Faculty Collections
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Title
Michael Zweig Papers
Collection Number
UA 2191
OCLC Number
In-process
Creator
Michael Zweig,1944-
Provenance
Donated by Michael Zweig in 2017.
Extent,Scope, and Content Note
The collection is comprised of 5.3 linear ft. of: Michael Zweig's records for annual
conferences held at Stony Brook University (How Class Works; Center for Study of Working
Class Life); scholarship presented at conferences; correspondence; personal files;
and papers related to his career created between 1968 and 2016. Subject coverage includes the
working class, middle class, economics, social history, and Stony Brook University
history.
Arrangement and Processing Note
The collection was processed by Kristen J. Nyitray and Lynn Toscano in February 2017. Updated in June 2019.
The papers have been arranged in series order.
Series 1: How Class Works
Series 2: Center for Study of Working Class Life
Series 3: Stony Brook University
Language
English
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Rights and Permissions
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection
does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole
responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials
to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission
where needed prior to publication.
Citation
[Item], [Box], Michael Zweig Papers, Special Collections and University Archives,
Stony Brook University Libraries.
Historical Note
Michael Zweig (1944- ) is Professor Emeritus, Economics and former Director of the
Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony
Brook, where he received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He
is active in his union, United University Professions (AFT Local 2190), representing
35,000 faculty and professional staff throughout SUNY and has been elected to two
terms on its state executive board. His books include What's Class Got to Do with
It?: American Society in the Twenty-first Century, Religion and Economic Justice,
and The Idea of a World University.
Selected Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Introduction to Economics
Marxist Political Economy
Labor Economics
Class Structure of the United States
Selected Publications:
"Six Points on Class," in Monthly Review, 58, 3, July-august 2006.
Executive Producer, "Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour."
"Class as a Question in Economics," in John Russo and Sherry Linkon (eds.) New Working-Class
Studies, Cornell University Press, 2005.
What's Class Got to Do with it? American Society in the Twenty-first Century, (editor)
Cornell University Press, 2004.
The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret, Cornell University Press,
2000.
"Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A New Design for Introductory Economics," (with
William Dawes), The American Economist, 44(2), Fall 2000.
"Teaching to Student Values in the Early Nineties," Review of Radical Political Economics,
1992.
Religion and Economic Justice, (editor) Temple University Press, 1991.
Awards:
State University Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991
President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991
Subjects
Zweig, Michael, -- 1942-
Working class -- United States.
Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions.
Working class -- Political activity -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Working class.
Working class -- Political activity.
United States.
Stony Brook University.
State universities and colleges.
Stony Brook (N.Y.)
INVENTORY
| Series | Box | Folder(s) | Title |
| Series 1 | Box 1 | 1-7 |
How Class Works: 2002
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 1 |
How Class Works: 2002, evaluations
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 2 |
How Class Works: 2002, plenary speakers
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 3 |
How Class Works: 2002, preparation
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 4 |
How Class Works: 2002, press
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 5-6 |
How Class Works: 2004
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 7 |
How Class Works: 2004, evaluations
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 8 |
How Class Works: 2004, plenary speakers
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 9 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals
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| Series 1 | Box 2 | 10 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals, community
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| Series 1 | Box 3 | 1 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals, global
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| Series 1 | Box 3 | 2 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals. middle class, working class
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| Series 1 | Box 3 | 3 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals, miscellaneous
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| Series 1 | Box 3 | 4 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals, mosaic
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| Series 1 | Box 3 | 5 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals, pedagogy
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| Series 1 | Box 3 | 6 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals, power, social structure
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| Series 1 | Box 3 | 7 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals, public policy
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| Series 1 | Box 3 | 8 |
How Class Works: 2004, proposals, representations
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| Series 1 | Box 4 | 1-2 |
How Class Works: 2006
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| Series 1 | Box 4 | 3-5 |
How Class Works: 2006, proposals
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| Series 1 | Box 4 | 6 |
How Class Works: 2004, evaluations
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| Series 1 | Box 4 | 7 |
How Class Works: 2004, John Milios
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| Series 1 | Box 4 | 8 |
How Class Works: 2004, declined proposals
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 1 |
How Class Works: 2008
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 3 |
How Class Works: 2008, evaluations
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 4 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 5 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals, class and community
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 6 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals, class and culture
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 7 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals, class in a global community
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 8 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals, class, power, and social structure
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 9 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals, class, public policy, and electoral politics
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 10 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals, class, race, and gender
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 11 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals, middle class, working class
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 12 |
How Class Works: 2008, proposals, pedagogy
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 13 |
How Class Works: 2008, National Labor College strategy session
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| Series 1 | Box 5 | 14 |
How Class Works: 2008, Ted Allen Symposium
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| Series 1 | Box 6 | 1-3 |
How Class Works: 2010
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| Series 1 | Box 6 | 4 |
How Class Works: 2010, session chair reports
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| Series 1 | Box 6 | 5 |
How Class Works: 2010, evaluations
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| Series 1 | Box 7 | 1-4 |
How Class Works: 2012
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| Series 1 | Box 7 | 5 |
How Class Works: 2012, budget
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 1 |
How Class Works: 2014
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 2 |
How Class Works: 2014, budget
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 3 |
How Class Works: 2014, evaluations
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 4 |
How Class Works: 2014, proposals
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 5 |
How Class Works: 2014, proposals, global
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 6 |
How Class Works: 2014, proposals, power and social structure
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 7 |
How Class Works: 2014, proposals, middle class and working class
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 8 |
How Class Works: 2014, proposals, poverty
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 9 |
How Class Works: 2014, proposals, public policy, electoral
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| Series 1 | Box 8 | 10 |
How Class Works: 2014, proposals, race and gender
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 1 |
How Class Works: 2016
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 2 |
How Class Works: 2016, evaluations
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 3 |
How Class Works: 2016, plenary speakers
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 4 |
How Class Works: 2016, proposals
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 5 |
How Class Works: 2016, class, community, and the environment
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 6 |
How Class Works: 2016, class in a global community
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 7 |
How Class Works: 2016, class in an age of income inequality
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 8 |
How Class Works: 2016, class, power, and social structure
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 9 |
How Class Works: 2016, class, public policy, and electoral politics
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 10 |
How Class Works: 2016, middle class, working class
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 11 |
How Class Works: 2016, pedagogy of class
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| Series 1 | Box 9 | 12 |
How Class Works: 2016, mosaic of class, race, and gender
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| Series 2 | Box 10 | 1 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: advisory board
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| Series 2 | Box 10 | 2 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: advisory board
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| Series 3 | Box 10 | 3-4 |
Stony Brook University: cluster hire proposal (some closed documents)
|
| Series 2 | Box 10 | 5 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: conference, Fiscal Crisis Through the Lens,
March 2003
|
| Series 2 | Box 10 | 6 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: conference, Unseen America Press, 2001
|
| Series 3 | Box 11 | 1 |
Stony Brook University: FAHSS Interdisciplinary Fund Grant grant proposal, 2012
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| Series 2 | Box 11 | 2 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: flyers and promotional materials
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| Series 2 | Box 11 | 3 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: founding
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| Series 2 | Box 11 | 4 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: graduate assistantship
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| Series 2 | Box 11 | 5 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: minor proposal
|
| Series 2 | Box 11 | 6-8 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: NEH grant proposal, 2003
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| Series 2 | Box 12 | 1-3 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: NEH grant proposal, 2003
|
| Series 2 | Box 12 | 4 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: Playback Theater
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| Series 2 | Box 12 | 5 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: Reverend William Barber, 2015
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| Series 2 | Box 12 | 6 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: Theodore Allen Scholarship
|
| Series 3 | Box 12 | 7 |
writngs and films by Michael Zweig
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| Series 2 | Box 13 | 1-2 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: correspondence
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| Series 2 | Box 13 | 3 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: correspondence, College of Arts and Sciences
|
| Series 2 | Box 13 | 4 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: Working Class Studies Seminar
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| Series 3 | Box 14 | 1 |
Stony Brook University: Affirmative Action
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| Series 3 | Box 14 | 2 |
Stony Brook University: Black Students United, 1969
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| Series 3 | Box 14 | 3 |
Stony Brook University: Chile, 1978
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| Series 3 | Box 14 | 4 |
Stony Brook University: conference, Religion, the Economy and Social Justice, 1978
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| Series 3 | Box 14 | 5-6 |
Stony Brook University: drug case, 1968-1969
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| Series 3 | Box 14 | 7-9 |
Stony Brook University: Fred Dube
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| Series 3 | Box 15 | 1-3 |
Stony Brook University: Fred Dube
|
| Series 3 | Box 15 | 4 |
Stony Brook University: Faculty Senate, 1960s
|
| Series 3 | Box 15 | 5-6 |
Stony Brook University: Graduate School, 1968-1969
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| Series 3 | Box 15 | 7-8 |
Stony Brook University: International Jewish Peace Union Teach-in, 1989
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| Series 3 | Box 16 | 1 |
Stony Brook University: Israel Palestine Two-State Teach-in,1989, media
|
| Series 3 | Box 16 | 2 |
Stony Brook University: Israel Palestine Two-State Teach-in,1989, video documentation
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| Series 3 | Box 16 | 3 |
Stony Brook University: Israel Palestine Two-State Teach-in,1989, grant
|
| Series 3 | Box 16 | 4 |
Stony Brook University: Israel Palestine Two-State Teach-in,1989, transcript
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| Series 3 | Box 16 | 5-6 |
Stony Brook University: Israel Palestine Two-State Teach-in, 1989, program
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| Series 3 | Box 16 | 8 |
Stony Brook University: strike, spring 1970
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| Series 3 | Box 16 | 9 |
Stony Brook University: Three Days Self-Study, 1968
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| Series 3 | Box 16 | 10 |
Stony Brook University: documents on the draft, Black Panthers, cafeteria strike,
and United University Professions
|
| Series 3 | Box 16 | 11 |
Stony Brook University: drugs, 1968
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| Series 3 | Box 16 | 12 |
Stony Brook University: Department of Defense
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| Series 3 | Box 16 | 13 |
Stony Brook University: student and faculty issues, 1968-1970
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| Series 2 | Box 17 |
Center for Study of Working Class Life: flyers, posters, and promotional materials
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