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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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LAWCHA Providing Funding for Regional Grad Student Labor Conferences
At our board meeting in Atlanta, LAWCWA voted to provide up to $250 to help support other regional graduate student-organized and run labor.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- June 5, 2014
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A Memorial Day Exercise by Mark Lause
A few years back, I got to visit the grave of an uncle buried overseas. He had been happily married to a wonderful.
- by Mark Lause
- May 26, 2014
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LAWCHA 2013 Newsletter
If you are a LAWCHA member, your hard copy of the 2013 Newsletter will arrive in the next few weeks! Until then, you.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 26, 2014
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The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University
This is the first entry of a series of blogs dedicated to discussing labor archives. Thanks to Conor Casey for organizing this series.
- by Patrizia Sione
- May 20, 2014
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John Montgomery Ward, a New York Giant: A Labor History
I doubt many my age can greet the end of school or the warm weather without thinking about baseball. When I was young,.
- by Mark Lause
- May 10, 2014