Labor historian Bob Korstad on “why I chose to be arrested”
On May 6, Bob Korstad joined civil rights activists, 2 former presidents of the Organization of American Historians and other concerned citizens to
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History of Capitalism Summer Camp, Cornell University
July 14-25. Join 25 other historians and get the skills you need to understand economic theory, interpret quantitative sources, make sense of corporate
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Workers’ Memorial Day Reflections
As I write this it’s Workers’ Memorial Day, an event that barely gets a blip on the media screens. But it brought to
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Expertise Needed: Inter-Union and Federation-Level Organizing: New and Forgotten Methods
The AFL-CIO has formed a committee of labor historians to prepare a document to help them think about the future of organized labor.
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Last Call for LRAN Travel Funding (Deadline: April 26)
Last call for LRAN conference travel funding! We are still accepting requests for travel funding for the LRAN conference. For all grad students,
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Labor Research Action Network Conference
June 16-18. One of the principal goals of the Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is to create a space for the generation
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AFL-CIO Labor Historians Meeting at the OAH, Thursday, April 11, 2013
Please see the following message from Dan Katz pertaining to a committee about new and forgotten strategies of unionization. All interested historians are
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LAWCHA Conference Program Advertisements (Deadline: May 1)
The Labor and Working Class Association 2013 Conference Program will provide advertisements for publishers, journals, magazines, and other organizations who wish to market
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Mainstream media thinks studying the history of capitalism is a good thing
Two recent stories in the bastions of mainstream media draw attention to the study of capitalism and Marx. That’s all to the good,