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.
LAWCHA
Labor History
Worker Portraits: Contradictions and Contingency
Paintings and sculptures often represent those with power, not the working class. Yet, a current exhibit at Washington, D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery, “The.
- by Sherry Linkon
- January 30, 2018
Call for Proposals
Events
LRAN Conference Call for Proposals: Proposal Deadline Friday, March 16
Scholars, labor practitioners, and activists from across the country will convene in Nashville, TN to share new ideas and lessons learned, and connect.
- by Lane Windham
- January 29, 2018
Call for Proposals
Events
MLWCH CFP Deadline Approaching: February 2, 2018
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 29, 2018
Call for Proposals
Events
Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference: Call for Applications
The time has come again to recruit women to attend the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference. This year the school will.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- January 25, 2018
Labor History
Labor History Today: January 14-20, 2018
This week’s labor history: Dr. Martin Luther King and organized labor; John F. Kennedy guarantees federal workers the right to join unions; how.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 25, 2018
LAWCHA
New Book Interviews
Jessica Ziparo on her new book, This Grand Experiment
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with Jessica Ziparo’s new book, This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the.
- by Jacob Remes
- January 24, 2018
Call for Proposals
40th Annual NALHC CFP: Deadline April 15, 2018
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC), an international conference with a global perspective on labor and working-class history,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 17, 2018
OpEd
NAFTA’s Long Shadow: Where immigration and economic policy meet
Congressional Democrats and Republicans regularly play the blame game about why there’s no immigration reform. But each party fails to point the finger.
- by Sarah McNamara
- January 17, 2018
LAWCHA
Making America White Again: Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio
Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio, former Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, was a major set-back for immigrant and human rights activists who.
- by Mary Romero
- January 9, 2018