Labour History Workshop, St. Catharines, Ontario
Sunday, May 25. The 2014 Labour History Workshop will be held in St. Catharines, Ontario, on Sunday, May 25, during this year’s Congress
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SLSA is accepting essay submissions for the Robert H. Zieger Prize
The Southern Labor Studies Association (SLSA) announces the Robert H. Zieger Prize for the best essay in Southern Labor Studies. This prize has
Call for Proposals
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Southern Labor Studies Association Conference Annual Conference
March 5-8, 2015. CFP Deadline: September 1, 2014. The Southern Labor Studies Association invites academics, activists, students, attorneys, public historians, archivists, and any
Labor History
Bill Barry Interviewed about May Day
Lucky Crosby, Chief Shop Steward, AFSCME Local 467 and Labor Historian Bill Barry discuss the history and current state of Baltimore’s workers movement.
Action Alerts
Freedom U Holds Sit-In at University of Georgia
Beginning at 12pm EST and extending into the evening, students of Freedom University are sitting in in front of the office of the
Activism
LRAN Website and Email List Redesign
Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce newly redesigned website and listserve for the Labor Research and Action Network, available at http://lranetwork.org. We
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OpEd
Peter Rachleff, “Telling – and considering – ‘Untold Stories'”
April and May 2014 mark the fifteenth year that the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, with the support of labor and
Opportunity
Call for Book Reviews and Review Essays: Culture, Labor and Class
Working USA: The Journal Of Labor And Society, a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal is calling for book reviews and review essays discussing texts relating
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ASALH Conference on Civil Rights in America, Memphis, TN
September 24-28, 2014, at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. CFP Deadline, May 31, 2014. This year’s theme involves the role of women
Labor History
Bill Williamson: Hobo, Wobbly, Communist, On-to-Ottawa Trekker, Spanish Civil War Veteran, and Photographer, by Kara Sievewright
Extensively researched by Kara, the story grows out of two letters Williamson wrote in the 1980s and two interviews with him recorded by