Staughton Lynd (1929-2022)
Staughton Lynd, one of labor history’s icons, died on November 17. He was an academic and activist when those combinations were reviled as.
In Memoriam
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Events
LAWCHA 2022 CFP Deadline Extended: October 31
New Deadline for LAWCHA 2023 conference proposals: submissions are open until October 31. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- October 12, 2022
Labor History
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New Book Interviews
A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship
This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
- by Chad Pearson
- September 24, 2022
Labor History
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New Book Interviews
A Minor Boom: Recent Historical Work on Texas Socialists
This essay initiates our Symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas, published.
- by Kyle Wilkison
- September 22, 2022
Call for Proposals
Opportunity
LAWCHA/Labor Research Grant
The Labor and Working-Class History Association and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History will jointly award a $2,000 research grant for a contingent faculty.
- by Cindy Hahamovitch
- September 11, 2022
Call for Proposals
Film & Video
LAWCHA 2023 Conference Submissions Open: Class in Everyday Life,
Roundtables, lightning rounds, and other sessions (film, moderated conversation, etc.) should include a 250-word overview that describes the sessions’ theme and the format..
- by Ryan Poe
- September 5, 2022
Labor History
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For a Just and Better World: A Profile of Two Radical Women Anarchists in the making of Revolutionary Mexico
At least five years before Mexican labor activist Caritina Piña arrived in the working-class barrio of Villa Cecilia in the outskirts of Tampico,.
- by Sonia Hernandez
- July 21, 2022
Call for Proposals
Events
LAWCHA 2023 CFP: Class in Everyday Life
The 2023 LAWCHA conference calls attention to spaces of class consciousness and organization in and beyond the workplace. CFP deadline is October 15,.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 18, 2022
In Memoriam
Joseph Bruce Nelson (1940-2022)
Bruce Nelson was a great friend. I’ll never forget the first time I met him, in the Buttercup Bakery on College Avenue in.
- by Nelson Lichtenstein
- July 16, 2022
In Memoriam
Kathryn J. Oberdeck (1958 – 2022)
Kathryn J. Oberdeck (January 18, 1958 – June 8, 2022) was a passionate fighter against all forms of inequality. She combined an unwavering.
- by Ryan Poe
- July 5, 2022