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.
- by Tula Connell
- August 20, 2018
Call for Proposals
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LAWCHA 2019 CFP Updated
Paper submissions are now open! Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- August 20, 2018
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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.
- by Richard Wells
- August 19, 2018
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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.
- by Tula Connell
- August 6, 2018
Call for Proposals
Continuing the Struggle: The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights
October 29, 2019, will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the first International Labor Conference (ILC), held in the Pan American Union Building in.
- by Lane Windham
- August 6, 2018
Action Alerts
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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. Jacob Remeswp.nyu.edu/remes
- by Jacob Remes
- July 22, 2018
Labor History
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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..
- by Nancy MacLean
- July 18, 2018
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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.
- by Christopher R. Martin
- July 18, 2018
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Dis-Organized/De-Organized/Reorganized: Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Graduate Colloquium
The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Graduate Colloquium met on May 26th, 2018 at the University of Iowa, where it was founded by.
- by Ashley Dorn
- July 3, 2018