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.
LAWCHA
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.
- by David Obringer
- October 10, 2016
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.
- by Lane Windham
- October 9, 2016
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.
- by Bennett Muraskin
- October 2, 2016
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.
- by Pamela Fox
- September 29, 2016
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