Society of American Archivists Labor Archives Roundtable at the 2015 LAWCHA Conference
May 28-29, 2015. As part of the Society of American Archivists Labor Archives Roundtable’s ongoing efforts to coordinate with LAWCHA, two conference sessions.
Labor History
People
Suellen Hoy wins 2014 Harry E. Pratt Award
We are pleased to pass along that LAWCHA member Suellen Hoy has won 2014’s Harry E. Pratt Award for the best article in.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 29, 2015
Labor History
OpEd
Jim Gregory, “Seattle’s Left Coast Formula,” Dissent (Winter, 2015)
Contemporary Seattle is a city with a dual personality. On one hand, a dramatic building boom is underway. Towering cranes crowd the skyline.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 16, 2015
Labor History
Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike
Tired of reductions in pay and jobs, increased workloads, and harassment of United Automobile Workers organizers, on December 30, 1936 automotive workers in.
- by The Walter P. Reuther Library
- February 15, 2015
Labor History
Graphic History Collective Project #10 – Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love
We are excited to share the mini-comic version of Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love, a community based comic book project created by Toronto-based.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 4, 2015
Global Affairs Articles
International Conference
Labor History
Australia and U.S. Labor: Transnational Influences and Historical Comparisons
For three days in early January—summertime in the land “down under”—historians and other scholars interested in labor gathered on the campus of Australia’s.
- by Peter Cole
- January 30, 2015
Labor History
LAWCHA
Long Time LAWCHA Activist Undertakes Building a New Institution Devoted to Working Class History
A year and a half ago, I left Macalester College after a three decades-long career. I decided that it’s time to devote myself.
- by Peter Rachleff
- December 15, 2014
Labor History
Bill Barry, “Workers vs. Undocumented Immigrants: The Politics of Divide & Conquer”
Former labor organizer Bill Barry discusses the tenuous relationship between the working class and undocumented workers, and the forces that keep these groups.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 9, 2014
Labor History
LAWCHA
Teaching Blog
Launch of LAWCHA’s Teacher/Public Sector Initiative
Today we launch the teachers/public sector toolkit, a set of resources that we hope will contribute to dialog on teacher and public sector.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 9, 2014
Global Affairs Articles
Labor History
LaborOnline
The Days of Action: The Character of Class Struggle in 1990s Ontario
Illustrated by Orion Keresztesi, written by Doug Nesbitt and Sean Carleton, and augmented by an introduction by David Camfield, The Days of Action.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- November 15, 2014