Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives
"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.
Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives Brown Bag Series
‘Laureate of the Logging Camps’: The Representation of Labor and Labourers in the Writing of T-Bone Slim
Speaker:
Owen Clayton, School of English and Journalism, University of Lincoln (UK)
Date/Time:
Thursday, February 11, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information
Midnight in Vehicle City: Telling the Story of the Flint Sit-down Strike
Speaker:
Edward McClelland, Author of Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
Date/Time:
Monday, March 1, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information
(Re)Discovering Work Can Be Dangerous: Occupational Health and Safety in the Long 1970s
Speaker:
Elizabeth Faue, Department of History, Wayne State University
Date/Time:
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information
Inside the Early Twentieth Century Working Class Family: Kin, Work and Neighborhood
Speaker:
Shannon Kirkwood
Date/Time:
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information
Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives Audio Archive
The MSU Voice Library has multiple audio resources based on Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bags.
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Fall 2020
Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide
Speaker:
Lane Windham, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown UniversityDate/Time:
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Migrant Workers Struggling Across All Boundaries: Defiant Braceros, 1942 - 1964
Speaker:
Mireya Loza, Food Studies Department, New York UniversityDate/Time:
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm(co-sponsored by the MSU Chicano Latino Studies Program and the MSU Julian Samora Research Institute)
Red Jerseys in Detroit: Soccer and Industrial Workers, 1926 - 30
Speaker:
Gabe Logan, Department of History, Northern Michigan UniversityDate/Time:
Friday, October 23, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Barbed Wire Workplace: The Forced Labor of World War II Japanese American Prisoners
Speaker:
Stacey Camp, Department of Anthropology, MSUDate/Time:
Monday, November 9, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm