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Opportunity: Instructor at Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center (LERC)

The Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) is a state-wide program that combines teaching, research, and public service to improve the lives of.

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Opportunity

Opportunity: Labor Policy Research Assistant/Associate at Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center (LERC)

LERC will be hiring for one position at the research assistant or research associate level, depending on education and experience. This non-tenure track.

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Labor History

Hope in the Heartland: The Struggle for Public-Sector Collective Bargaining in Iowa

In November 2016, Iowa Republicans erased a slim Democratic majority in that state’s Senate, giving the party “trifecta” control of both houses of.

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Labor History

GOP Law Fails to Break Iowa’s Largest Public-Sector Unions

One of the most transparent union-busting provisions of Iowa’s new collective bargaining law has failed to significantly reduce the number of workers covered.

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Call for Proposals

Disorganized/De-organized/Reorganized: Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium 2018

We welcome scholars from any discipline interested in presenting on topics that fit the theme, broadly defined. The colloquium is open to scholars,.

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LAWCHA

Don’t Forget to Renew Your Membership!

It’s that time of the year again, LAWCHA members! Have you remembered to renew your membership? Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/

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LAWCHA

Stevie Wonder, Living for the City: Labor Song of the Month (September, 2017)

Stevie Wonder is flat out the greatest American musician of the 1970s (I’m talking about the field of popular music broadly conceived —.

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA

Call for Gutman Prize Submissions: Deadline January 1, 2018

Eligible dissertations must be in English and defended in the academic year 2016-17 (September 1, 2016-August 31, 2017). Applicants are not required to.

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Labor History

Labor Song of the Month

Greetings from the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame, where we are actively building our online presence with original content..

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LAWCHA

Crossover Appeal: Athletes, Artists, and Activists

Usually I fear that the enterprise we call social media presages worldwide doom, but once in a great while I find it promises.

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