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LAWCHA

Should Right to Work Laws be Legal?

If ever a law was mislabeled, it is the Right to Work legislation. This anti-union contagion has spread through state legislatures like an.

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Call for Proposals

Southern Cultures Appalachia Special Issue

Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists.

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LAWCHA People

Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf win 2016 David Montgomery Award

For their book, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie(University of Illinois Press, 2015), LAWCHA members.

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LAWCHA People

James Green Awarded LAWCHA’s Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History

We are proud to announce former LAWCHA President James Green as the recipient of this year’s Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and.

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LAWCHA People

Alice Kessler-Harris wins Sol Stetin Award for Labor History

We are proud to announce that former LAWCHA President Alice Kessler-Harris has been awarded the 2016 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History. Born.

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Global Affairs Articles Labor History

French Workers Fight to Maintain 35-Hour Work Week

French workers are fighting to maintain their 35 hour work week. Adopted in February of 2000, as part of the platform of France’s.

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Activism Global Affairs Articles

Garment Workers are Speaking Out – Will Nike Listen?

Today marks the first day of our countrywide worker speak-out featuring Noi Supalai, a former union President and Nike worker from Thailand. While.

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LAWCHA

Is It Time for a Six-Hour Work Day?

A 2014 Gallup poll shows Americans work an average of 47 hours per week. But should the work week be 30 hours? And.

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Labor History

AFL-CIO Merger: In Commemoration of the AFL-CIO’s 60th Anniversary

Before 1955, the AFL (American Federation of Labor) and the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) were separate, competing organizations. The two organizations chose.

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OpEd

“In Minnesota, public-sector workers building power from the inside out.” The Union Advocate (February 19, 2016)

They may no longer be on the brink of a Supreme Court-imposed Right-to-Work rule, but Minnesota’s public-sector union members aren’t celebrating. They’re organizing..

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