Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?
Academe is a privileged place. It was designed to serve and continues to be dominated by people from educated, well-off backgrounds. Its hierarchical.
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LRAN Conference Registration Open
Register now for the 2016 Labor Research and Action Network national conference, which will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 31, 2016
Labor History
Remembering the Last Great Strike this Memorial Day
On the afternoon of Memorial Day, 1937, at least 1,500 striking steel workers and their supporters marched across a sun-drenched field in the.
- by Ahmed White
- May 30, 2016
Labor History
Teaching Blog
Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed
For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 29, 2016
Call for Proposals
Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations CFP: September 30 Deadline
The National Center for the Study Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions forwards us their call for papers for the March.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 19, 2016
OpEd
William P. Jones, “Ray Cross’ misunderstanding of history undercuts his position,” The Journal Sentinel (May 11, 2016)
In a recently publicized private memo, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross compared tenured faculty “who are no longer needed in a.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 12, 2016
LAWCHA
The Global Threat from the Right: Labor’s Trans-Atlantic Conversation
The timing couldn’t have been more apt: a trans-Atlantic conference on the rise of the right, just days after Donald Trump became the.
- by Lane Windham
- May 11, 2016
Labor History
The Easter Rising 100 years on: How the Irish revolution fired up American politics
On July 27, 1919, Marcus Garvey, the African-American nationalist then nearing the height of his influence, rose to address a crowd of almost.
- by David Brundage
- May 9, 2016
LAWCHA
Brazil’s Solidarity Economy
My first face-to-face introduction to the solidarity economy in Southern Brazil was a visit to a recycling cooperative. Through hard work, the 16-member.
- by Ruth Needleman
- May 6, 2016
Labor History
When Socialists Won Elections (and Where)
Bernie Sanders has come close. And in doing so he has demonstrated that in 2016 the label democratic socialist is no longer a.
- by James Gregory
- May 5, 2016