Penny Lewis

Chapters and Articles

• “Changing the Subject: A Bottom Up Account of Occupy Wall Street in New York City,” co-author with Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce, Murphy Institute, CUNY. Russell Sage Foundation Report. January 2013.
• “The Genie’s Out of the Bottle: Insiders Perspectives on Occupy Wall Street,” co-author with Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce, Sociological Quarterly 54 (2013), 194-8.
• “Labor and Occupy: An Appraisal of the First Six Months,” co-author with Stephanie Luce, New Labor Forum 21 (2), Spring 2012, 43-49.
• “New York City, Academic Labor Town,” co-author with Ashley Dawson, in Andrew Ross, Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm (eds.), The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace, Temple University Press, 2008.
• “Trade Union Unity League,” “Communism and Unions,” essays in Robert Wier and James P. Hanlan (eds.), Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor, Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005.
• “Collective Memory of Vietnam Antiwar Protest,” in Colin Barker and Mike Tyldesley (eds.), Alternative Futures and Popular Protest X, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005.

Invited Talks

• “History of Labor’s Political Strategies,” Retirees Chapter, Professional Staff Congress, October 2018
• “People’s History of New York City,” SIT Study Abroad, New York, August 2018
• “How Will Janus Vs Afscme Affect the Union Landscape,” New York State United Teachers Leadership training conference, October 28, 2017
• “City is the Factory,” Urban Democracy Lab, New York University, November 6, 2017
• “Right to Work and the Future of the Public Sector,” Queens College, September 28, 2017
• “Right to the City,” Museum of the City of New York, August 3, 2017
• “Unions in the Trump Era,” Democratic Socialists of America Labor Section, New York, December 14, 2016
• “What Unions Do,” presentation to members and staff from the New York City City Council, at the offices of DC 37 125 Barclay Street, NY, May 2015
• “Class Dynamics of The Vietnam Antiwar Movement,” at The Vietnam War Then and Now: Assessing the Critical Lessons, Kroc Institute for Peace, held at NYU Center in Washington DC, May 2015
• “Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks: The Antiwar Movement Remembered” Baker Peace Conference, Ohio University, Athens OH March 2015
• “Hardhats Hippies and Hawks,” Adelphi University, NY November 2014
• “Hardhats Hippies and Hawks,” Professional Staff Congress, Retirees Luncheon, NY September 2014
• “A Brief History of Occupy Wall Street and Its Aftermath,” RENGO, Tokyo, Japan, July 2014
• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Class, American Colleges of the South, two day workshop, Furman University, Greenville, North Carolina, June 2014
• “Social class and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement,” Social Movements seminar, Barnard College April 2014
• “Labor and Affordable Housing,” New York Central Labor Council, Feb 20 2014
• “Worker Cooperatives,” Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, New York, January 30, 2014
• “Occupy: Roots, Strategy and Future,” New York University, December 2013
• “Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks,” Left Labor Project, 1199, New York, June 27, 2013
• “From Hardhats v. Hippies to Occupying Wall Street: Class and Social Protest in the US,” Sociology Colloquium Series, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 2013
• “Where Hast Thou Been, Occupy?” Panelist, Just Giving Conference 2013, sponsored by the Edge Funders Alliance, May 2013
• “New Developments in the Labor Movement: Can the Unions Survive/Revive or is
• a New Strategy for the Labor Movement Necessary?” Final panel of one-day conference, “Where is the Labor Movement Now and Where is it Going?” Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2013
• “Progressive Global Economic and Social Policy”, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, New York, December, 2012
• “Women and Labor Leadership,” Athena Honors Program, Barnard College, November 2012
• “What Labor and Occupy Can Learn from Each Other,” New York Society for Ethical Culture, September, 2012
• “Occupy Wall Street and Organized Labor,” Annual Meeting of the Organization for American Historians, Milwaukee, WI, April 2012
• “Labor Community Coalitions,” Respondent, Higher Education Conference, American Federation of Teachers, Chicago, IL March 2012
• “Labor and Occupy Wall Street,” n + 1 Journal, New York City, November 2011
• “Honoring and Engaging Aronowitz: Rethinking Labor and the Labor Movement,” Left Forum, New York, March, 2011
• “Labor Rights and Faculty,” Professional Staff Congress Junior Faculty Orientation, New York City Technical College, April 2010
• “Situating the Vietnam Antiwar Movement: The Development and Growth of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement in the Context of Civil Rights Struggles,” New School University, April 2009
• “Academic Labor,” How Class Works, Stonybrook, June 2008
• Guest Speaker for “In the Year of the Pig,” dir. Emile De Antonio, Labor Goes to the Movies, PSC, April 2008
• “Bridging Working-Class and Middle-Class Activism,” Jobs With Justice National Meeting, St. Louis, October 2005
• “The Politics and Strategy of Labor,” Radicalism in Labor: Radical Approaches to the Crisis in the Labor Movement Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, November 2005
• Guest Speaker for “Norma Rae,” dir. Martin Ritt, Labor Goes to the Movies, PSC, November 2004
• “Labor and Globalization,” Teamsters Local 237, New York City, April 2004

Panel and Conference Facilitation

• “Membership Mobilization and Collective Bargaining in an Open Shop Environment,” Afternoon workshop co-Presider, Presenter and Facilitator, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions
• “Energy From Unlikely Sources,” Panel facilitator, School of Labor and Urban Studies, October 12, 2018
• “Janus and Beyond: The Future of Public Sector Unions,” Conference Organizer and presider, November 17, 2017
• “Austerity and Public Education,” Panel facilitator, Murphy Institute, November 2016
• “The Occupy Movement”, Roundtable discussant, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association, Seattle, August 2016
• “Fighting Walmart,” Chair and Discussant, Thematic Session, American Sociological Association, Seattle, 2016
• “Relations of Media Production in Occupy Wall Street,” Politics and Protest Workshop Discussant, May 2016
• “Infrastructures of Labor,” Chair and Discussant, Urban Democracy Lab, New York University, December 2014.
• “For Democracy and a Caste System? World War II, Race, and Democratic Inclusion in the United States,” Politics and Protest Workshop Paper Discussant, CUNY Graduate Center, October 2014
• “Strategic Interaction Spirals: The Case of Occupy Nashville,” Politics and Protest Workshop Paper Discussant, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2014
• “Social Inequality and Social Movements,” Discussant, American Sociological Association, New York, August, 2013
• “Expanding the Boundaries of the US Labor Movement,” Discussant, American Sociological Association, New York, August, 2013
• “The New Movements: We Won’t Pay for Your Crisis-We Are Your Crisis,” Chair and Discussant, Labor And Working Class History Association Conference, June 2013
• “Arts and Labor,” Panel facilitator, Arts and Labor Working Group, P!, New York, January 2013
• “May Day 2012 – Coalition Formation,” Plenary Organizer and Facilitator, How Class Works, Stonybrook, NY June 2012
• “Piven/West Fight Back Teach In,” Speaker, Co-coordinated NYC local activists, Judson Memorial Church, April 2011
• “Writing Across the Curriculum: Current Research, Current Problems,” Conference Organizer and presenter, BMCC, 2008
• “NYC Activists Meet Sociologists,” American Sociological Association Presidential reception, Organizer and Coordinator, New York, 2007
• “Using Media in Teaching Inequality,” Panel Chair, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, 2007
• “How to Survive (and Thrive!) in Your First Five Years at CUNY,” Professional Staff Congress, Conference Organizer and Facilitator, Baruch College, 2004 and 2005