WCSA Awards Nominations (Deadline: January 15, 2016)
The Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) invites nominations (including selfnominations) for awards covering the year of 2015. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
Labor History
Working History Podcast: Religion’s Role in Organizing the South
SLSA’s latest Working History podcast, “Religion’s Role in Organizing the South,“ is available for listening on iTunes and SoundCloud. In the episode, Professor.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 7, 2015
Articles
Labor History
LaborOnline
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.
- by Clarence Lang
- October 16, 2015
Labor History
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..
- by Randi Storch
- September 25, 2015
Call for Proposals
Labor History
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 24, 2015
Labor History
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 16, 2015
Labor History
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.
- by James Green
- September 10, 2015
Labor History
Teaching Blog
(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,.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 8, 2015
Labor History
LAWCHA
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 27, 2015
Labor History
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 20, 2015