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.
LAWCHA
LAWCHA
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Every year when I teach the sociology of work, I’m filled with the same nagging doubt: are my cultural references out of date?.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
LAWCHA
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
LaborOnline
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
Call for Proposals
Journal of Working-Class Studies June 2017 Issue CFP
Special Issue, June 2017: Popular Revolt and the Global Working Class. Epitomised by Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and Australia’s hard line.
- by Hannah Ontiveros
- March 10, 2017
OpEd
Nelson Lichtenstein, “No More Saturday Marches,” Jacobin
The brilliance of strikes and stoppages like the Day Without Immigrants and the Women’s Strike lies in organizers’ willingness to halt business as.
- by Nancy MacLean
- March 10, 2017
Call for Proposals
Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium CFP
Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium organizers are currently soliciting papers for the 2017 colloquium. We welcome scholars from any discipline interested.
- by Ryan Poe
- March 10, 2017
Articles
OpEd
“Bad Dudes”: Immigrants, Illegality, and Human Rights
By sweepingly associating immigrants who overstayed their visa or crossed the border improperly with criminal activity, the President built upon a long tradition.
- by Julie Greene
- February 27, 2017
OpEd
Eileen Boris, “The Decades of History Behind Arguments Made by President Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick,” Time, February 7, 2017
The Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. CEO is sure to be grilled by the Senate on his past statements about the rejection of higher.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 14, 2017