Peter Cole, “Behind the Longshoremen’s Strike Threat,” The Progressive, December 29
“Just days before year’s end, a growing chorus of retailers, manufacturers, and conservative politicians called on President Obama to invoke a notorious anti-union.
LAWCHA
A Dialogue on History of Capitalism vs. Labor History
Jefferson Cowie (JC): Academic disciplines and their subfields are always in some kind of “crisis,” it seems, but for labor history that crisis.
- by Jefferson Cowie
- December 16, 2012
LAWCHA
OpEd
LAWCHA Member Activity in Recent Right to Work Conflicts
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 14, 2012
LAWCHA
Gompers Redux? or, Does Labor Need the State to Meddle?
I am finding it hard these days to get in the holiday spirit. In the wake of Michigan’s Republican and corporate assault on.
- by Randi Storch
- December 14, 2012
LAWCHA
Report on Lansing: anti-RTW Protest 12-11-12
On December 11 around 13,000 trade unionists and their allies gathered outside the capitol building in Lansing, Michigan to protest anti-union “right-to-work” legislation..
- by Tom Alter
- December 13, 2012
LAWCHA
Democracy on the Defensive in Michigan
I started my research on right-to-work laws almost ten years ago, when these decades-old statutes seemed a dead issue with no millennial saliency.
- by Elizabeth Shermer
- December 12, 2012
LAWCHA
Gutman Prize Extended Deadline: January 31st, 2013
We are pleased to announce a deadline extension for the Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation. The new deadline for submissions is.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 12, 2012
Global Affairs Articles
LAWCHA
Visualizing the 2012 LAWCHA Membership
Ever wondered where LAWCHA members were located? Thanks to BatchGeo and Google Maps, we can now visualize our membership on a map. Rosemary.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 11, 2012
LAWCHA
Right to Work a Man to Death
In 1958, an Indianapolis woman named Patricia Bolen wrote a letter to the Indianapolis Star about how Indiana’s right-to-work law affected her husband:.
- by Erik Loomis
- December 8, 2012
LAWCHA
The 47 Percent, Reconsidered
No, this isn’t another commentary on Mitt Romney’s denunciations of the so-called “47 percent” of Americans who, according to him, freeload off the.
- by Clarence Lang
- December 1, 2012