The Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies is proud to sponsor an exciting panel at this year’s conference of the Working-Class Studies Association, held at Youngstown State University.

06/09/2021, 2:30 – 4:15 pm ET (online)
Sponsored Panel: Working-Class Studies Association Conference 2021
Divide and Work: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in the Organization, Definition, and Structuring of Labor*

• Susan Breitzer, “Trades, Unions, and Combating Working-Class Antisemitism in Early Twentieth Century Chicago” (Independent Scholar)
• Samantha A. Smith, “Harold Minsky, ‘Family-Style’ Burlesque, and Showgirls: Or, Labor as it Relates to Entrepreneurs and Working-Artists in Las Vegas” (Michigan State University)
• Timothy Libretti, “Understanding Supremacist Thought in the U.S.: Confronting the Cultural Underpinnings of Hierarchical Thought in U.S. Class Society” (Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL)
• Jacob Labendz, Moderator/Respondent (Director, YSU Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies)