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.
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
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