Labor 13.1 (February, 2016)
In This Issue The Common Verse Brooke Boulton, “Claiming Dependents“ LAWCHA Watch John W. McKerley and Jennifer Sherer, “The Iowa Labor History Oral
Issues of Labor
Labor History
Labor Archives and Research Center 30th Anniversary Celebration
Flyaway Productions, a Bay Area dance company, was commissioned by the Labor Archives and Research Center to create an aerial site-specific performance, choreographed
Events
LRAN Conference Registration Open
Register now for the 2016 Labor Research and Action Network national conference, which will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th
Labor History
Teaching Blog
Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed
For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,
Call for Proposals
Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations CFP: September 30 Deadline
The National Center for the Study Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions forwards us their call for papers for the March
OpEd
William P. Jones, “Ray Cross’ misunderstanding of history undercuts his position,” The Journal Sentinel (May 11, 2016)
In a recently publicized private memo, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross compared tenured faculty “who are no longer needed in a
Call for Proposals
Events
(New Deadline: May 20) Workers and Global Cities: Detroit and Beyond, 2016 NALHC CFP
CFP Deadline: May 20, 2016. The 38th annual North American Labor History Conference will explore the connections between labor and urban history, workers
Activism
OpEd
Gregory N. Heires, “The Union Advantage for Contingent Faculty.” Portside (April 28, 2016)
A new report says faculty and graduate students at 70 colleges have voted to unionize in the past three years. There are close
OpEd
Lane Windham, “Let Penn State grad students decide if they want to form a union: The administration and faculty members should stay neutral.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 26, 2016)
A directive on how to fight graduate employees’ unionization efforts was the last thing I expected Penn State University’s Graduate School to plop
Call for Proposals
Southern Cultures Appalachia Special Issue
Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists