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.
LAWCHA
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.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- September 27, 2016
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.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- September 25, 2016
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.
- by Jack Metzgar
- September 25, 2016
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,.
- by Harvey Schwartz
- September 17, 2016
Labor History
LaborOnline
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.
- by Michael Dennis
- September 15, 2016
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.
- by Michael Honey
- September 10, 2016
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.
- by Mark Lause
- September 10, 2016
Labor History
Encourage Public Labor History
In a recent LAWCHA post, Conor Casey, of the Labor Archives of Washington at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, properly cheered students.
- by Bill Barry
- September 9, 2016
Labor History
We Do the Work: An Interview with Conor Casey
The latest episode of the Labor Archives of Washington’s regular segment on the KSVR radio show We Do the Work is now streaming.
- by Conor Casey
- September 2, 2016