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:

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/

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.