- Membership Directory
Updated
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Members, please ensure your contact details are correct on the recently updated membership directory. If you would like to update your entry or add your contact details to the directory please email Abby Goldman, LAWCHA Assistant at lawcha@duke.edu
- Herbert G. Gutman Prize
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The new Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize will recognize an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in labor and working-class history defended during the 2006-2007 academic year. The author of the winning dissertation will receive a contract for publication in the University of Illinois Press\' "Working Class in American History" series. The deadline for submissions will be November 30, 2007. Apply today! - Laurie B. Green Wins
2008 Philip Taft Labor History Prize!
The 2008 Taft Prize committee, in collaboration with the Labor and Working Class History Association, is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2008 Taft Award in Labor and Working-Class History is Laurie B. Green, for her deeply researched and wide-ranging book, Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle, published by the University of North Carolina Press. Green's book is a highly original contribution to the labor historiography of race, gender, and class in an important southern city during a crucial period for civil rights movement mobilization at the grassroots. Especially significant is Green's examination of the occupational structure and organization of labor in Memphis over three decades, assessing the composition, orientation, and outlook of the Memphis working class as a whole. By showing how the slogan "I am a Man" had great meaning for women, too, Green changes how we think about gender relations in the civil rights movement, in the labor movement, and among working-class women and men. The prize was awarded at the LAWCHA conference in Vancouver on June 6, 2008.
The Taft Prize comes with a cash award of $1,500. It is named in honor of Professor Philip Taft, an eminent labor historian and economist, who made outstanding contributions to the field of labor and working-class history during his lengthy career. The prize competition is administered by the ILR School at Cornell University and has been held annually since 1978. The members of the 2008 Prize committee were: Jefferson Cowie, Ileen DeVault (chair), Nancy Gabin, Stephen Pitti, and Joe Trotter.Visit www.ilr.cornell.edu/taftaward for more information.
- Call for Papers
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- Call for nominations
The Nominating Committee is seeking suggestions for people eager to serve on the board and would welcome nominations or self-nominations. All nominations should be accompanied by a paragraph or so providing biographical background and a statement about why the individual would be a good candidate. Please send nominations to Alice Kessler-Harris at akh571@columbia.edu.