Global Affairs Articles
LAWCHA
Alex Lichtenstein on Marikana: A View From the Mountain and a Case to Answer
In the September 1 edition of LARB, historian Alex Lichtenstein examined the background of the massacre of striking miners at Marikana, looking closely.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 15, 2013
LAWCHA
Anthony DeStefanis Board Profile (Correction from Official Ballot)
I, Ryan Poe, mistakenly left off two full paragraphs of Anthony DeStefanis’ bio on the LAWCHA board member election ballots. Myself and the.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 5, 2013
LAWCHA
OpEd
Linda Gordon, “Juicing up the labor movement? Try speaking to women’s issues,” UAW News, December 27, 2012
On Dec. 11 Michigan passed two right-to-work laws, one for public and one for private employees. As even our president said, they mean.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 5, 2013
LAWCHA
OpEd
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 3, 2013
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 cowie
- December 16, 2012
LAWCHA
OpEd
LAWCHA Member Activity in Recent Right to Work Conflicts
- 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