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.
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.
- by Louis Martin
- December 22, 2017
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.
- by Sarah Attfield
- December 15, 2017
LAWCHA
#MeToo Solidarity
Sexual harassment is both a labor and gender justice issue. After all, the workplace is the epicenter of women’s recent outrage about sexual.
- by Lane Windham
- December 6, 2017
Articles
Marxism Beyond the Economy and Exploitation Beyond the Wage, Eva-Maria Swidler
Since its inception Marxism has largely operated with a narrow definition of the economy which closely resembles capitalism’s own, focusing on wage labor.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 6, 2017
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People
Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin
Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her new book Gateway to Equality: Black.
- by Candace Borders
- December 2, 2017
LAWCHA
LAWCHA 2017-18 Newsletter Now Available!
Our 2017-2018 newsletter is now available. It is in the mail if you are a LAWCHA member, or if you prefer, you can.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- November 29, 2017
LAWCHA
Social Class and Trump Voters
Politico’s Michael Kruse visited my hometown earlier this month to get a look at “one of the long-forgotten, woebegone spots in the middle.
- by Jack Metzgar
- November 28, 2017
LAWCHA
Smash Up Derby podcast
Earlier this year, my friend Sam Smucker and I started the Smash Up Derby podcast – a podcast about “working class politics.” By.
- by Jonathan Kissam
- November 28, 2017
LAWCHA
New Book Interviews
Blake Perkins on His New Book, Hillbilly Hellraisers
Our monthly series on new books in labor and working-class history continues with J. Blake Perkins’s new book Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist.
- by Jacob Remes
- November 27, 2017