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Lecturers on Strike

University lecturers in the UK will walk off tomorrow in the largest-ever strike called in British higher education. Eric Fure-Slocumwp.stolaf.edu/history/people/fure-slocum-eric/

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LAWCHA New Book Interviews

Keisha Blain on Her New Book, Set the World on Fire

LaborOnline’s monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues. Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the.

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Labor History LaborOnline

Stamford Workers Show How to Transform Our Unions and Rebuild the Labor Movement

Chad Pearson: Andrew Tillett-Saks has given LAWCHA permission to re-publish this inspiring essay from Truthout. It is an excellent reminder of the long.

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Labor History

Labor History Today: Week of February 4, 2018

Union City’s Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Lane Windham and Julie Greene. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/

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Labor History

Rethinking the American Labor Movement with Liz Faue

Liz Faue’s new book, Rethinking the American Labor Movement, is our field’s newest attempt to reinterpret U.S. Labor History. I asked her a.

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LAWCHA

LAWCHA Election Results

Election chair Nancy Gabin has reported the results of the LAWCHA election. To start with, more members voted than in any previous election..

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Call for Proposals Events

MLWCH Deadline Extended: March 2

The 2018 colloquium, titled “Disorganized/De-organized/Reorganized,” will feature a keynote address by Professor Rosemary Feurer of Northern Illinois University, as well as a roundtable.

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LAWCHA

Uber, the “Metropocalypse,” and Economic Inequality in D.C.

Public transit infrastructure in Washington, D.C. is crumbling. Metro and bus services have been cut. Fares have gone up. And, safety remains a.

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LAWCHA

Winning Working-Class Voters with State Level Consumer Protection

Donald Trump’s election, made possible in part by his ability to capture the hearts, minds, aspirations, and votes of working-class men and women,.

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LAWCHA

The Polk School – Women’s Leadership Development and Labor Extension

In 1988, the Labor Education Program (a labor studies extension school) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s School of Labor and Employment.

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