(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
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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
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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
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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
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Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf win 2016 David Montgomery Award
For their book, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie(University of Illinois Press, 2015), LAWCHA members
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James Green Awarded LAWCHA’s Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History
We are proud to announce former LAWCHA President James Green as the recipient of this year’s Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and
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Alice Kessler-Harris wins Sol Stetin Award for Labor History
We are proud to announce that former LAWCHA President Alice Kessler-Harris has been awarded the 2016 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History. Born
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Boycott Driscoll’s Outreach on Watsonville’s Main Street
Watsonville community members support the boycott against Driscoll’s, the world famous berry company headquartered in their town. Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of
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“In Minnesota, public-sector workers building power from the inside out.” The Union Advocate (February 19, 2016)
They may no longer be on the brink of a Supreme Court-imposed Right-to-Work rule, but Minnesota’s public-sector union members aren’t celebrating. They’re organizing.
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LAWCHA Joins the Global Labour History Network
The Global Labour History Network (GLHN) is an interdisciplinary network of historians and other social scientists, founded in Barcelona on June 16, 2015.