"Our Daily Work / Our Daily Lives" is a joint project that focuses on the artistic traditions of workers and on workplaces as contexts for the expression of workers culture. The richness and diversity of workers' experiences and workers culture is explored and presented through an ongoing series of exhibits, lectures, and presentations; writing and research projects; reunions; and demonstrations and discussions.
The program was established in 1992 and is coordinated by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program at the MSU Museum and the Labor Education Program in the College of Social Science's School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
Speaker:
Salem Elzway, History Department, University of Michigan
Date/Time:
Thursday, October 6, 2022
12:15pm - 1:30pm ET
Location: via Zoom. Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information.
Co-sponsored by Capital Area Motorcities
Speaker:
Gabriel Winant, History Department, University of Chicago, the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Date/Time:
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
12:15pm - 1:30pm ET
Location: via Zoom. Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information.
Speaker:
Kevin Moskowitz, History Department, University of Texas – Arlington
Date/Time:
Friday, November 18, 2022
12:15pm - 1:30pm ET
Location: via Zoom. Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information.
Co-sponsored by Capital Area Motorcities
Speaker:
Natalie Behrends, History Department, Harvard University
Date/Time:
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
12:15pm - 1:30pm ET
Location: via Zoom. Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information.
Speaker:
Debbie Goldman, Former Research Director, Communication Workers of America
Date/Time:
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
12:15pm - 1:30pm ET
Location: via Zoom. Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information.
Speaker:
Jason Kozlowski, New York Public Schools
Date/Time:
Friday, February 24, 2023
12:15pm - 1:30pm ET
Location: via Zoom. Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information.
Speaker:
Eshe Sherley, History Department, University of Michigan
Date/Time:
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
12:15pm - 1:30pm ET
Location: via Zoom. Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information.
Co-sponsored by MSU African American and African Studies
The MSU Voice Library has multiple audio resources based on Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bags.