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International Students and Neoliberalism in Canada

Over the past year and a half, Canada has significantly changed its international student policy in an effort to reduce the number of.

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LaborOnline Teaching Blog

New Teaching Labor’s Story: Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement, 1969

This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.

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LaborOnline Teaching Blog

New Teaching Labor’s Story Unit: The Soup Song from the 1930s

“The Soup Song" uses humor and sarcasm to convey workers’ experiences and attitudes during the Great Depression.  As a widely popular participatory song, it.

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LaborOnline Teaching Blog

2 New Teaching Labor’s Story Units: Women’s Rights are Labor Rights

What do labor history and movements for women’s rights have in common?    Check out the new additions to the Teaching Labor’s Story.

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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

Contingent Magazine: History Is For Everyone

As an editor for Contingent Magazine, I love receiving a great pitch and thinking, “I want this.” Or when the editorial team—Erin Bartram,.

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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

Learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty

The LAWCHA Contingent Faculty Committee recommends these resources to learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty: Claire Goldstene

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Teaching Blog

Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —

Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories!  Check them out — The TLS repository now offers more ways to examine how work changed in the early-.

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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

Budget Activism: A Strategy To Address Contingency—and Tenure

For decades, austerity and financialization have impacted labor on public and private campuses.  When administrators and boards structure budgets to enforce top-down fiscal “discipline,”.

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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

A New Deal For Higher Education–Campaign Kickoff February 10

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-standing crisis in higher education. Declining state support, the increased use of contingent appointments, the loss of.

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Labor History Teaching Blog

Margaret Chanler Aldrich, “The Week Before Christmas,” December 20, 1911: Teaching Labor’s Story

Margaret Chanler Aldrich and the Teaching Committee have completed another section of Teaching Labor’s Story, featuring a poem first published in the New.

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