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.
Labor History
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
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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- April 19, 2016