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”.
- by Lane Windham
- August 31, 2016
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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.
- by Sherry Linkon
- August 20, 2016
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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.
- by Mark Lause
- August 12, 2016
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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.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 12, 2016
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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?.
- by Jack Metzgar
- August 6, 2016
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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.
- by Peter Cole
- August 4, 2016
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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.
- by Sarah Attfield
- July 26, 2016
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Memories of Jim Green
When I moved to Boston in the fall of 1971, one of the first people I set out to meet was Jim Green,.
- by Jim O'Brien
- July 25, 2016
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Socialism Comes to Philadelphia
On Sunday afternoon, March 9, 1930, the city of Philadelphia witnessed what the Public Ledger called “one of the most amazing demonstrations of.
- by Sharon McConnell-Sidorick
- July 14, 2016