The Education Campaign: Addressing Inequality through Teaching and Learning?
Other than Hillary Clinton’s adoption of Bernie Sanders’s proposal to make college tuition free for most Americans, we haven’t heard much about education.
LAWCHA
Labor History
Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights
This August Bullfrog Films launches, Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights, a 38-minute film introduction.
- by Michael Honey
- August 19, 2016
Call for Proposals
Events
Class Struggle – Race, Gender, and Revolution: WCSA 2017 CFP (Deadline: February 21, 2017)
The 2017 WCSA conference theme, “Class Struggle: Race, Gender, and Revolution,” seeks to take stock of the legacy, present, and future possibilities of.
- by Ryan Poe
- August 19, 2016
Labor History
AWOC Audio Recordings Now Digitized
The Reuther Library is pleased to announce the digitization of over 100 reel-to-reel audio recordings related to the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC)..
- by The Walter P. Reuther Library
- August 15, 2016
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Portrait of a “Marriage”: Radicals & the Democratic Party
Prof. James N. Gregory has performed a real service with his “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders” (re-posted.
- by Mark Lause
- August 12, 2016
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Why Labor Historians Should Remember Leslie Brown
Even if you did not know her personally, you should mourn Professor Leslie Brown, who passed away earlier this month. She was many.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 12, 2016
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Chasing Tax Cheats to Create Jobs: Why Don’t We Do That?
I’m guessing that tax collectors have never been a popular group, but we need thousands more of them, probably about 50,000 more. Why?.
- by Jack Metzgar
- August 6, 2016
Labor History
OpEd
James N. Gregory, “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders,” The Conversation (August 2, 2016)
As we watch Bernie Sanders’ supporters struggling to come to terms with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, it makes sense to ask why.
- by Ryan Poe
- August 4, 2016
OpEd
Leon Fink, “On Trade, Our Choices Aren’t Only Xenophobic Nationalism Or Neoliberal Globalization,”In These Times (August 2, 2016)
Few issues are receiving a more insipid—and thus more harmful—treatment in our public discourse than world trade. Along with immigration, “free trade” is.
- by Ryan Poe
- August 4, 2016