Event Details:

Speaker: Samantha Smith, MSU Department of History

 

For many years, dancers and showgirls had union contracts with the American Guild of Variety of Artists (AGVA). Then in 1980, a full cast of dancers and performers with the "Casino de Paris" fought for unionized representation at the Dunes Hotel and Casino. What happened to the AGVA in Vegas, and what does the organization of dancers and showgirls tell us about labor issues in the postwar period?
 

All presentations take place in the Green Room, 4th floor, MSU Library from 12:00pm - 1:15pm ET, and are available as an online webinar at https://msu.zoom.us/j/97496813137. The password is odwodl.

Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives

"Our Daily Work / Our Daily Lives" is a joint project that focuses on the artistic traditions of workers and on workplaces as contexts for the expression of workers culture. The richness and diversity of workers' experiences and workers culture is explored and presented through an ongoing series of exhibits, lectures, and presentations; writing and research projects; reunions; and demonstrations and discussions.

The program was established in 1992 and is coordinated by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program at the MSU Museum and the Labor Education Program in the College of Social Science's School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.