Welcome!
Welcome to the website for the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies. Organized in May 2001, the goal of CCWCS is to "make class visible" by working with labor and community organizations to build public dialogue around class issues.
Please contact the co-chairs of the Steering Committee with any questions about the Center.
Bob Bruno bbruno@ad.uiuc.edu
Liesl Miller Orenic lorenic@dom.edu
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Celebrate Labor Day in Pullman!
ILLINOIS STATE HISTORIC SITE AT PULLMAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st
2PM
PULLMAN FACTORY /CLOCKTOWER BUILDING
111th & Cottage Grove Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Festivities include:
Annual Labor Day Bike Ride (a.m.); Rally; Historical Exhibits and Presentations; Music and Performances, special guest speeches.
Event will feature tributes and performances dedicated to early leaders in the history of the Labor Movement: Eugene Debs, A. Philip Randolph, young Jennie Curtiss; with a special tribute to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 75th Anniversary of The New Deal.
Free Admission.
For further information,
contact Tom at tomshepherd2001@yahoo.com - (773) 928-3040; or Larry at larrys@afscmeillinois.org - (312) 641-6060 x4318
visit:
http://members.aol.com/PullmanIL/
Co-Chairs:
Tom Shepherd
Pullman Civic Organization
Event Coordinator
Larry Spivack
President, Illinois Labor History Society
SPONSORED BY: PULLMAN CIVIC ORGANIZATION - ILLINOIS LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY - BRONZEVILLE/CHICAGO BLACK HISTORY SOCIETY - ILLINOIS AFL-CIO CALUMET HERITAGE PARTNERSHIP - HISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION - CHICAGO METRO HISTORY PROJECT - LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT STATE OF ILLINOIS/HISTORIC SITE AT PULLMAN - A. PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE – CHICAGO CENTER FOR WORKING-CLASS STUDIES
THE LABOR TRAIL
The Labor Trail is the product of a joint effort to showcase the many generations of working-class life and struggle in the Chicago area's rich and turbulent past. The Trail's neighborhood tours invite you to get acquainted with the events, places, and people -- often unsung -- who have made the city what it is today. The map, easily adaptable for a variety of walking tours, will be a valuable educational tool for schools, libraries, unions, public history events, and heritage tourism in the region.
With funding from the Illinois Humanities Council, the Labor Trail is co-sponsored by the Illinois Labor History Society, the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Newberry Library’s Scholl Center for Family and Community History, the Chicago Metro History Education Center, and the Liberal Education Department, Columbia College.
The map is Interactive and Online at
http://www.labortrail.org/
To order a print copy of the map:
The LABOR TRAIL maps are $5 each.
Please email Nancy Lahare at nlahare@ad.uiuc.edu
or call 312.996.2623
or send requests and payment to:
Nancy Lahare, CCWCS map coordinator
c/o Chicago Labor Education Program
815 W. Van Buren St.
#110,
Chicago. IL 60607
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 are 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 sexuality.
The Center focuses on the following five types of activities: Cultural, Educational, Research, Community Organizing, and Union Organizing.