127th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2013): Constructing a Global Twentieth-Century Workforce: Outside Investors, Local Leaders, and Indigenous Workers

Constructing a Global Twentieth-Century Workforce: Outside Investors, Local Leaders, and Indigenous Workers

Labor and Working-Class History Association 6

Friday, January 4, 2013: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Ellendale Room (Sheraton New Orleans)

Chair:

Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara

Papers:

Surplus Populations, Contingency, and Economic Recession: Histories from Korean Day Workers in Interwar Japan
Ken Kawashima, University of Toronto

Creating an American Island: The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) in Ghana, 1964–2000
Stephan F. Miescher, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Business of Education: The Growth and Development of American Postwar Research Universities
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago

Comment:

Jennifer Klein, Yale University

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