LAWCHA 2017 Conference (Seattle): CFP Deadline Extended to October 15
The Labor and Working Class History Association, an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators and activists, welcomes individual and session proposals for.
Labor History
National History Day Students Win 2016 Regional Video Contest Employing Labor Archives of Washington Collections and Staff Interviews
Every year the Labor Archives of Washington at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections works with National History Day students on their.
- by Conor Casey
- August 31, 2016
LAWCHA
Best Read for Labor Day 2016: Tamara Draut’s Sleeping Giant
Like me, are you bone weary of hearing non-stop news coverage of Donald Trump? Do you roll your eyes when the pundits “discover”.
- by Lane Windham
- August 31, 2016
Events
Celebrating Jim Green’s Life and Work: November 12 Memorial Event
The Labor Resource Center and many friends and family of Jim Green will be gathering to celebrate Jim’s life and work at 2.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- August 27, 2016
Film & Video
Labor History
New Film “Love and Solidarity”, Non-violence for Systemic Change
Love and Solidarity, a new film directed by Mike Honey and co-produced with film maker Errol Webber. Non-violence is not passive, but is.
- by William Jones
- August 27, 2016
Labor History
Irish Rebels at Home and Abroad
We have had quite a year, in 2016, of Irish history, certainly the biggest for decades. The centenary of the 1916 uprising offered.
- by Paul Buhle
- August 27, 2016
LAWCHA
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.
- by Sherry Linkon
- August 20, 2016
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 Rosemary Feurer
- August 19, 2016
In Memoriam
Leslie Brown, 1955-2016
Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- August 15, 2016