Colombian Trade Unionist Murdered, Others Face Immediate Risk
Oscar López Triviño was murdered on November 9 in the Colombian city of Bugalagrande a day after he and other members of his
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Lisha Arino, “Lakeshore Museum Center traveling exhibit to focus on Mexican migrant worker program”
The Lakeshore Museum will host a traveling exhibit that focuses on the largest Mexican guest-worker program in U.S. history. Visitors can learn about
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Peter Rachleff, “Struggle against racist sports nicknames gives labor movement opportunity to discover its own history – and find a path forward”
In early September the AFL-CIO held a dramatic convention in Los Angeles. With the labor movement’s segment of the U.S. workforce down to
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“The Nature of Work”: 36th Annual North American Labor History Conference
October 16-18, 2014, Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) The Program Committee of the NALHC, an international conference with global perspectives, invites proposals for
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Peter Cole, “An Irresistible Force”: Longshore unions and the fight for freedom and justice in Palestine
Before dawn one Sunday in June 2010, nearly 1,000 people converged on the Port of Oakland in northern California. Following a well-devised plan,
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Letter of Support for Mexican Intellectual Edur Velasco Arregui
Please see the following call to action passed along to us by Richard Roman and LAWCHA member Manny Ness.
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Graphic History Collective, “Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Canada, 1880-1900”
Dreaming of What Might Be is the first comic book to be published as part of the larger initiative known as The Graphic
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Open Access Journal Class, Race and Corporate Power Seeking Submissions
Class, Race and Corporate Power is an open-access, online academic journal examining the politics of corporate power. This includes an analysis of capital,