Bread and Roses Strike Centennial Anniversary Conference (April 27-28, 2012)
When 30,000 workers walked out of Lawrence’s textile mills in the dead of a New England winter in January 1912, they launched an
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LAWCHA Member Lisa Phillips on C-SPAN’s The Contenders Series, Eugene V. Debs
LAWCHA member Lisa Phillips recently appeared on C-SPAN’s historical series, The Contenders, documenting presidential contenders that ran and lost, but nevertheless changed the
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CFP: North American Labor History Conference — Insurgency and Resistance (Deadline: March 23, 2012)
The 34th Annual North American Labor History Conference October 18-20, 2012 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan The Program Committee of the North American
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“Occupy” Protests
In September, 2011 a small group of protesters gathered on Wall Street to protest growing inequality in the United States. It has since
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CFP: How Class Works, SUNY (Deadline: December 12, 2011)
How Class Works, 2010 Call for Presentations A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012 The Center for Study of Working Class
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CFP “Bread, Yes, But Roses Too”: Government, Public Sector Unions, and Common Wealth – Pacific Northwest Labor History Association (Deadline: January 13, 2012)
Call for Papers, Workshops and Presentations for the 2012 Conference, to be held in Tacoma, Washington May 18 – 20.
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SLSA at the SHA, Baltimore, Maryland
The Southern Labor Studies Association will be at the annual Southern Historical Association in Baltimore, Maryland, this year. Below is a detailed description
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Freedom U: Education for the Undocumented
This past year, the university system in the state of Georgia adopted a policy that effectively bars undocumented immigrants from entering into the
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Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium Report
The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History colloquium (MLWCH) was held at the University of Iowa on April 15th and 16th, 2011, and it
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Audio: LAWCHA Honors Staughton Lynd
Staughton Lynd has been a bridge between the worlds of labor activism and labor history. Like E.P. Thompson and David Montgomery his scholarship