On July 27, 1898 marching bands led thousands of people to the highest point in downtown St Paul, Minnesota. Columns of veterans, stonecutters
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
LAWCHA member Nathan Jun is interested in acquiring a new marker for the grave of our departed comrade Harry Kelly (1871-1953) at Forest
Session at the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 10 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. As the AFL-CIO and its affiliates
I worked in the food service for a total of 15 years, in every possible job classification. During that time, I worked at
Labor and New Deal Art: the Commemoration of the Little Steel Strike of 1937 is a wonderful resource for labor historians and teachers,
LAWCHA mourns the loss of one of its founding members, Bob Zieger. Bob was one of LAWCHA’s first ever board members and has
The Beatles first visited Detroit just before Labor Day in 1964, and they gushed with admiration for the Motown sound. Detroit hummed with
The New York Times recently characterized the economic recovery that officially began in 2009 as a “golden era for corporate profits.” Indeed, corporate
A quarter of a million people rallied “For Jobs and Freedom” at the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, and