The Center for Study of Working Class Life is dedicated to exploring the meaning of class in today’s world. Looking at society through the lens of class clarifies many important social questions in new ways – why the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, what attacks on government programs through privatization mean, why the suburbs aren’t really a middle class haven, how the « family values » debate impacts our lives, and much more. We are an interdisciplinary effort of faculty and staff at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, founded in November, 1999 …
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How class works, Conference June 5-7, 2008;
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address: Center for Study of Working Class Life, Michael Zweig, Director, Dept. of Economics, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384, 631-632-7536, e-mail;
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About: The Center for Study of Working Class Life pursues its purposes through a number of activities. Some have already begun. Others are yet to come as our work develops and new sources of support come into play.
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