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White Trash, Hillbillies, and Middle-Class Stereotypes

During election years white people who do not have bachelor’s degrees (the increasingly common definition of “the working class”) become both a somewhat.

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It is About Time: LAWCHA’s Committee on Contingent Faculty

This blog introduces LAWCHA’s newest and most important initiative. Last year, with encouragement from past president Nancy MacLean, an ad hoc committee drafted.

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LAWCHA 2017 Conference (Seattle): CFP Deadline Extended to October 15

The Labor and Working Class History Association, an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators and activists, welcomes individual and session proposals for.

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Best Read for Labor Day 2016: Tamara Draut’s Sleeping Giant

Like me, are you bone weary of hearing non-stop news coverage of Donald Trump? Do you roll your eyes when the pundits “discover”.

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The Education Campaign: Addressing Inequality through Teaching and Learning?

Other than Hillary Clinton’s adoption of Bernie Sanders’s proposal to make college tuition free for most Americans, we haven’t heard much about education.

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Portrait of a “Marriage”: Radicals & the Democratic Party

Prof. James N. Gregory has performed a real service with his “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders” (re-posted.

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Why Labor Historians Should Remember Leslie Brown

Even if you did not know her personally, you should mourn Professor Leslie Brown, who passed away earlier this month. She was many.

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Chasing Tax Cheats to Create Jobs: Why Don’t We Do That?

I’m guessing that tax collectors have never been a popular group, but we need thousands more of them, probably about 50,000 more. Why?.

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Paul Robeson, Black Dockworkers, And Labor-Left Pan-Africanism

Paul Robeson was one of the greatest black internationalists of the twentieth century. A gifted actor and singer, he was also an unabashed.

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Greyhound Racing in Australia: The Demise of a Working-Class Pastime (and Why That’s a Good Thing)

The recent announcement that the New South Wales government in Australia was banning Greyhound racing starting in 2017 surprised many. They didn’t expect.

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