LERA Conference: Employment Relations in the Age of Uber and the Gig Economy
The Labor and Employment Relations Association cordially invites submissions of symposia, workshops, and individual papers for the 2016 Annual Meetings of LERA, to.
Call for Proposals
Labor, Justice and the Environment
The PNLHA invites proposals for presentations, workshops and performances that explore the historical experiences of workers and their organizations in the Pacific Northwest.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 17, 2015
Call for Proposals
Re-energizing Communities: Building Worker Solidarity and Social Justice
CAWLS 2016 Conference. he Congress theme, “Energizing Communities” seeks to engage our collective interest in how communities are organized, how they respond to.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 17, 2015
Opportunity
A Gold Medal and $1,000 for Labor History Contest
National History Day (NHD) is a highly regarded academic program for elementary and secondary school students. The American Labor Studies Center (ALSC) annually.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 17, 2015
Opportunity
Special Collections Librarian for Labor Studies at the University of Maryland
The University of Maryland Libraries serve more than 37,500 students and 4,200 faculty at the University System of Maryland’s flagship campus and constitute.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 17, 2015
Articles
Labor History
LaborOnline
The Million Man March at Twenty: Revisiting a Spectacle of “Atonement,” Class Stewardship, and Patriarchy
The Million Man March commemorates its twentieth-year anniversary this month, which historians argue had problematic racial, class, and gender politics. Clarence Lang explores.
- by Clarence Lang
- October 16, 2015
Labor History
Fighting Inequality through Teaching, Scholarship and Activism: A Roundtable Discussion on the Career of Jim Barrett
For five-days “Fighting Inequality” conference (May 2015) participants critically considered ways, then and now, that working-class people experience and struggle against class inequality..
- by Randi Storch
- September 25, 2015
Call for Proposals
Labor History
BC Labor Heritage Centre Call for Articles and Papers: Deadline October 10
The B.C. Labour Heritage Centre is an independent not-for-profit historical society with charity status, working to preserve and expand the knowledge of the.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 24, 2015
Labor History
Working History: Black Women Convict Laborers in the New South
In this episode of the SLSA’s Working History podcast, Professor Talitha LeFlouria, a current fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 16, 2015
Labor History
Solidarity Forever! When Labor Had Its Day, And Why Its Time Has Come Again
For the last century, Labor Day events have served primarily as occasions for politicians to make their pitches. But at the height of.
- by James Green
- September 10, 2015