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
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
LAWCHA
How the Haitian refugee crisis led to the indefinite detention of immigrants
President Trump’s recent visit to Southern California to view prototypes for his much-touted border wall drew protests and new pledges by immigrants and.
- by Carl Lindskoog
- June 18, 2018
LAWCHA
The Sweat of Their Face: Exhibition Review, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, through September 3, 2018
I came in through the back entrance. It offered a clue to one strength of The Sweat of their Face: Portraying American Workers,.
- by Carol Quirke
- June 15, 2018