Friday, November 20 / 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM • Room 404 (4th Floor)

Session 135
Empire, Race, and Labour Movements

Chair: James Parisot, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

1. From Unions to Parties: Comparing the Transformation of Race in Three British Colonies • Zophia Edwards, Johns Hopkins University.

2. The Aristocratic Origins of the Welfare State: Demesnial Protection Pacts and Labor Policy in Iran and Thailand, 1945-63 • Zep Kalb, Princeton University.

3. Empire at the Factory Gate: Martyrdom and the Visual Culture of Maoist Labour Internationalism in the 1970s • Kristin Plys, University of Toronto.

4. Springboards or Wedges: Communal and Union Solidarity in Colonial Tunisia • Keenan Wilder, Brown University.

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