Find and Follow Your North Star
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad has now won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction, and it’s a fitting choice.
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African Labor Migrants, Discrimination, and Xenophobia
Seventeen years ago, Chris Muwani migrated from Zimbabwe to South Africa, where he works on a tomato farm. If he does not fulfill.
- by Tula Connell
- April 21, 2017
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The Working Class at the Oscars
A scene in Denzel Washington’s movie of Fences is not in August Wilson’s original play, and it illustrates how a spate of Oscar-nominated.
- by Jack Metzgar
- April 15, 2017
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The South has Risen Again
Over 150 years ago Abraham Lincoln warned northerners that southern slaveowners and their advocates hoped to do more than expand slavery westward —.
- by Daniel Graff
- April 14, 2017
OpEd
From Pink Collars to Pink Hats: Working-Class Feminism and the Resistance
Today’s feminism has the power to change not just politics, but the nation’s economic landscape, too. Lane Windhamlwp.georgetown.edu/about/
- by Lane Windham
- April 1, 2017
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Context is Everything: Why Hidden Figures Feels not just Good, but Necessary
While Hidden Figures traffics in familiar Hollywood tropes, it also takes very seriously the discrimination endured by our heroines, reminding us that it.
- by Daniel Graff
- March 30, 2017
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Class on the Small Screen
Every year when I teach the sociology of work, I’m filled with the same nagging doubt: are my cultural references out of date?.
- by Tim Strangleman
- March 30, 2017
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Class & Politics at the Dawn of the Trump Era
In trying to make sense of the surprising 2016 election — Who were Trump’s supporters? Were they motivated by the politics of pocketbooks,.
- by Daniel Graff
- March 27, 2017
Labor History
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Labor and the Legacies of World War I
April 2017 marks the 100th year anniversary of U.S. entrance into World War I. Doubtless most of the commemorations of this event will.
- by Elizabeth McKillen
- March 20, 2017
Call for Proposals
Why History? Association of Academic Historians in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools in Sydney, Australia, November, 2017
The Business and Labour History Group (BLHG) of University of Sydney Business School, Australia, will be hosting the 9th Annual Conference of AAHANZBS.
- by Ryan Poe
- March 10, 2017