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Film & Video LAWCHA

“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.

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA 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.

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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.

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LAWCHA

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.

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LAWCHA

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.

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Call for Proposals

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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Articles Labor History

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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LAWCHA

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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Activism Teaching Blog

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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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog OpEd

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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