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          Labor historian to deliver annual McBride lecture

          
            
              
                
                Published: March 18, 2008
              

              
                Author: Shannon  Roddel
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Nelson Lichtenstein, a pre-eminent historian of American labor from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), will deliver a lecture titledCan the Unions Organize Again? What Will it Take to Make Wal-Mart a Union Shop?at 7:30 p.m. March 27 (Thursday) in 131 DeBartolo Hall at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored by Notre Dames Higgins Labor Research Center as part of the McBride Lecture series, the talk is free and open to the public.

A professor of history, Lichtenstein specializes in 20th century U.S. labor history and directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at UCSB.He is the editor ofWal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalismand currently is working on a history of the worlds largest corporation, explaining how transformations in the technology and structure of the retail sector have enabled big merchants to assume a commanding role in the production as well as the distribution of the worlds goods.

The McBride Lecture evolved from a lecture series established by the United Steelworkers of America in 1977to better understand the principles of unionism and our economy.Beginning in 1997, the lecture was named to honor Lloyd McBride, the fourth international president of the United Steelworkers.

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