Valuing a Lost Work Culture
Late last fall I visited Stoke-on Trent, a city in the North-West of England which was once the epicentre of the UK’s huge.
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Call for Proposals
Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies: 2017 CFP
The Southern Labor Studies Association is currently accepting submissions for the Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies. SLSA awards the Zieger.
- by Ryan Poe
- August 28, 2017
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Getting Over in the Heart of Dixie
When people think about progressive battles in the U.S., they probably don’t think about Alabama. Instead, the state is known as the home.
- by Helen Diana Eidson
- August 19, 2017
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Imagine If Migrant Workers Had Labor Rights
Women in migration are not ‘vulnerable,’ in need of ‘rescue’—they are advocates and agents of change. Current migration policies must be changed from.
- by Tula Connell
- August 19, 2017
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Nativism Needs Fake History
Stephen Miller is the latest clone of Ann Coulter offered the public by the administration of President Donald J. Trump. Mark Lausewww.artsci.uc.edu/collegedepts/history/fac_staff/profile_details.aspx?ePID=MjY4Mjk%3D
- by Mark Lause
- August 14, 2017
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The Dual Economy
In his new book The Vanishing Middle Class, MIT economist Peter Temin provides a short and accessible take on this country’s deeply unequal.
- by Victor Tan Chen
- August 10, 2017
LAWCHA
The Work Lives of Uber Drivers: Worse Than You Think
To be an Uber driver is to work when you want. Or so Uber likes to say in recruitment materials, advertisements, and sponsored.
- by Katie Wells
- August 8, 2017
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Calling all Labor Historians: A New Resource to Tell Labor’s Story
A new LAWCHA initiative to develop classroom and public knowledge of labor history Randi Storch
- by Randi Storch
- August 4, 2017
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Poor Whites and the Labor Crisis in the Slave South
While studies on southern slaveholders, yeomen, and even the enslaved abound, relatively little has been written about the Deep South’s white working-class. My.
- by Keri Leigh Merritt
- July 17, 2017
LAWCHA
LAWCHA In Seattle: 2017 Conference Recap
The Scales of Struggle conference featured the largest program of any LAWCHA conference to date features nearly 100 panels, workshops, films, and performances,.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 6, 2017