Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Who cares for those who care?”
In 2009, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, in Long Island Care at Home vs. Evelyn Coke upheld the
OpEd
Labor History
Heather Thompson, “How Prisons Have Changed America’s Electoral Politics,” The Atlantic
What has it really cost the United States to build the world’s most massive prison system? To answer this question, some point to
Labor History
People
Inaugural David Montgomery Award (Deadline: November 1)
The David Montgomery Award will be given annually beginning in 2014 by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
OpEd
Brian Greenberg, “Labor unions to focus on cementing partnerships”
In a June 2, 1897, letter to the New York Journal, Mark Twain responded to newspaper accounts that he either was seriously ill
OpEd
Sarah Rose and Joshua Salzmann, “Our nation of bionic workers”
As Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez prepares to appeal his 211-game suspension, seeking the $86 million remaining on his contract, it would be
Issues of Labor
Labor 10.3 (Fall, 2013)
In This Issue The Common Verse Robin Clarke, “Untitled (The Mine Collapsed Under)“ LAWCHA Watch Rosemary Feurer, “LAWCHA and the Lesson Plan“ Contemporary
OpEd
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Revaluing the Labor of Care”
They were to be neither nurses nor maids, but front-line careworkers whose efforts allowed frail elderly and disabled people to remain at home.
Call for Proposals
Food and Work (Deadline: October 1)
Susan Levine and Steve Striffler send a call for papers for a special issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
Labor History
Who Built Our Capitol? The Lives and Work of the Men and Women Who Built the Minnesota State Capitol Building
On July 27, 1898 marching bands led thousands of people to the highest point in downtown St Paul, Minnesota. Columns of veterans, stonecutters
Call for Proposals
Labor and Empire Small Conference
The journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas invites paper submissions for its upcoming conference–tentatively slotted for November 13-15, 2014 in