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Michael Gordon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He teaches courses in American Labor History, the History of Wisconsin, the 1950s, and local history, and serves as the Co-Coordinator of the department's Public History Program, which helps prepare History graduate students for careers in museums and...
Milwaukee Labor History: Struggle, Strikes, and Survival
Academy Evenings in Milwaukee
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Cardinal Strich University Northwestern Mutual Art Gallery 6801 N. Yates Rd.
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
In his Academy Evening, entitled Milwaukee Labor History: Struggle, Strikes, and Survival, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee emeritus professor of history Michael Gordon discusses three eras in Milwaukee labor history, including the Patrick Cudahy Meat Packing Strike of 1987-1989. Held in partnership with Cardinal Stritch University, this Academy Evenings discussion is free and open to the public. The event also heralds the Milwaukee opening of the James Watrous Gallery touring photography exhibition, WISCONSIN LABOR: A CONTEMPORARY PORTRAIT. Come to the gallery early (beginning at 5:00 pm) to see the exhibition, which features the work of two Milwaukee photographers, Tim Abler and Dick Blau. The WISCONSIN LABOR exhibition, on view through November 6, 2011, was organized by the Wisconsin Academy's James Watrous Gallery in Madison and sponsored by the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from Reinhart Boerner van Deuren, s.c.
SERIES OVERVIEW
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters will present a series of three exciting talks this fall in Milwaukee celebrating Wisconsin art and artists and Wisconsin labor history.
