GOP Law Fails to Break Iowa’s Largest Public-Sector Unions
One of the most transparent union-busting provisions of Iowa’s new collective bargaining law has failed to significantly reduce the number of workers covered.
Call for Proposals
Disorganized/De-organized/Reorganized: Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium 2018
We welcome scholars from any discipline interested in presenting on topics that fit the theme, broadly defined. The colloquium is open to scholars,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- November 8, 2017
LAWCHA
Don’t Forget to Renew Your Membership!
It’s that time of the year again, LAWCHA members! Have you remembered to renew your membership?
- by Rosemary Feurer
- November 6, 2017
LAWCHA
Stevie Wonder, Living for the City: Labor Song of the Month (September, 2017)
Stevie Wonder is flat out the greatest American musician of the 1970s (I’m talking about the field of popular music broadly conceived —.
- by Daniel Graff
- November 2, 2017
Call for Proposals
LAWCHA
Call for Gutman Prize Submissions: Deadline January 1, 2018
Eligible dissertations must be in English and defended in the academic year 2016-17 (September 1, 2016-August 31, 2017). Applicants are not required to.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 30, 2017
Labor History
Labor Song of the Month
Greetings from the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame, where we are actively building our online presence with original content..
- by Daniel Graff
- October 30, 2017
LAWCHA
Crossover Appeal: Athletes, Artists, and Activists
Usually I fear that the enterprise we call social media presages worldwide doom, but once in a great while I find it promises.
- by Daniel Graff
- October 18, 2017
LAWCHA
New Book Interviews
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,.
- by Jacob Remes
- October 13, 2017
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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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