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#MeToo Solidarity

Sexual harassment is both a labor and gender justice issue. After all, the workplace is the epicenter of women’s recent outrage about sexual.

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LAWCHA People

Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin

Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her new book Gateway to Equality: Black.

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LAWCHA 2017-18 Newsletter Now Available!

Our 2017-2018 newsletter is now available. It is in the mail if you are a LAWCHA member, or if you prefer, you can.

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Social Class and Trump Voters

Politico’s Michael Kruse visited my hometown earlier this month to get a look at “one of the long-forgotten, woebegone spots in the middle.

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Smash Up Derby podcast

Earlier this year, my friend Sam Smucker and I started the Smash Up Derby podcast – a podcast about “working class politics.”  By.

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LAWCHA New Book Interviews

Blake Perkins on His New Book, Hillbilly Hellraisers

Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with J. Blake Perkins’s new book Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist.

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Don’t Forget to Renew Your Membership!

It’s that time of the year again, LAWCHA members! Have you remembered to renew your membership? Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/

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Stevie Wonder, Living for the City: Labor Song of the Month (September, 2017)

Stevie Wonder is flat out the greatest American musician of the 1970s (I’m talking about the field of popular music broadly conceived —.

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA

Call for Gutman Prize Submissions: Deadline January 1, 2018

Eligible dissertations must be in English and defended in the academic year 2016-17 (September 1, 2016-August 31, 2017). Applicants are not required to.

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Crossover Appeal: Athletes, Artists, and Activists

Usually I fear that the enterprise we call social media presages worldwide doom, but once in a great while I find it promises.

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