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Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies: 2017 CFP

The Southern Labor Studies Association is currently accepting submissions for the Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies. SLSA awards the Zieger.

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Jews in the Labor Movement: Past, Present and Future

Think of the greatest strikes in US labor history. Apart from the garment workers’ strikes in New York and Chicago before World War.

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Who is Shameless This Election Season? One TV Show’s Challenging Depiction of the Working Poor

Since the 2016 Presidential race began, pundits have been scrambling to understand what is apparently the most inscrutable segment of the Trump voting.

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How Community-College Faculty Organized a Strike and Scored a Contract

By Michael McCown. For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San.

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Michael McCown, “How Community-College Faculty Organized a Strike and Scored a Contract,” Portside (September 7, 2016)

For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San Francisco recently went.

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LAWCHA

White Trash, Hillbillies, and Middle-Class Stereotypes

During election years white people who do not have bachelor’s degrees (the increasingly common definition of “the working class”) become both a somewhat.

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Labor History

The ILWU History Project

In the February-March 2016 issue of Labor, under LAWCHA Watch, John W. McKerley and Jennifer Sherer write that multiple generations of labor scholars,.

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The New Democrats and the Old Dominion: A Legacy of the Hyper-Capitalist 1990s

The rise of Virginia to national political prominence has been a long time coming. Well before the centrist Tim Kaine was given the.

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Labor History

Welcome to the New Depression: A Video by Darryl Holter

Forwarded from Darrly Holter’s official newsletter. An original taste of Americana music, drawing from country, blues and folk traditions. Darryl Holter is also.

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OpEd

Martin J. Bennet, “California’s $15 Minimum Wage Earthquake!” BeyondChron (August 16, 2016)

Governor Jerry Brown recently signed legislation boosting California’s minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour — a 50 percent increase that made.

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