Ah, some young people, probably getting their doctorates. Good to see them in a group of us old farts (hey, I included meself!). Anyway, as usual, you can see lovely photos only if you e-mail me for the long version which I will send you on attachment. These 3 were:
1) Tim Fowler, the redhead, talking about union issues on 3 episodes of Star Trek, and I learned that the sci-fi TV series are more fair to unions than the other dramas, et al. Not much of a TV buff, but Tim did say that capitalism prevails even on the Star Trek series. He gave the 3 episodes he rated varying degrees of sympathy toward unions and toward strikes; it was interesting.
2) John March, the brunette (See? Young people get a fashion review, sort of like mainstream writers do for women… :) from U. Illinois at Urbana Champaign: Workers poetry from the famous Detroit strikes of the United Auto Workers (when they were just forming between 1936 and 1940). The examples he gave (including a handout, which I typed onto my notes section) were all from the earliest “sit-down,” the GM one. Interesting.
3) Tiffany Knight Raymond, the carmelhaired from U. Southern Cal – She turned out to be the darling of all the history-of-unions buffs in the audience because she talked about Depression Era theatre, especially versions of “Sit-Down!” (Auto Workers) by Wm Titus including a hilarious sounding one about Woolworth women striking called “Million Dollar Baby” that mocked Bing Crosby’s song about finding such a babe working in a Woolworth, also mocked the heiress of Wooworth’s Barbara Hutton, a globetrotter by making the main character, a Woolworth clerk named Barbara Nothing (pronounced Nutton). Tiffancy got MOST of the Q & A attention. Her work does sound fascinating, and I know that it is for her PhD because I met her in another session. Want a little more information and the photos? e-mail me at that same address, cwolfe@pitt.edu