Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize, Submissions Due January 3rd, 2015
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce this year’s Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize, established with the cooperation with.
LAWCHA
Title VII’s Legacy
The latest issue of Labor:Studies of Working Class History of the Americas has an excellent forum (available on the right side of this.
- by Erik Loomis
- October 15, 2014
LAWCHA
“Behind Every Worker is a Family,” by Wendy Z. Goldman
In Buenos Aires, I spoke to a crowded auditorium of 700 workers, students, and faculty. Workers came from the Lear plant, from the.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 10, 2014
LAWCHA
The Right’s Working-Class Philosopher
Original posted in Jacobin on September 2, 2014. Eric Hoffer was a conservative who only had the time to write because he was.
- by Peter Cole
- September 10, 2014
LAWCHA
Michael Sacco on Steve Early’s Save Our Unions
Labor law is outdated and rotten in the US, corporations have an inordinate amount of power, so it is rare that unions win.
- by Michael Sacco
- August 28, 2014
LAWCHA
Are Labor and Working-Class History Courses in Decline, or Healthier than We Imagined?
Are courses in labor and working-class history in higher education on the decline? If so, is this a particular problem, or part of.
- by James Barrett
- August 24, 2014
LAWCHA
On Ferguson, Missouri: History, Protest, and “Respectability”
It is difficult to write about the situation in the black working-class community of Ferguson, Missouri, which began last week with the police.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 17, 2014
LAWCHA
AFSCME, the United Negro College Fund, and Koch Money – Meanings for the Black Public Sphere
Lee A. Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), recently announced that his union is severing ties.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 4, 2014
LAWCHA
The Supreme Court’s War on Women, Workers, and the 99%
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued two 5-4 decisions. The first, Harris v. Quinn, ruled that home health care workers are partial state employees.
- by Erik Loomis
- July 2, 2014
LAWCHA
Made within/outside the EU: what’s the difference?
In a dormitory beside a railway station there are several hundred migrant workers getting ready for – or else just returning from –.
- by Rutvica Andrijasevic
- June 12, 2014