How Bill Clinton Remade the Democratic Party by Abandoning Unions: An Arkansas Story
Much has been made in the recent campaign about the alienation of working-class whites from the Democratic Party. Michael Pierce shows this is.
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Don’t Blame Youngstown
The elites who turned a blind eye to an economic cataclysm are now blaming the victims. John Russo
- by John Russo
- November 18, 2016
Labor History
Clinton and Trump: Labor and the Election of 2016
Both the polling and the pundits’ predictions of a Clinton victory were wrong. The reasons for Trump’s victory in part can be understood.
- by Andrew Kolin
- November 17, 2016
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Misrepresenting the White Working Class: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and McDowell County
The Guardian‘s West Coast bureau chief paid a quick visit to McDowell County, West Virginia in October to film a video for the.
- by Daniel Sidorick
- November 15, 2016
Labor History
Anti-Union Culture-Making: “And Women Shall Weep” (1958)
Produced in 1958 by the National Right To Work Committee, the 26-minute film …And Women Must Weep tells the story of a small,.
- by Gregory Wood
- October 24, 2016
Film & Video
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“Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights,” a film by Michael Honey
Historians look for details to make history come alive, and oral history can provide them. Over thirty years of research, my scores of.
- by Michael Honey
- October 18, 2016
Call for Proposals
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Opportunity
Gutman Prize 2017: Call for Submissions
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize, established with the cooperation with.
- by Hannah Ontiveros
- October 18, 2016
Action Alerts
Activism
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Faculty Ready to Strike
The strike date is October 19. It has been 430 days without a contract (as of 10/12/16). Some negotiations will take place beginning.
- by David Obringer
- October 14, 2016
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Working on the Verge of “Campus Carry”
One of several nightmarish outcomes of Kansas' swing to the Tea Party Republican right following the presidential election of Barack Obama, the state.
- by Clarence Lang
- October 11, 2016
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Tinkering with Taxes
The recent debacle Apple has found itself in brings attention to how companies skip from country to country to avoid taxes. In a.
- by David Obringer
- October 10, 2016