A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship
This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
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A Minor Boom: Recent Historical Work on Texas Socialists
This essay initiates our Symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas, published.
- by Kyle Wilkison
- September 22, 2022
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Opportunity
LAWCHA/Labor Research Grant
The Labor and Working-Class History Association and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History will jointly award a $2,000 research grant for a contingent faculty.
- by Cindy Hahamovitch
- September 11, 2022
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LAWCHA 2023 Conference Submissions Open: Class in Everyday Life,
Roundtables, lightning rounds, and other sessions (film, moderated conversation, etc.) should include a 250-word overview that describes the sessions’ theme and the format..
- by Rosemary Feurer
- September 5, 2022
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For a Just and Better World: A Profile of Two Radical Women Anarchists in the making of Revolutionary Mexico
At least five years before Mexican labor activist Caritina Piña arrived in the working-class barrio of Villa Cecilia in the outskirts of Tampico,.
- by Sonia Hernandez
- July 21, 2022
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LAWCHA 2023 CFP: Class in Everyday Life
The 2023 LAWCHA conference calls attention to spaces of class consciousness and organization in and beyond the workplace. CFP deadline is October 15,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- July 18, 2022
In Memoriam
Joseph Bruce Nelson (1940-2022)
Bruce Nelson was a great friend. I’ll never forget the first time I met him, in the Buttercup Bakery on College Avenue in.
- by Nelson Lichtenstein
- July 16, 2022
In Memoriam
Kathryn J. Oberdeck (1958 – 2022)
Kathryn J. Oberdeck (January 18, 1958 – June 8, 2022) was a passionate fighter against all forms of inequality. She combined an unwavering.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- July 5, 2022
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Japanese Americans were Incarcerated Workers (and Strikers) in World War II
“Protest” or “hunger strike?” Officials at the Robert N. Davoren complex (R.N.D.C.), a jail part of the Rikers Island correctional facility, have offered.
- by Stephanie Hinnershitz
- February 11, 2022
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2
The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce its annual Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor.
- by Dwjuan Frazier
- October 13, 2021