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The Million Man March at Twenty: Revisiting a Spectacle of “Atonement,” Class Stewardship, and Patriarchy

The Million Man March commemorates its twentieth-year anniversary this month, which historians argue had problematic racial, class, and gender politics. Clarence Lang explores.

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Fighting Inequality through Teaching, Scholarship and Activism: A Roundtable Discussion on the Career of Jim Barrett

For five-days “Fighting Inequality” conference (May 2015) participants critically considered ways, then and now, that working-class people experience and struggle against class inequality..

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BC Labor Heritage Centre Call for Articles and Papers: Deadline October 10

The B.C. Labour Heritage Centre is an independent not-for-profit historical society with charity status, working to preserve and expand the knowledge of the.

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Working History: Black Women Convict Laborers in the New South

In this episode of the SLSA’s Working History podcast, Professor Talitha LeFlouria, a current fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the.

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Solidarity Forever! When Labor Had Its Day, And Why Its Time Has Come Again

For the last century, Labor Day events have served primarily as occasions for politicians to make their pitches. But at the height of.

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(Updated) Patrick S. O’Donnell, The World of Work and Labor Law: A Bibliography

Patrick S. O’Donnell has updated his monumental bibliography on the labor movement to account for the year 2015. “This bibliography,” writes the author,.

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David Montgomery Award Submissions Open: October 1, 2015 Deadline

The David Montgomery Award is given annually by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best.

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Preserving & Donating Union Records

Many labor organizations already have good records management systems but want to know which types of records to donate to the LAW, which.

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The Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize: Deadline, September 1, 2015

The New York Labor History Association is pleased to announce this Call for Entries for the First Annual Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism.

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Empire of Cotton Still Based on Violence

At the recent LAWCHA conference here in Washington, D.C., I was among those applauding heartily when Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Sven.

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