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,.
Labor History
Teaching Blog
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
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
LAWCHA
Organizing within the Academy: The Campaign to Organize Graduate Students Turns Twenty
April 16, 2016, was a day for celebration. It marked the twentieth anniversary of the union certification election that transformed a home-grown organizing.
- by John McKerley
- May 4, 2016
Call for Proposals
Events
(New Deadline: May 20) Workers and Global Cities: Detroit and Beyond, 2016 NALHC CFP
CFP Deadline: May 20, 2016. The 38th annual North American Labor History Conference will explore the connections between labor and urban history, workers.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 4, 2016
Activism
OpEd
Gregory N. Heires, “The Union Advantage for Contingent Faculty.” Portside (April 28, 2016)
A new report says faculty and graduate students at 70 colleges have voted to unionize in the past three years. There are close.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 3, 2016