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Social Justice for a Global Working Class: the Midwest Labor and Working Class History’s 2016 Annual Conference

On June 10th students, activists, and scholars met at Purdue University for the 2016 annual Midwest Labor and Working Class History (MLWCH) conference..

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Power-Hungry Counter-Revolutionaries or Bourgeois Radicals?

Readers of the LAWCHA blog will be interested in a few of the different leftist interpretations of the meaning of American independence and.

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Historic Levels of Inequality

The pundits always seem to miss the politics of capitalism in their effort to explain inequality. It looks like a new book by.

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The Coup in Brazil: What It Means for Workers

On May 11, more than two thirds of senators in Brazil voted to advance impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’.

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Labor Archives and Research Center 30th Anniversary Celebration

Flyaway Productions, a Bay Area dance company, was commissioned by the Labor Archives and Research Center to create an aerial site-specific performance, choreographed.

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Radical Leisure

Connections, both real and hoped for, between the labor movement and environmentalists have been news for at least fifteen years now. The possibility.

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Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?

Academe is a privileged place.  It was designed to serve and continues to be dominated by people from educated, well-off backgrounds.  Its hierarchical.

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Remembering the Last Great Strike this Memorial Day

On the afternoon of Memorial Day, 1937, at least 1,500 striking steel workers and their supporters marched across a sun-drenched field in the.

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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,.

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The Easter Rising 100 years on: How the Irish revolution fired up American politics

On July 27, 1919, Marcus Garvey, the African-American nationalist then nearing the height of his influence, rose to address a crowd of almost.

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