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Middle-Class Influence vs. Working-Class Character

“Jesse” is one of a cohort of 80 students sociologist Jessica Calarco observed from the 3rd through the 5th grades and then revisited in middle.

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Sorry to Bother You: A Spectacle That Teaches

If you haven’t seen Sorry to Bother You yet, please stop reading this and find somewhere in your town that is still playing the film..

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Worker Rights Attacks Part of Human Rights Crackdown

Human rights activists around the world celebrated the recent release from prison of two union leaders in Kazakhstan who were convicted of bogus criminal charges.

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LAWCHA 2019 CFP Updated

Paper submissions are now open!

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Labor and the Digital Landscape: An Update

When “Connecting the Dots: Labor and the Digital Landscape” went to press at LABOR (15:3), the wave of union organizing and activism in.

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LAWCHA Move Boosts Independent Historians

As more and more new history graduates pursue careers outside academia—out of choice or necessity—and with many scholars now part of the “gig.

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The University of Iowa Labor Center Is Under Attack

The University of Iowa Labor Center is under attack. LAWCHA has mobilized to support the fight to keep it open.

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Former LAWCHA President Nancy MacLean Testifies in Senate Hearing

I was invited by Senators Whitehouse and Stabenow and the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee to open a hearing entitled “After Janus v..

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Iowa’s Next Election: Bridging the Urban-Rural and Class Divide

My home state of Iowa famously gave Barack Obama a convincing victory in the Democratic caucuses in 2008, the first triumph that launched a.

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This is Your Daughter’s Labor Movement

If there is going to be a revival of the U.S. labor movement, it’s likely that women are going to lead it.

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