Building Trades in New Orleans
41. Bob McCarl: George Korson’s Pioneering Field Work & Research Ethics
42. Brian McNeil with Elaine Purkey & Freda Williams: Organizing Coal Communities in West Virginia Around Issues of Environmental Degradation and Social Justice
43. Anne Lewis: The ‘Morristown’ Project and Challenges in Community Documentation
44. Barbara Miller: Labor’s Deconstruction at Environmental Sites: Environmental Activism and the Consequences of Heavy Industry
45. Paula Johnson: Assessment of Waterways Work; Representing and Translating the Craft of Labor in the Museum
46. Elaine Eff with Janice Marshall & James Lane: The Changing Nature of Work Traditions in a Watermen’s Community; Issues in Collecting and Collaborating Between Community Scholars and Scholars
47. Carl Fleischhauer: Collecting and Presenting Labor Techniques & Traditions in Paradise Valley, Nevada; Self-documentation Strategies and Methods
48. Maribel Alvarez: Transnational Artisanal Culture on the US-Mexico Border
49. Julie Ardery & Mike Munoz: The Expressive Culture of Giacomo Patri
50. Hal Cannon & Susan Church: Deep West Video Community Documentation Project
51. David Roediger: The Big Red Songbook and a Short History of Labor Song Collecting
52. Hazel Dickens & Mike Seeger: Perform Old Time Music, Joe Wilson Comments
V. Sailor’s Union of Pacific Hall, San Francisco, CA September 20, 2008
53. Jack Wright: Music of Coal, A 2-CD Set
54. Erin Farrell: India Basin Boat Yard
55. John Robinson: Latino Bridge Builders
56. Margie Ryan: Twin Scholarships, UNC & Jack Henning
57. Gunnar Lundeberg: The SUP Hall as a Cultural Treasurehouse
58. Jeff Currie: Lumbee Indians as Sheetrockers
59. Marjorie Hunt: The Smithsonian Institution Meets the National Cathedral’s Stone Carvers
60. Lincoln Cushing: The Labor Poster Book
61. Catherine Powell: San Francisco Labor Landmarks Guide Book
62. Gilbert Gonzalez: The Bracero Film
63. Nari Rhee: Silicon Valley’s New Work Force
64. David Walls: The Red Flag, A Song Study
VI. Roosevelt University, Chicago, May 28-30, 2009 in cooperation with the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA)
Laborlore: The Big Red Songbook
65. Joe Grim Feinberg, University of Chicago
66. Paul Garon, Beasley Books
67. Adam Machado, Fund for Labor Culture & History, "The Big Red Songbook on Record"
68. David Roediger, University of Illinois-Urbana
69. Ronald Cohen, Indiana University-Gary (emeritus)
Laborlore: Finnish Workers Culture and Songs in the upper Midwest:
70. Bucky Halker, independent scholar, chair and discussant
71. Hilary Virtanen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Pienet punaiset laulukirjat: Finnish Americans and their IWW Songs"
72. James P. Leary, University of Winsconsin-Madison, "Yksi Suuri Union: Notes on a Finnish American Workers' Song"
Laborlore: Working Class Country Music and Blues:
74. Bill C. Malone, Tulane University (emeritus), "Country Music and Work: a Lecture in Song"
75. Patrick J. Huber, Missouri University of Science and Technology, "Linthead Stomp: Southern Cotton Millhands and the Creation of Hillbilly Music"
76. David M. Anderson, Louisiana Tech University, "Exiles' on Main Street?: Southern White Migrants and the Transfomation of the Industrial heartland, 1910s -1950s"
77. Roger House, Emerson College, "Black Jazz Musicians in Chicago in the Interwar Years" Laborlore: Workers in Art
78. Cristina Balli, Texas Folklife, "Roel Flores: Farmworker and Artist"
79. John Lear, University of Puget Sound, "Representing labor: Artists, Workers and Union in Mexico in the 1930s"
Laborlore: Workers' Stories, Workers' Media:
80. Pamela Conners, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "'Americans Talk Back': (Re)presenting Workers Stories and Songs on Radio in 1941"
81. Richard March, Wisconsin Arts Board (retired), "Rough Stuff: March Family Lore of CIO Organizing in Chicago"
82. James Lorence, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County (emeritus), "song of the Poet: Don West and Appalachian Culture"
Laborlore/LAWCHA (joint session): Mentors ant the Crossroads: Studs Terkel, Herbert Gutman, Archie Green:
83. Stephen Brier, Graduate School, CUNY, "Legagies of Herbert Gutman"
84. Al Stein, Chicago State University, "Preserving Workers' Stories and Race Identity: Studs Terkel's Place in History"
85. Sean Burns, University of California-Santa Curz, " Always on Stolen Time: Archie Gren's Influences on Labor History, Folklore and American Cultural Studies"
86. Paul Ortiz, University of Florida, Chair and comment
87. Laborlore/LAWCHA Luncheon Included, a short film by Alex Johnston, "Learning to Bend Steel," regarding Archie Green's first day on the job in the San Francisco shipyards
Laborlore/LAWCHA Concert: Class and Song:
88. Betty Fikes (SNCC Freedon Singers, collaborator with Mabis Staples),
with Michael Honey (guitar)
89. An All-Star Band organized by Bucky Halker (Laborlore singer and scholar), and including:
Janey Bean (Freakwater, 11th Dream Day)
Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers)
Bill Brickey (Old Town School of Folk Music)
Don Stiernberg (Jethro Burns, Alice Peacock)
Tom Pierkarski (John Prine)
VII. City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus, July 11, 2015.
Laborlore Conversations VII, with the Labor and Community Studies Department of City College of San Francisco.
90. Sign Display Local 510
91. SEIU Janitor's Local 87
92. La Colectiva de Mujeres
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