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.
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.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- March 17, 2016
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.
- by David Obringer
- March 8, 2016
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.
- by Jennifer Eidson
- March 2, 2016
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..
- by Ryan Poe
- March 2, 2016
Global Affairs Articles
Labor History
LAWCHA
LAWCHA Joins the Global Labour History Network
The Global Labour History Network (GLHN) is an interdisciplinary network of historians and other social scientists, founded in Barcelona on June 16, 2015..
- by Ryan Poe
- March 2, 2016
Call for Proposals
Labor History
New Book Interviews
Reviving Southern Labor History: Call for Contributors for New Book on Southern Labor History
Since the mid-1970s only a handful of books on southern labor history have been published. As Alan Draper wrote nearly twenty years ago,.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 28, 2016
Call for Proposals
LAWCHA
LAWCHA Seeking LaborOnline Contributors: Anyone Can Contribute
LAWCHA invites students, activists, scholars, educators, and everyone between to contribute to the ongoing conversation at LaborOnline. We consider pieces of any length.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 25, 2016
Call for Proposals
Deadline Extended: Social Justice for a Global Working Class: MLWCH Colloquium
The upcoming MLWCH conference at Purdue has extended its CFP deadline to March 20. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- February 25, 2016
Call for Proposals
LRAN 2016 Call for Proposals: Due March 14
LAWCHA invites you to submit a proposal for our annual Labor Research Action Network (LRAN) conference, which will be held June 24th-25th in.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 25, 2016