During various Laborlore Conversations, the Fund for Labor Culture & History (FLCH) has offered some 66 individuals in presentations ranging from academic papers, to informal discussions of particular projects, to film showings, and musical performances.

A chronological list follows:

I. Piledriver’s Hall, Oakland, CA – October 2, 2004

1. John Robinson: Publishing Workers’ Stories

2. Bucky Halker: Labor Music, Then & Now

3. Manuel Pena: Undocumented Field Workers Lore

4. Holly Syrracos: An Inventory of Labor Landmarks

5. David Elsila: UAW’s Cultural Programs

6. Will Jones: Southern Lumber Camp Blues

7. Maria Hetherton: A Shipwright’s Artistry

8. Peter Rachleff: Workingclass Counterculture

9. Maria Brooks: Pilebutt: Working Under the Hammer, A Film

10. Stephen Wade: The New Deal’s Vernacular Voice, A Banjo Concert

II. University of North Carolina, Folklore Curriculum Chapel Hill, North Carolina - September 24, 2005

11. Bob McCarl: Tomato Bucket/Pulaski and Running Coat: Artifacts and the ‘Social Dialectic’ of Work

12. Bryan McNeil with Elaine Purkey & Freda Williams: Holding the Thread: Coalfield Activists Discuss Their Efforts in Labor, Community, and Environmental Organizing

13. Tim Prizer: Angelica’s Dirty Laundry: Oral History and Advocacy in Labor Ethnography

14. Charlie Thompson with Don Candelario Gonzalez Moreno and Lupe Huitron: The Guestworker, A Documentary Film

15. Jason Leff: A Snapshot of North Carolina Workers

16. Mike Munoz: Giacomo Patri: Illustrations in Sequence

17. Norm Cohen: The Lowell Factory Girls in 19th Century Songs

18. Ronnie Pugh: A Wry Look at Retirement: Country Music’s ‘Old Age Pension Check’

19. Pat Huber: Red Necks and Red Bandanas: American Coal Miners and the Coloring of Union Solidarity

20. Angie Newsome: When the Thread Unravels: How the Social and Economic Fabric of a Western North Carolina Mill Town Changed When a Textile Company Died

21. Kerry Taylor: Turn to the Working Class: 70s Radicals and the American Worker

22. Various Artists: Bluegrass Concert

III. Ironworkers Hall, Benicia, CA – September 30, 2006

23. Dick Zampa: Family Tradition & Union History

24. John Robinson: Ironworkers on the Zampa Bridge

25. Julie Ardery: Conflict in Presenting Union Traditions

26. Saul Schniderman: An Inventory of Labor Landmarks

27. Tim Kelley: The Garcia & Maggini Warehouse, A Labor Landmark Project

28. Derek Green: Commemorating San Francisco’s First Central Electric Power Station

29. Susan Sherwood: The SFSU Labor Archives

30. Sandra Cate: Tip Jars

31. Pat Huber: Carolina Piedmont Textile Musicians and the Creation of the Modern South

32. Bob Cantwell: Literary Examples of Laborlore

33. Shelly Romalis: Sarah Gunning, Appalachian Balladeer

34. Mike Munoz: Pilebutt Lore

35. Janet Gilmore: Great Lakes Fisheries

36. Maggie Holtzberg: Boston’s Big Dig Project

37. Suzanne Povse: Women in the Philadelphia Metal Trades

38. Maria Brook & Jim McNamee: Shipping Out, A Film

39. Los Cenzontles: Perform Mexican Vernacular Music with Comments by Guillermo Molina

IV. Library of Congress, Washington, DC – August 16, 2007

40. Nick Spitzer: In Katrina’s Wake: The Building Trades in New Orleans

41. Bob McCarl: George Korson’s Pioneering Field Work & Research Ethics

42. Brian McNeil with Elaine Purkey & Freda Williams: Organizing Coal Communities in West Virginia Around Issues of Environmental Degradation and Social Justice

43. Anne Lewis: The ‘Morristown’ Project and Challenges in Community Documentation

44. Barbara Miller: Labor’s Deconstruction at Environmental Sites: Environmental Activism and the Consequences of Heavy Industry

45. Paula Johnson: Assessment of Waterways Work; Representing and Translating the Craft of Labor in the Museum

46. Elaine Eff with Janice Marshall & James Lane: The Changing Nature of Work Traditions in a Watermen’s Community; Issues in Collecting and Collaborating Between Community Scholars and Scholars

47. Carl Fleischhauer: Collecting and Presenting Labor Techniques & Traditions in Paradise Valley, Nevada; Self-documentation Strategies and Methods

48. Maribel Alvarez: Transnational Artisanal Culture on the US-Mexico Border

49. Julie Ardery & Mike Munoz: The Expressive Culture of Giacomo Patri

50. Hal Cannon & Susan Church: Deep West Video Community Documentation Project

51. David Roediger: The Big Red Songbook and a Short History of Labor Song Collecting

52. Hazel Dickens & Mike Seeger: Perform Old Time Music, Joe Wilson Comments

V. Sailor’s Union of Pacific Hall, San Francisco, CA September 20, 2008

53. Jack Wright: Music of Coal, A 2-CD Set

54. Erin Farrell: India Basin Boat Yard

55. John Robinson: Latino Bridge Builders

56. Margie Ryan: Twin Scholarships, UNC & Jack Henning

57. Gunnar Lundeberg: The SUP Hall as a Cultural Treasurehouse

58. Jeff Currie: Lumbee Indians as Sheetrockers

59. Marjorie Hunt: The Smithsonian Institution Meets the National Cathedral’s Stone Carvers

60. Lincoln Cushing: The Labor Poster Book

61. Catherine Powell: San Francisco Labor Landmarks Guide Book

62. Gilbert Gonzalez: The Bracero Film

63. Nari Rhee: Silicon Valley’s New Work Force

64. David Walls: The Red Flag, A Song Study