Emily Twarog on her new book, Politics of the Pantry
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with Emily E. LB. Twarog’s Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food,.
LAWCHA
New Book Interviews
Call for Proposals
Call for Working Group Discussants: 2018 NCPH Annual Meeting Las Vegas, Nevada April 18-21, 2018
Working groups, involving facilitators and up to twelve discussants, allow conferees to explore in depth a subject of shared concern before and during.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 4, 2017
LAWCHA
Calling Luther to a Labor Ethic
October 31, 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s defiant act of protest against the Church. What does this distant anniversary.
- by Ken Estey
- October 4, 2017
Activism
OpEd
Don’t end DACA, pass comprehensive reform
In the summer of 2005, I was young undocumented immigrant, with little hope and few prospects for a dignified future. Having just graduated.
- by Eladio Bobadilla
- September 18, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Events
Online Registration Open for Higher Education Labor-Management Conference
The National Center is pleased to announce that online registration has begun for a higher education labor-management conference on December 1-2, 2017 at.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 18, 2017
LAWCHA
Race AND Class, Then and Now
Just a few days after white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, my husband and I went to see Kathryn Bigelow’s film, Detroit. Set amid.
- by Sherry Linkon
- September 15, 2017
Call for Proposals
Call for Papers: 2018 Louisiana Historical Association Annual Meeting
The complex history of Louisiana with a narrative that does not neatly fit into the 13 colony Anglo-American story has resulted in leaving.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 12, 2017
Labor History
OpEd
The media still gets the working class wrong — but not in the way you think.
This will be the first Labor Day since America rediscovered its working class — or, more accurately, one part of its working class..
- by Lane Windham
- September 11, 2017
Call for Proposals
Southern Labor Studies Association Dissertation Prospectus Workshop
The SLSA will hold a Dissertation Prospectus Workshop on the first day of its upcoming conference in Athens, GA (May 17-19). Doctoral students.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 11, 2017
Labor History
Karl Marx Makes a Comeback
Several months ago the Communist party in Russia updated their visual propaganda by giving three of their most controversial icons—Lenin, Stalin, and Karl.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- September 7, 2017