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Sex Equality by What Measure?

Many of North Carolina's HB2’s opponents have pinned their hopes on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the once-ambiguous federal.

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The Global Threat from the Right: Labor’s Trans-Atlantic Conversation

The timing couldn’t have been more apt: a trans-Atlantic conference on the rise of the right, just days after Donald Trump became the.

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Brazil’s Solidarity Economy

My first face-to-face introduction to the solidarity economy in Southern Brazil was a visit to a recycling cooperative. Through hard work, the 16-member.

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Organizing within the Academy: The Campaign to Organize Graduate Students Turns Twenty

April 16, 2016, was a day for celebration. It marked the twentieth anniversary of the union certification election that transformed a home-grown organizing.

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Participatory Budgeting: A School for Citizenship

Jockeying to get funds for a neighborhood playground or clinic is nothing new. But in the absence of an organized procedure, cities tend.

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Should Right to Work Laws be Legal?

If ever a law was mislabeled, it is the Right to Work legislation. This anti-union contagion has spread through state legislatures like an.

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Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf win 2016 David Montgomery Award

For their book, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie(University of Illinois Press, 2015), LAWCHA members.

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James Green Awarded LAWCHA’s Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History

We are proud to announce former LAWCHA President James Green as the recipient of this year’s Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and.

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Alice Kessler-Harris wins Sol Stetin Award for Labor History

We are proud to announce that former LAWCHA President Alice Kessler-Harris has been awarded the 2016 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History. Born.

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Is It Time for a Six-Hour Work Day?

A 2014 Gallup poll shows Americans work an average of 47 hours per week. But should the work week be 30 hours? And.

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