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.
LAWCHA
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 Ryan Poe
- 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 Ryan Poe
- May 3, 2016
OpEd
Lane Windham, “Let Penn State grad students decide if they want to form a union: The administration and faculty members should stay neutral.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 26, 2016)
A directive on how to fight graduate employees’ unionization efforts was the last thing I expected Penn State University’s Graduate School to plop.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 3, 2016
LAWCHA
Participatory Budgeting: A School for Citizenship
Jockeying to get funds for a neighborhood playground or clinic is nothing new. But in the absence of an organized procedure, cities tend.
- by Ruth Needleman
- April 27, 2016
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.
- by David Obringer
- April 26, 2016
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 25, 2016
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 20, 2016
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 19, 2016
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 15, 2016