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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.

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LAWCHA

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.

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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,.

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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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