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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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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..

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LAWCHA Seeking LaborOnline Contributors: Anyone Can Contribute

LAWCHA invites students, activists, scholars, educators, and everyone between to contribute to the ongoing conversation at LaborOnline. We consider pieces of any length.

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LAWCHA Election Results

The Elections Committee has reported the results of the annual election to the Executive Committee, and we are very pleased to announce the.

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Eyes off the Prize: Liberals in the Postwar Era

Thomas Edsall’s recent New York Times op-ed on the failure of Democrats to engage as effectively as Republicans in state-level politics parenthetically surfaces.

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