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Social Justice for a Global Working Class: the Midwest Labor and Working Class History’s 2016 Annual Conference

On June 10th students, activists, and scholars met at Purdue University for the 2016 annual Midwest Labor and Working Class History (MLWCH) conference..

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Power-Hungry Counter-Revolutionaries or Bourgeois Radicals?

Readers of the LAWCHA blog will be interested in a few of the different leftist interpretations of the meaning of American independence and.

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Building a radically engaged library: East Side Freedom Library celebrates second year

Two years ago, founders of St. Paul’s East Side Freedom Library founders Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff opened the doors to an institution.

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LAWCHA People

Share your memories of James Green

If you would like to share your remembrance of the late James Green to be posted on our remembrance page in celebration of.

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LAWCHA

Submission and Review Guidelines for Labor

Looking to submit an article to LAWCHA’s official journal, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History? Check out our submission and review guidelines to ensure.

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Labor History

Historic Levels of Inequality

The pundits always seem to miss the politics of capitalism in their effort to explain inequality. It looks like a new book by.

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Labor History

The Coup in Brazil: What It Means for Workers

On May 11, more than two thirds of senators in Brazil voted to advance impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’.

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LAWCHA

A Working-Class Brexit

I woke up Friday morning to the news that my country decided that it no longer wants to be part of the European.

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Activism

LGBT Advocacy and the AFL-CIO

June is Pride Month in the U.S. Pride, this year, marks the 47th anniversary of Stonewall, and the first year since Obergefell v..

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In Memoriam

James Green, 1944-2016

With great sadness we mark the passing of James Green, former president of LAWCHA, scholar, activist, and mentor to countless labor historians. He.

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