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(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.