Big Win for Victims of Racist Restrictive Covenants
On April 23, 2023, the Washington state legislature passed the Covenants Homeownership Act (CHA), pioneering legislation that will provide compensation to victims of
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Labor History
A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932
An election looms. An unpopular president wrestles with historic unemployment rates. Demonstrations erupt in hundreds of locations. The president deploys Army units to
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Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity
Duke University Press is allowing us to offer free access for three months to James Gregory’s provocative new essay “Remapping the American Left:
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Remembering and Mapping the Knights of Labor
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the Knights of Labor, the most important labor movement of the Gilded Age. It is worth thinking
Action Alerts
Barnard fires union activist
Last September, Georgette Fleischer, one of the leaders of a long fight to organize contingent faculty at Barnard College, wrote an article for
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Nancy MacLean on Democracy Now
Amy Goodman spoke with Duke University historian and former LAWCHA president Nancy MacLean, author of the new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep
In Memoriam
Judith Stein, 1940-2017
It is with a heavy heart that I forward the news that Judith Stein has passed away after a long struggle with cancer.
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
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It is About Time: LAWCHA’s Committee on Contingent Faculty
This blog introduces LAWCHA’s newest and most important initiative. Last year, with encouragement from past president Nancy MacLean, an ad hoc committee drafted
In Memoriam
James Green, 1944-2016
With great sadness we mark the passing of James Green, former president of LAWCHA, scholar, activist, and mentor to countless labor historians. He
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When Socialists Won Elections (and Where)
Bernie Sanders has come close. And in doing so he has demonstrated that in 2016 the label democratic socialist is no longer a