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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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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.

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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.

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Labor History

Labor Archives and Research Center 30th Anniversary Celebration

Flyaway Productions, a Bay Area dance company, was commissioned by the Labor Archives and Research Center to create an aerial site-specific performance, choreographed.

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Activism Labor History

Radical Leisure

Connections, both real and hoped for, between the labor movement and environmentalists have been news for at least fifteen years now. The possibility.

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LAWCHA

Sex Equality by What Measure?

Many of North Carolina's HB2’s opponents have pinned their hopes on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the once-ambiguous federal.

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