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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..

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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.

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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.

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Activism

UnKoch My Campus

UnKoch My Campus works with passionate students, fiery faculty, and concerned community members to fight the corrupting influence of Koch brothers’ funding at.

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Labor History New Book Interviews

Lane Windham on her new book: Knocking on Labor’s Door

Lane Windham’s new book, Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide, was officially.

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Labor History

East Side Freedom Library

Happy Labor Day! I want to call our project — the East Side Freedom Library — to your attention. We are three years.

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Labor History

It’s Time to Fire the “Union Boss”: Here’s Why

In case natural disaster, nuclear war, and unpredictable political leaders are not enough to keep us up at night, we remain under threat.

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Labor History

More Than A Picnic: A Lesson in Labor Day

Before there were Labor Day barbecues and Labor Day sales, there was Labor–workers in the 19th century pushing for an eight-hour day and.

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LAWCHA

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.

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