LAWCHA at the OAH, Atlanta 2014
LAWCHA has two main events at this year’s OAH. We encourage all LAWCHA members to attend the public Friday night activist plenary organized
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OpEd
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Are Home Health Care Workers About to Get Screwed by the Supreme Court?”
Harris v. Quinn could take away their collective bargaining rights. That would be a loss for not only these workers, but our nation’s
Events (Old)
Work: The Politics of Laboring in American History, Graduate Student Conference (Michigan)
May 9-10, 2014. This conference will consider the myriad forms of work throughout American history, in order to engage scholarship in a wide
Activism
Labor History
Donations Needed to Restore the Mother Jones Monument
I often hear from trade unionists who stop at Mother Jones’ gravesite and monument in Mount Olive, Ill., (just off Highway 55, about
LAWCHA
People
Former LAWCHA President Mike Honey publishes Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition
Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white slaveowners, John Handcox was born at one of the hardest times and places to
OpEd
Peter Rachleff, “The Mall of America, free speech, and the labor movement”
From early childhood to old age, a “rights discourse” dominates Americans’ sense of the world and our place in it. Governments around the
Labor History
People
Eva Swidler, “Academic Freedom From Below: Toward an Adjunct Centered Struggle”
Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among
Call for Proposals
MLWCH CFP, “Resistance and Remembrance,” Final Extension: January 3, 2014
2014 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History (MLWCH) Colloquium. “Resistance and Remembrance: Collective Identities and the Uses of History.” University of Illinois at Chicago,
Events (Old)
LAWCHA at the AHA: Dinner with Karen Nussbaum
LAWCHA dinner with Karen Nussbaum, Executive Director of Working America, to be held Friday, January 3rd at 7 p.m. at the Café Dupont
Labor History
Inequality.is Makes Plain What Inequality Is
Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among