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.
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.
- by Eva Swidler
- June 9, 2016
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.
- by Katherine Turk
- June 9, 2016
Labor History
LaborOnline
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.
- by Sherry Linkon
- June 3, 2016
Events
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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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