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Chicago: Working-Class Event 03/27/03 [Free]

Chicago: Working-Class Event 03/27/03 [Free]
www.laborgroups.org/3-27-03WritingLaborWomen.pdf
Hello Center friends -- Click below to see our next event scheduled for
March
27 at Roosevelt University. Hope you can all attend. We did this
program last year
and got a great crowd and response. Take care.
www.laborgroups.org/3-27-03WritingLaborWomen.pdf

Bob Bruno
Jamie Daniel, Co-Chairs CCWCS

WRITING LABOR, WRITING CLASS II: Women Working

Thursday, March 27, 2003
7:00 p.m.
Roosevelt University's Gage Building
18 S. Michigan, between Madison and Monroe

This event is provided through the cooperative sponsorship of
Roosevelt University's Mansfield Institute for Social Justice.


Following on the success of last year’s “Writing Labor, Writing Class”
event, this event will be an informal reading of poetry, memoirs, and
short
fiction by and about women working, read by local women (and men!) who
are
workers, students, and trade unionists. We will hear inspiring examples
of
how women’s working-class experiences have been made visible and
celebrated
in writing.

The selections will include writing by women (and men!) that conveys the
experiences of women working—on assembly lines, in saleswork, cleaning
offices, doing secretarial work, teaching, making homes and raising
children. They will express what it feels like to do various kinds of
work--as well as what it means to be both female and working class, and,
too
often, to not have one’s work experience recognized. This reading will
attest to the extent to which women’s labor—waged and unwaged-- has been
written about and expressed, quite eloquently and proudly, by the women
doing the work, their children, and others who have understood its value

COME JOIN US FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING
THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WORKING !

The mission of the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies (CCWCS) is
to
bring together individuals from multiple institutions to promote
economic
justice and to address class relationships. CCWCS’ participants will be
guided by their commitment to strengthen the political, economic and
moral
power of working women and men, and to expand an understanding of how
other
identities intersect with class, including race, gender and sexual
orientation. The Center will focus on the following five types of
activities: Cultural, Educational, Research, Community Organizing, Union
Organizing.

The Center is supported by the following institutions: Roosevelt
University,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Labor and Industrial
Relations of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DePaul
University, Chicago Federation of Labor, IBT Local 705, IBEW Local 134,
SEIU
Local 1, UFCW Local 881, Plumbers Local 130, USWA District 7

For additional information about the Center and future activities, or to
become a member of the Center’s mailing list, please call the Chicago
Labor
Education Program office at 312-996-2491 or 312-996-2623, or email
mailto:bbruno (at) uic.edu and mailto:Jdaniel (at) uic.edu.
 
 

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