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Conference Schedule

Catholic Social Teaching and Worker Justice
Villanova University
M
arch 22-23, 2010

Schedule of Events

Monday, March 22
 
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Registration
 
  1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Welcome
Barbara Wall
Vice President for Mission & Ministry

Putting Workers First:
Catholic Social Teaching & Southwest Airlines

Oliver Williams, CSC
University of Notre Dame
 
  3:00 PM - 4:15 PM Worker Justice & Sex Trafficking:
Intersections and Tensions

Michelle Dempsey
Villanova School of Law
 
  4:30 PM - 5:45 PM Building a New Social Contract at Work:
A Moral and Social Imperative

Thomas Kochan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
  5:45 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner on your own
 
  7:30 PM Folksongs and the U.S. Labor Movement
Corey Dolgon
Worcester State College
 
Tuesday, March 23
 
  9:00 AM -  9:45 AM Continental Breakfast
 
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM Welcome and Introduction
Rev. Peter Donohue, OSA
President, Villanova University

Catholic Social Teaching and Worker Justice
Most Reverend William Murphy
Bishop of Rockville Center, NY
 
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM American Catholics and Labor:
A History in Documents

Maria Mazzenga
Catholic University of America
 
12:45 PM -  1:30 PM Lunch on your own
 
  1:30 PM -  2:45 PM The only Happy Casualty of the Great Recession:
Economic Bromides

Josh Bivens
Economic Policy Institute
 
  3:00 PM -  4:15 PM Concurrent Sessions

Psychological Contracts of Meatpacking Workers and
Their Perceptions of Organizational Justice

Maria Teresa Gaston - Creighton University

Catholic Social Teaching at Work
Teresa Mambu-Rasch - Sweet & Associates, LLC

The Dignity of Work and
the Perversion of Justice in Work

Godwin Duru - Ohio Dominican University

The Ethics of Prison Labor
Andrew Skotnicki - Manhattan College
 
  4:30 PM -  5:45 PM   Breaking Barriers, Crossing Borders & Building Coalitions in the Global Struggle for the Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Cornell University
 
  5:45 PM -  7:30 PM Dinner on your own
 
  7:30 PM Topic to be announced
Hilda Solis or her Designate
United States Secretary of Labor
 
   
   

Sponsored by
Office for Mission & Ministry, Villanova University
Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice
Journal of Catholic Social Thought