Join us at the OAH: Love & Solidarity, James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights
Join LAWCHA for a film showing (of Love & Solidarity) and discussion at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, 9am.
Events
Labor History
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Labor History
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Preview of “Love & Solidarity”
Through interviews and historical documents, acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award-winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Rev. James Lawson’s discourse.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 20, 2016
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LAWCHA 2015 Newsletter, Now Out
The LAWCHA 2015 newsletter should have arrived in your mailboxes, LAWCHA members. For those of you who are too eager to read it,.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 17, 2016
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“We’ll just live within our means then!”: A Reaction to UW-Madison Graduate School Administration’s Proposal to “Restructure” Graduate Employee Pay
After briefly skimming over the potential effects of the proposed restructuring of pay for graduate assistants, I found myself jadedly stunned by the.
- by Jillian Jacklin
- December 7, 2015
Call for Proposals
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LAWCHA Co-Sponsorship for the ASA
If you would like to have LAWCHA co-sponsorship for a session at the American Studies Association, please send the information to our program.
- by Ryan Poe
- December 3, 2015
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Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize – submissions due January 3, 2016
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize, established with the cooperation with.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 8, 2015
LAWCHA
Mapping the IWW
The IWW History Project is now live. Based at the University of Washington, the online project reveals in new ways the rich history.
- by James Gregory
- November 7, 2015
Labor History
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David Montgomery Award Submissions Open: October 1, 2015 Deadline
The David Montgomery Award is given annually by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 27, 2015
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All Work and No Play: Players Associations and the State of American Labor
On May 25, 2015, weather conditions forced the cancelation of a flight from Atlanta to Boston. One of the flight’s intended passengers was.
- by Jonathan Cohen
- June 29, 2015
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The More Things Stay the Same: Lessons from 1934
It has been 81 years since the workers of the Toledo Electric Auto-Lite Company went on strike. A modest but extremely profitable auto.
- by Brad Sommer
- June 17, 2015