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.
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- July 5, 2016
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- July 5, 2016
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- July 4, 2016
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’.
- by Sean Purdy
- June 28, 2016
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.
- by Tim Strangleman
- June 27, 2016
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..
- by Jennifer Eidson
- June 27, 2016
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.
- by James Gregory
- June 27, 2016
LAWCHA
Racism and the “Working Class” in Media Coverage of U.S. Politics
During the first Democratic presidential debate, a friend of mine posted on Facebook: “Sanders did it! He said working class! Everybody drinks!” Robyn.
- by Robyn Muncy
- June 22, 2016
LAWCHA
The Limits to Entrepreneurship: Why Innovation Won’t Solve Poverty
Can starting your own business rocket someone from the near bottom to near top of the economic pyramid? It might work for a.
- by Mark Popovich
- June 20, 2016