Suggested paper/panel themes:
1. Immigrant Workers and Unionization Then and Lessons for Today
2. Women workers in the Bread & Roses Strike: Are There Lessons for Today?
3. How Did the Strike Story Resonate Beyond Lawrence?
4. Commemoration and Memory: How Lawrence Recalls the Strike
5. Teaching Strikes: Bread & Roses and Labor Studies
6. Community – Labor Coalitions for Change
7. Labor Activism and Political Repression
8. Strikes and Social Change: Then and Now
9. How the International Press Covered the Strike
10. Worker and Community Health and Safety in Lawrence Then and Now
11. The Hazards of Working with Wool
12. Imaging a Sustainable Lawrence: What Might 2062 Hold?
13. Organized Labor and the Church: Then and Now
14. The Roles of Music, Art and Spoken Word in Telling Labor’s Story
15. Immigrant Communities Then and Now
Submit to: symposium2012@breadandrosescentennial.org