Depressions, Then and Now

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Thursday, September 22
7:00 PM
ICC Auditorium (new window)

David Montgomery, Yale University “Depressions as a Basic Feature of Working-Class life: The Long View”
Edward Montgomery, Dean, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, ”How Workers and the Government Have Dealt with Economic Crisis and Industrial Decline: 1929 and 2009”
Steve Fraser, Co-Founder, The American Empire Project, Commentator
Alice Kessler-Harris, President of the Organization of American  Historians, and professor Columbia University, Commentator
Julie Greene, University of Maryland, Chair

This event is featured as the keynote event in, Workers and World Crises: A Conference of Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas.