The Elk River Spill — Capitalism at its “best”
On the morning of Thursday, January 9, 2014, 7500 gallons of a coal cleaning chemical known as Crude MCHM (principally composed of 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol).
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LAWCHA at the OAH Panel and Reception, “Immigration Activism IS Labor Activism: The Undocumented Economic Justice Movement in the Old Confederacy”
Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 24, 2014
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LAWCHA at the OAH, Atlanta 2014
LAWCHA has two main events at this year’s OAH. We encourage all LAWCHA members to attend the public Friday night activist plenary organized.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 24, 2014
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Celebrating MLK Day: Dream Defenders, Moral Mondays, and the Fight for 15
Another national observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is upon us. I know that I’m speaking to the choir here when I.
- by Clarence Lang
- January 20, 2014
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Former LAWCHA President Mike Honey publishes Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition
Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white slaveowners, John Handcox was born at one of the hardest times and places to.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 17, 2014
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Five Ideas for Digital Labor History
Over the last two decades, digital technologies have transformed practically every aspect of historians’ professional lives. Tobias HigbieTobias Higbie is a professor of.
- by Tobias Higbie
- January 9, 2014
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The Latest Strike Against Academic Freedom
I wrote an entry for LaborOnline in September concerning a faculty member at the University of Kansas. David Guth, an associate professor of.
- by Clarence Lang
- December 26, 2013
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Italian Hall Tragedy: 100 Years Later
Today, Christmas Eve, 2013, marks the 100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan, one of the most tragic events in.
- by Aaron Goings
- December 24, 2013
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Thinking of Calumet 1913
My husband keeps expressing a hankering to go up to Calumet, Michigan on Christmas eve to commemorate the 73 people, mostly children, who.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 21, 2013
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Gutman Prize Deadline Extension to January 10
Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 17, 2013