CALL FOR WORKSHOPS This year’s URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat, August 10 – 13, will focus on the politically current issue of immigration. See the program of plenaries and the David Gordon Lecture below. As always, we will fill the weekend with workshops on all aspects of Radical Political Economy (not just immigration). Some workshops will focus on theoretical work, while others will keep us all abreast of active struggles in the US and around the world. If you’d like to generate and participate in some dialogue on your work with others engaged in the same theoretical and real world struggles, please propose a workshop on it – with a group of one or two others if you know some people working on the same topic, or by yourself if not. The workshop coordinator this year is Graham Cassano. Please send your proposal to Graham@xrgb.com. As of late June there is still space for new workshops. In solidarity, the URPE Steering Committee PLENARIES and DAVID GORDON LECTURE FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 7:00 – 9:00. PLENARY 1: THE CHANGING NATURE OF LABOR STRUGGLES IN THE UNITED STATES Theory and Practice: A Labor Activist Reflects on Controversies in Economic Theory. Brian Callaci, Campaigner, UNITE HERE. Building the Movement for a New Social Contract in New Haven, Connecticut and Beyond. Gwen Mills, CT/RI Political Director, UNITE HERE; Community Organizer, Connecticut Center for a New Economy. Rebuilding the U.S. Labor Movement: Competing Visions and the Road Not Taken. Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11 7:00 – 9:00. PLENARY 2: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION Female Migrant Labor and the Global Integration of Labor Markets. Salimah Valiani, Social and Economic Policy Department of the Canadian Labor Congress. Economic Insecurity and Remittances as Causes for Migration. Alex Julca, Researcher. Migration Chains to Chained Migration: The Rise of the U.S. Temporary Migrants. Manny Ness, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY. A currently available previous book of his on this subject is Unions, Immigrants and the New US Labor Market. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 4:00 – 5:30. The DAVID GORDON LECTURE Radical Economics and Social Change Movements: Strengthening the Links between Academics and Activists. Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers union; Economics columnist, The Globe and Mail newspaper. OTHER WORKSHOPS WILL INCLUDE: The Current State of Labor Studies Programs After the War is Over: The Political Economy of the US Neoliberal Military State Competition: The Birth of a New Science Immigration, Emigration, and the Irish Past and Present Political Economy Perspectives of Financial Institutions in Economic Development Class Analysis and the Soviet Union Theoretical Constructions of Household Production The Pillars of Marxist Theory Welfare Transformed: The Hidden Story The Political Economy of Motherhood Monopoly Capitalism, Class Consciousness, and Organizing The High Cost of Free Trade Film and Discussion: Sacco andVanzetti Cuba Update Report on the Atlanta Social Forum Book Symposium—The Politics of Immigration