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MEDIA ADVISORY: Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: "Forward and Backward: Women, Globalization and the New Class Structure"

ATTENTION: ASSIGNMENT DESKS

10/16/00
Contact: Pat McBroom
(510) 643-7944
pmb@pa.urel.berkeley.edu



WHAT: The annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: "Forward and Backward: Women, Globalization and the New Class Structure," presented this year by University of California, Berkeley, sociologist Arlie Hochschild, known for her research on working families, and author Barbara Ehrenreich.  
WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m.  
WHERE: Pauley Ballroom in UC Berkeley's Student Union  
WHO: Hochschild, author of "The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work," was recently a Fulbright Scholar in Kerala, India, where she studied the effects of globalization on women. She is co-editing a book on the topic with Ehrenreich. Hochschild is co-director of UC Berkeley's Center for Working Families.  
BACKGROUND: The lecture is being co-sponsored this year by the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Graduate Minority Student Project, UC Berkeley's School of Journalism and the UC Berkeley library.