Thursday

5:00        Registration at Union South, Room 109

9:00        Perspectives on a Living Wage

9:00        #1: Perspectives and Emerging Issues: Corporate Social Responsibility for Labor Conditions in Developing                              Economies, Room 109

10:00       #2: Living Wage—Defining and Measuring Consumption, Room 260, continued

                #5: Economic Effects of a Living Wage, Room 246, continued

RICHARD APPELBAUM. Professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara and director of the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research. Appelbaum is also co-director for the Center for Global Studies, and founding co-editor of Competition and Change: The Journal of Global Business and Political Economy. Professor Appelbaum is currently engaged in a multidisciplinary study of the apparel industry in Los Angeles and the Asian-Pacific Rim. He is a founding member of the Los Angeles Jewish Commission on Sweatshops, and the author of its recent report (www.isber.ucsb.edu). He is a faculty representative on the University of California Advisory Committee on Trademark Licensing.

BRADFORD BARHAM. Associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and co-director of the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Barham’s research focuses on the industrial organization of agricultural and natural resource industries in Latin America and Wisconsin and their implications for income distribution, efficiency, and environmental sustainability.

MEDEA BENJAMIN. Co-founder of Global Exchange, an organization that connects citizens around the world in their efforts to enact social change. Trained in nutrition and economics, Benjamin has worked in Latin America, Africa, and Europe. Her most recent area of interest is in Indonesia and Vietnam, where she scrutinizes labor conditions and human rights. She speaks and writes widely in the popular media on the subject of sweatshops.

IAN COXHEAD. Associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Coxhead’s field of specialization is development economics and his research addresses growth, development, trade, and economic policy in the developing nations of Southeast Asia, especially Thailand and the Philippines.

JILL ESBENSHADE. Student at UC-Berkeley. As recipient of a grant from the UC-Berkeley Human Rights Center in 1998, Esbenshade worked with the San Francisco-based Sweatshop Watch, a California coalition working to eliminate exploitation of apparel industry workers. She was also instrumental in the planning of a three-day conference at Berkeley on the subject of a living wage.

RICHARD FREEMAN. Ascherman Chair of Economics at Harvard University. Freeman serves currently as co-chair of the Harvard University Trade Union Program and is the director for the Labor Studies Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also co-directs the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and is a visiting professor there. He has written or edited 23 books and has published more than 250 articles.

PAUL GLEWWE. Economist at the World Bank and assistant professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. Glewwe’s research interests are in poverty, inequality, education and child nutrition in developing countries. He has worked in China, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam.

STEPHEN GOLUB. Professor of economics at Swarthmore College. Golub has worked as a consultant at the IMF, World Bank, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, U.S. Federal Reserve System, and the U.S. Treasury. His recent research focuses on international trade between developed and developing countries and the effects of labor costs on international trade. Last year he spent in Senegal; currently he is working with the South African government to analyze their international competitiveness.

LAURA HARTMAN. Professor of business ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hartman’s work has involved integrating the teaching of ethics into Business School curricula, a move supported by the American Association of Colleges and Schools of Business. Trained in social psychology and law, she now also serves as an officer in the Society for Business Ethics, an association of academic ethicists and business practitioners.

SCOTT LITTLEHALE. International political economy analyst at UNITE, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees in New York. A Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Littlehale has worked for the AFL-CIO’s Department of Public Policy, as well as at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights nongovernmental organization. His Ph.D. dissertation is on the political economy of organized labor responses to North American economic integration.

ROBERT POLLIN. Professor of economics and founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Pollin specializes in macroeconomics, money and finance, and political economy. In addition to publishing on these topics, he has worked with the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, the United Nations Development Program, and the federal Competitiveness Policy Council. Recently he has served as consultant to various U.S. cities on living wage proposals.

RUTH ROSENBAUM. Founder and executive director of A Center for Reflection, Education and Action Inc., Hartford, Connecticut. Sister Rosenbaum is a social economist whose work focuses on faith-based economic and social justice. Creator of the Purchasing Power Index (a measure that brings together wages, prices, and inflation), she has focused on northern Mexico, Haiti, and Indonesia, as well as a wide area in her home area of Hartford, Connecticut. She is part of the Independent Monitoring Working Group working with the GAP to set up independent monitoring at their factories in Central America.

JONATHAN D. ROSENBLUM. Attorney, Haus, Resnick and Roman, Madison, Wisconsin. Since 1996, Rosenblum has represented the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund, a human rights organization specializing in international labor advocacy, research, and litigation. He has assisted ILRF in a number of independent monitoring capacity-building projects, including an ongoing pilot factory monitoring project with human rights organizations in Guatemala. He has served as an adviser to Duke University students and administration regarding codes of conduct for licensed products. He will teach a graduate course for the UW-Madison School of Business in the spring semester on recent developments in international labor standards and codes of conduct regarding sweatshops.

RICHARD ROTHSTEIN. Research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, Whittier, California. Rothstein is a contributing editor to The American Prospect and an adjunct professor of public policy at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is also a founding member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He writes a bi-weekly column on education policy in The New York Times.

DAVID M. SCHILLING. Director of the Global Corporate Accountability Programs, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, New York. An ordained United Methodist minister, Schilling is a member of the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (Mexico), the White House Apparel Industry Partnership, and the Independent Monitoring Working Group, which supports independent monitors at Gap’s El Salvador supplier, Mandarin International. He has published numerous articles urging corporate responsibility and has led delegations to the U.S.-Mexico border, and to Indonesia, Vietnam, and China.

GAY SEIDMAN. Associate professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Seidman teaches courses in the sociology of economic change, sociology of gender, class analysis, social movements, political sociology, and demography. Her research interests center on labor movements in developing countries, gender ideologies, racial stratification, and economic restructuring.

LEE TAVIS. C.R. Smith Professor of Business Administration and director of the Program on Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns, University of Notre Dame. The recent winner of the Reinhold Niebuhr Award for work in social justice, Tavis has worked extensively in economic development programs in Mexico, France, South Africa, and the United States. He has also published extensively on the issue of developmental responsibility of multinational corporations.

THOMAS WHEATLEY. Program associate, National Labor Committee, New York. A former graduate student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wheatley has worked with United Students Against Sweatshops over the past year and was active at UW-Madison in the Madison Anti-Sweatshop Coalition and as a graduate student representative to the Associated Students of Madison, UW-Madison’s student government. He is currently working to coordinate the Holiday Season of Conscience and the People’s Right to Know Campaign with the National Labor Committee.

TODD DAVID WHITMORE. Associate professor of social ethics, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame. Whitmore is also director of the Program in Catholic Social Tradition at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of research and teaching are in Catholic social teaching, the use of force in international affairs, and women and violence. He has published numerous articles on the relationship between and among the church, government, and the economy.

JOHN F. WITTE. Director of the Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs and professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As director of the La Follette Institute, Witte directs a variety of activities, including outreach functions such as the Living Wage Symposium. His own areas of scholarly interest are budget and tax policy and education policy. His book on the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, an analysis of the first voucher program in the United States, has just been published by Princeton University Press.

ERIK OLIN WRIGHT. Professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wright has a distinguished career studying political and economic sociology, class analysis, historical change, and gender and society. His research interests include comparative analyses of class structure, class biography, and class consciousness, Marxism and feminism, foundations of radical social and political theory, and theory of the state. His most recent book is Class Counts (Cambridge University Press).