Long Time LAWCHA Activist Undertakes Building a New Institution Devoted to Working Class History
A year and a half ago, I left Macalester College after a three decades-long career. I decided that it’s time to devote myself.
Labor History
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Teaching Blog
Launch of LAWCHA’s Teacher/Public Sector Initiative
Today we launch the teachers/public sector toolkit, a set of resources that we hope will contribute to dialog on teacher and public sector.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 9, 2014
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People
James Green: Labor Festival Talk, Upcoming Book, and PBS Series
James Green, a past president of LAWCHA, delivered the keynote address at this year’s Mother Jones Festival in Cork, Ireland, a four-day community-organized.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 12, 2014
Call for Proposals
LAWCHA
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 10, 2014
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Labor law is outdated and rotten in the US, corporations have an inordinate amount of power, so it is rare that unions win.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