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LaborOnline LAWCHA 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.

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LaborOnline LAWCHA 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.

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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.

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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,.

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2023 LAWCHA Dissertation Proposal Workshop

The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its second annual Dissertation Proposal Workshop. The workshop supports doctoral students working.

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In Memoriam People

Stephen Meyer (1942 – 2020)

Mac Marquis

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In Memoriam LaborOnline

Jane LaTour (1946-2023)

I first met Jane LaTour over forty years ago on a picket line in the northern New Jersey town of Hillside. Jane was.

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LAWCHA 2023 Conference Registration: Now Open!

Ryan Poe www.ryanmpoe.com/

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Finding Oil Women: Images of Oil’s Clerical Workforce Challenge Industry-Cultivated Myth of Rugged Masculinity

The new issue of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is out, and we are pleased to move  Sara Stanford McIntyre’s essay.

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LAWCHA New Book Interviews

The Radicalism of Working-Class Americans

In the United States there exists today, and has existed since at least the 1950s, a dominant political narrative according to which most.

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