With disputes over the rights of public worker unions roiling in Wisconsin and other states, Duke historian Nancy MacLean will answer questions about conflicts between the American labor and conservative movements during a live "Office Hours" webcast interview beginning at noon March 4 on the Duke University Ustream channel.
Anyone can submit a question for MacLean. To do that, send an email before or during the webcast to live@duke.edu, tweet with the tag #dukelive or post to the Duke University Facebook page.
MacLean spoke in support of public employee unions and collective bargaining during a recent interview.
"What happens in Wisconsin is really going to decide whether we will be a society in which most of us can enjoy some security in order to pursue opportunity in which there's a society of fairness and transparency and openness, or whether we're going to become a society in which corporations are really writing the rules for the rest of us -- it's about that simple," she said on the public radio show "Radio Times."
MacLean is a professor of history who studies modern American social movements. Her most recent books are "The American Women's Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents" and "Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present."
