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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Action Alerts
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.
OpEd
“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.
Call for Proposals
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New Book Interviews
Reviving Southern Labor History: Call for Contributors for New Book on Southern Labor History
Since the mid-1970s only a handful of books on southern labor history have been published. As Alan Draper wrote nearly twenty years ago,
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LAWCHA Seeking LaborOnline Contributors: Anyone Can Contribute
LAWCHA invites students, activists, scholars, educators, and everyone between to contribute to the ongoing conversation at LaborOnline. We consider pieces of any length
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Deadline Extended: Social Justice for a Global Working Class: MLWCH Colloquium
The upcoming MLWCH conference at Purdue has extended its CFP deadline to March 20.
Call for Proposals
LRAN 2016 Call for Proposals: Due March 14
LAWCHA invites you to submit a proposal for our annual Labor Research Action Network (LRAN) conference, which will be held June 24th-25th in
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LAWCHA Election Results
The Elections Committee has reported the results of the annual election to the Executive Committee, and we are very pleased to announce the
OpEd
Daniel Katz, “The Key to Bernie Sanders’s Appeal Isn’t Socialism. It’s Yiddish Socialism.” Forward (February 14, 2016)
In New York and elsewhere, Yiddish Socialists in the early 20th century founded and invigorated fraternal societies, newspapers, schools, athletic leagues, summer camps,