This is a podcast of the paper I gave at the Rhetoric Society of America 13th Biennial Conference in Seattle, WA on May 26, 2008.  My paper, “Holding Back the Membership: Breaking Cycles of Despair and Rhetorics of Power in a Contract Negotiations Year,” was part of a panel I was on with Ken Ehrensal, Seth Kahn, and Cheryl Wanko.  Our panel was titled, “Responsible to Whom, for What?: Complex Audiences at Cross-Purposes in Labor Organizing.”  Our panel was focused on the last round of contract negotiations for our union, APSCUF.

If you would like to download full paper with my Works Cited page and cut selections, you can do that here –> Holding Back the Membership (doc)

 Holding Back the Membership, RSA 2008 [26:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (74)