Nancy MacLean on Democracy Now
Amy Goodman spoke with Duke University historian and former LAWCHA president Nancy MacLean, author of the new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep.
Labor History
Labor Mobilizations and Movements: The 2017 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium
The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History (MLWCH) colloquium met at the University of Memphis on June 2nd, 2017. The one-day event included academic.
- by Andrea Ringer
- June 29, 2017
Labor History
LaborOnline
Black Education, Racism, and Class: Reflections from a Charter High School Graduation
This May I attended the commencement ceremony for a young cousin who was one of 117 graduates from an overwhelmingly black charter high.
- by Clarence Lang
- June 20, 2017
LAWCHA
Have We Been Had? Why Talking About the Working-Class Vote for Trump Hurts Us
Like many of my friends and colleagues who study class and are worried about the increasing economic inequality of this country, I was.
- by Allison L. Hurst
- June 20, 2017
Labor History
LaborOnline
The New Left, Labor History and the Unending Echoes of 1956
Stuart Hall with Bill Schwarz, Familiar Stranger: a Life Between Two Islands. Duke University Press, 2017. 271pp, $29.95 pbk Stuart Hall, Selected Political.
- by Paul Buhle
- June 9, 2017
LAWCHA
After Paycheck Taxes
I am a public employee. And what is worse, I work at a university. Mine is a public university sucking the lifeblood out.
- by David Obringer
- June 6, 2017
Labor History
OpEd
Conor Casey and Evangeline Urcia on We Do the Work: Filipino American activist, poet, writer, and worker Carlos Bulosan
The latest episode of the Labor Archives of Washington’s regular segment on the KSVR radio show We Do the Work is now streaming.
- by Conor Casey
- June 2, 2017
Labor History
Community Connections: Inreach and Outreach as Archival Advocacy Activities
Advocacy activities articulating the value of archives can be an important component of inreach and outreach activities. Effective advocacy requires that archivists make.
- by Conor Casey
- June 2, 2017
Call for Proposals
Opportunity
Reed Fink Award deadline extended to May 31
Application for Reed Fink Award has been extended to May 31. One or more fellowship(s) of at least $250 are awarded annually to.
- by Lane Windham
- May 29, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
OpEd
Podcast with Jen Klein: Fighting for graduate student unions at Yale
A group of Yale graduate students are protesting their labor conditions as teachers. They are demanding the administration recognize them as a union.
- by Jennifer Klein
- May 29, 2017