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Martin J Bennett |
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Joannie C Chang |
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Luis A Cuellar |
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Fred Glass Labor and Community Studies Department B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Fred Glass has been a member of the CCSF faculty for the past seventeen years.
He believes that, through labor studies, union activists and the general student population can gain a stronger grasp of the meaning of civic involvement in a democratic society.
He is the author of "70 Years: A History of the California Federation of Teachers" (1989). His ten-part documentary video series on the history of the California labor movement, "Golden Lands, Working Hands" (1999), aired on most PBS stations in California, and every public high school in the state has a copy. He has also written many articles on labor and media related topics for union and academic publications (Labor Studies Journal, Afterimage, Film Quarterly, Labor's Heritage, etc.), as well as more topical pieces for daily newspapers (SF Examiner, SF Chronicle).
Fred has been the Communications Director for the California Federation of Teachers for fifteen years. He oversaw the media work for the three year contract struggle of lecturers in the University of California system, which ended with path-breaking gains for contingent faculty. He served two terms as President of the Western Labor Communications Association, and currently is a member of the Speaker's Commission on Labor Education for the California Legislature. He is a member of AFT Local 2121, the San Francisco Community College Federation of Teachers.
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Linda Gregory |
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Christopher M. Hanzo |
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Pamela Tau Lee |
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Warren Mar Labor Studies Department |
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Sonya Z Mehta |
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Thomas Ryan Labor and Community Studies Department Biography will be forthcoming. |
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Renee M Saucedo Labor and Community Studies Department B.A. in Political Science, UC Berkeley |
Professor Saucedo has been teaching at CCSF since 2007.
She is currently a part-time instructor in the Labor and Community Studies Department, teaching courses on Latino workers in the United States and the historical organizing struggles of Latino workers. Professor Saucedo has worked for almost 20 years as a community attorney, advocate, and organizer, promoting the rights of immigrant workers, particularly undocumented workers. She is known for her work to empower day laborers and domestic workers. Professor Saucedo believes that learning about the organizing of Latino workers in the United States inspires students to become involved in social and worker justice work.
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Harvey Schwartz Labor and Community Studies Department A.B. History, Stanford University |
Professor Schwartz taught in the Labor Studies Department from 1978-1981. Since then he has done substitute teaching in the Department on an "as needed" basis.
His goal in teaching is to bring the history and culture of labor to the attention of students. Professor Schwartz says, "If the ultimate aim of a Labor Studies Program is to build a social justice movement, we need to know what happened in the past, both good and bad. Labor education can also instill pride in the heritage of the American Labor Movement, which should prove an essential ingredient if we are to progress beyond the limits of the past."
He spends most of his time as Curator of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Oral History Collection.
Professor Schwartz has authored the following books: The March Inalnd: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division, 1934-1938 (1978, 2000); The ILWU Story: Six Decades of Militant Unionism, with Eugene Vrana and Steve Stallone (1997, 2004); Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU (in press for publication in Spring 2009. He has also written short histories of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Locals 22, 180, and 751.
Professor Schwartz attends meetings of the Bay Area Labor History Workshop and thge Copra Labor Landmark Association (is this a hobby or a calling?).
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William F Shields Chair, Labor and Community Studies Department B.A., Yale University |
Professor Shields has been a member of the CCSF faculty for since 1993. He has been the Chair of Labor and Community Studies since 1995.
His instructional philosophy is based on the idea of student empowerment. Whether working with students from unions, community-based organizations, vocational classes or the transfer program, he aims to give students the information they need to make informed decisions about their lives and about our society.
Using techniques derived from the labor and popular education movements, he mixes lectures with discussions, role-playing, student presentations and music to explore class themes. His hope is that students will finish his classes with a sharper sense of power relations in our society and how they affect them and also with heightened analytical and critical thinking skills. As the inscription on the Science Building says, "And the truth will make you free." In his classes, whether history, employment rights, leadership training or social action theater, he helps students uncover the important truths of our time.
Professor Shields helped restructure his department, adding community studies and environmental justice courses. He has served on the VATEA Grant Committee, the Vocational Education Advisory Committee and is a San Francisco Labor Council delegate for AFT Local 2121. He is also active with the Department Chair Council.
In recent years, he has helped bring two important conferences to the college, "Educating for Justice - Teaching for Labor and Community Power" in 2007 and "Reviving the New Deal" in Fall 2008.
Professor Shields wrote and produced the Pacifica Radio Docudrama Series "Rising Waters, the Drama of the Militant Thirties". He was a founding member of the Bay Area Labor Theater, where he wrote, directed and performed theater about working class life. He is a member of the United Association for Labor Education and a Board Member of the Center for Labor Research and Education at U.C. Berkeley and of the Labor Studies Advisory Board at San Francisco State. A father of two children, he is past president of the James Lick Middle School PTSA.
In his leisure time, Professor Shields enjoys spending time with his family and being involved in his children's schools, as well as outdoor activities such as hiking and boating.
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Lamoin Werlein-Jaen |
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Patricia Wynne Labor and Community Studies Department B.A., Hunter College; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Ms. Wynne has been a member of the CCSF faculty since 1994.
At present Ms. Wynne is directing the Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus. She is also a voice teacher, building voices and teaching basic technique. Ms. Wynne believes that singers that approach singing the same way technically will sound better together as a chorus. She also believes that in a participatory democracy, it is important to raise our voices together. The vocal technique helps us to not lose our voices. She teaches the labor history of the songs so that singers will understand the context and history of what they are singing.
Ms. Wynne has published "Teaching Labor History Through Song", Women's Studies Quarterly, Spring/Summer 1998; "Days of a Red Diaper Daughter", Liberating Memory, "Our Work and Our Working Class Consciousness", edited by Janet Zandy, Rutgers University Press, 1994. She has recorded the following: "Labor of Love-Songs of Work and Play"; "Working Women's Songs"; "Mother/Daughter Suite"; and the Freedom Song Network tapes - "This Line is Singing" and "Can't Keep Us Quiet".
She is a musician - singer, pianist and song writer, as well as performing in a two woman show "Working Women's Stories and Songs" and is a founding member of the Freedom Song Network.