Upcoming Events

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• May 22, 2024: David Miller Memorial Lecture - Dr. Steve Babson
  Dr. Steve Babson joins Wayne State for Labor@Wayne's David Miller Memorial Lecture. Babson's talk, titled "The Great Fear, Then and Now: Dave Miller Faced HUAC in His Time, As We Now Face the Threat to Democracy in Ours," begins by examining the life of David Miller, a prominent target of the HUAC in 1952, when HUAC's proceedings focused on the labor left in the UAW. This pressure led not only to the firing and blacklisting of many labor activists (including future mayor Coleman Young), but also to vigilante violence that forced leftists and militants out of many Detroit plants. Fast forward to today, and we face similar prospects of political retribution and hostility towards labor, depending on the results of our elections. But how do we respond to the Great Fear of our own time, before and after election day? The David Miller Memorial lecture is sponsored by Labor@Wayne, the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, and the Reuther Archives. It will be held at the Wayne State Student Center on May 22nd, from 4PM to 6PM, in Room 010.
   
• The North American Labor History Conference
  October 10 - 12, 2024
  The WSU Department of History, Labor@Wayne, and the Reuther Library celebrate the return of the North American Labor History Conference. The NALHC showcased an entire generation of labor scholars with cutting-edge research, and gave budding graduate students their start, not to mention serving as the launching pad for the Labor and Working-Class History Association.  Elizabeth Faue, long-time coordinator of the conference and current Director of Labor@Wayne, will be leading the team to reinstate this vital conference.
  Call for Papers
   
• Bluestone and Miller Lectures, Labor Leaders Forum, and other events
  Fall-Winter 2024-2025

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