LAWCHA In Seattle: 2017 Conference Recap
The Scales of Struggle conference featured the largest program of any LAWCHA conference to date features nearly 100 panels, workshops, films, and performances,.
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Mass Incarceration and the Working Class – LAWCHA Conference 2017
At the 2017 LAWCHA Conference in Seattle, a world-class panel of experts discussed the affects of mass incarceration on the working class. Featured.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 5, 2017
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Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity
America rediscovered its working class during the 2016 election, and many Democrats and progressives now call for fresh policies to address the nation’s.
- by Lane Windham
- July 4, 2017
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Fear of Hygge and Working-Class Social Capital
One of the contenders for the Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year” in 2016 is the Danish word hygge (pronounced hoo-guh). As defined.
- by Jack Metzgar
- July 3, 2017
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Congratulations to our 2017 Award Winners
Congratulations to our 2017 prize and award winners, announced formally at the 2017 Annual LAWCHA Conference in Seattle, Washington. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- July 1, 2017
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Nancy MacLean on Democracy Now
Amy Goodman spoke with Duke University historian and former LAWCHA president Nancy MacLean, author of the new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep.
- by James Gregory
- July 1, 2017
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Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us
Like many of my friends and colleagues who study class and are worried about the increasing economic inequality of this country, I was.
- by Allison L. Hurst
- June 20, 2017
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After Paycheck Taxes
I am a public employee. And what is worse, I work at a university. Mine is a public university sucking the lifeblood out.
- by David Obringer
- June 6, 2017
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Will the British Working Class Stand Up and Fight Back?
I spent my teenage years in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Working-class people struggled in a grim environment. Three million people were unemployed, local services.
- by Sarah Attfield
- May 15, 2017
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Collection Spotlight: Collective Bargaining Agreements Online
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in Cornell University’s ILR School is pleased to announce the digitization of over 2800 collective.
- by Kheel Center
- May 9, 2017