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.
LAWCHA
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
LAWCHA
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
LAWCHA
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
LAWCHA
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
Articles
Events
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
LAWCHA
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. Lane.
- by Lane Windham
- July 2, 2018
LAWCHA
Working-Class Pride: Promise or Peril?
Pride in something seems to be a good thing to have. But pride can lead to prejudice. And it can also lead to displacement and.
- by Ken Estey
- June 29, 2018
OpEd
Martin J. Bennett, “50 Years Ago: King, Memphis, and the Poor People’s Campaign,” Beyond Chron, May 31, 2018
Most Americans know that a white racist assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4,1968 – fifty years ago. But.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- June 25, 2018
OpEd
Eladio Bobadilla, “Creating a humanitarian crisis — while ignoring U.S. history,” Herald Sun, June 18, 2017
In an effort to “send a message” to potential asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America, the Trump administration and the Jeff Sessions-led.
- by Eladio Bobadilla
- June 19, 2018