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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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
Labor History
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.
- by David Brundage
- May 9, 2016
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When Socialists Won Elections (and Where)
Bernie Sanders has come close. And in doing so he has demonstrated that in 2016 the label democratic socialist is no longer a.
- by James Gregory
- May 5, 2016
Global Affairs Articles
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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
Labor History
AFL-CIO Merger: In Commemoration of the AFL-CIO’s 60th Anniversary
Before 1955, the AFL (American Federation of Labor) and the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) were separate, competing organizations. The two organizations chose.
- by Jennifer Eidson
- March 2, 2016
Global Affairs Articles
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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
Call for Proposals
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New Book Interviews
Reviving Southern Labor History: Call for Contributors for New Book on Southern Labor History
Since the mid-1970s only a handful of books on southern labor history have been published. As Alan Draper wrote nearly twenty years ago,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 28, 2016
Labor History
The Archivist’s Nook: Introduction to American Catholic Archives
Before the 1960s, almost no dioceses had more than part-time archivists, only a few Catholic colleges and universities devoted much attention or resources.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 16, 2016
Events
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Join us at the OAH: Love & Solidarity, James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights
Join LAWCHA for a film showing (of Love & Solidarity) and discussion at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, 9am.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 7, 2016