Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism?
New York State and California have both created commissions to study the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the legacy of slavery.
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Harvey Schwartz on Labor Under Siege–a Book about the ILWU and Union President “Big Bob” McEllrath
Introduction: An injury to one is an injury to all. Motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. ILWU demonstrators at the Vancouver,.
- by Robin Lindley
- April 19, 2024
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What the Ancestors Would Do: Reflections on Helping to Organize a Union
On February 28, my contract faculty colleagues and I won our union, Contract Faculty United – UAW. My colleagues and I voted 553-72.
- by Jacob Remes
- April 9, 2024
Issues of Labor
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Labor History and History of Science: Better Together
The conversations eventuating in the current “Labor and Science” special issue of Labor began almost three years ago to the day. Lissa Roberts.
- by Seth Rockman
- April 2, 2024
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“A debt paid for abandoned goals”: A Reflection from What Work Is
In recognition of Women’s History Month, I offer the following excerpt from my recently published book, What Work Is. The book is built.
- by Bob Bruno
- March 28, 2024
Issues of Labor
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On Equal Terms-Gender and Solidarity
I am deeply pleased that Labor has published a review of my interactive digital installation, On Equal Terms: gender & solidarity, and that.
- by Susan Eisenberg
- March 25, 2024
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
Remembering Ludlow, Forgetting Columbine
On November 21, 1927, twenty Colorado strike policemen shot into a crowd of 500 men, women, and children in the company town of.
- by Leigh Campbell-Hale
- March 20, 2024
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New Book Interviews
James C. Benton on his recent book, Fraying Fabric How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America
James C Benton’s 2022 Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America (University of Illinois Press, 2022) asks important questions about.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 17, 2024
Events
New Book Interviews
LAWCHA Book Talks
Dear LAWCHA members and supporters,Please join The Labor and Working Class History Association on August 24, 2023 at 7PM EDT for a discussion.
- by LAWCHA Board of Directors
- August 27, 2023
Events
2023 LAWCHA Alice Kessler-Harris Dissertation Prospectus Award
The Labor and Working-Class History (LAWCHA) Alice Kessler-Harris Dissertation Prospectus Award is awarded to the best dissertation prospectus about working people, their lives,.
- by Mac Marquis
- August 26, 2023