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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.

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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.

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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.

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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,.

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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.

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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.

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Labor History

A Special Relationship? A public exhibition about ties between British and American labour from the TUC Library

The Trades Union Congress Library is about to open a new exhibition, Labour’s Special Relationship?, about historic ties between the British and American.

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OpEd

The GOP Tax Bill Could Kill Two Birds with One Stone

Why doesn’t the GOP seem to care that its tax bill will drive up the deficit by $1.5 trillion? After all, for most.

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Labor History

Join Us in Celebrating and Sustaining the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum

The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum has just finished its third year open in Matewan, and what a year it was. Louis Martin

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LAWCHA

Working-Class Women Unionists on the Front Lines

On November 16, 2017, thousands of construction workers walked off their job sites to march through central Sydney in protest against laws designed.

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