Recommendations made by LAWCHA’s contingent faculty committee
In March of 2015, LAWCHA’s recently formed ad hoc committee on contingent faculty issued its first report and set of recommendations. This was.
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Welcome to the Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Welcome to LAWCHA’s blog on contingent faculty and contingent labor! This blog offers an opportunity to share updates, scholarship, opinions, questions, links, and.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- August 31, 2016
Global Affairs Articles
Some Silver Linings for the Working Class in British Politics?
On the face of it, there is little to make progressives cheerful about in British politics at the moment. In the wake of.
- by Tim Strangleman
- August 28, 2016
Activism
Global Affairs Articles
Life after the Massacre: A View from Oaxaca
“I thought that it was raining,” education students wrote the day after police killed as many as 12 and injured dozens at protests.
- by Eric Larson
- July 7, 2016
Labor History
Teaching Blog
Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed
For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 29, 2016
Global Affairs
Canoas: A Government of, by and for the People
This is the first article in a series on Canoas, Brazil and its experiment with radical democracy. Here in the states, we know.
- by Ruth Needleman
- April 25, 2016
Global Affairs Articles
Labor History
French Workers Fight to Maintain 35-Hour Work Week
French workers are fighting to maintain their 35 hour work week. Adopted in February of 2000, as part of the platform of France’s.
- by David Obringer
- March 23, 2016
Activism
Global Affairs Articles
Garment Workers are Speaking Out – Will Nike Listen?
Today marks the first day of our countrywide worker speak-out featuring Noi Supalai, a former union President and Nike worker from Thailand. While.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- March 17, 2016
Global Affairs Articles
Labor History
LAWCHA
LAWCHA Joins the Global Labour History Network
The Global Labour History Network (GLHN) is an interdisciplinary network of historians and other social scientists, founded in Barcelona on June 16, 2015..
- by Rosemary Feurer
- March 2, 2016
Global Affairs Articles
Teaching Blog
Oaxaca Teachers Still Fighting Corporate Education Reforms
Ten years ago, one of the most radical unions in the hemisphere, the Sección XXII of Mexico’s National Education Workers’ Union (SNTE), led.
- by Eric Larson
- February 26, 2016