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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..

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Labor History Teaching Blog

(Updated) Patrick S. O’Donnell, The World of Work and Labor Law: A Bibliography

Patrick S. O’Donnell has updated his monumental bibliography on the labor movement to account for the year 2015. “This bibliography,” writes the author,.

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Events

Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay

LAWCHA member Erik Gellman shares with us a show that he is curating that will be of interest to LAWCHA members. In the.

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In Memoriam

Martel Montgomery, 1931 – 2015

Martel Wilcher Montgomery, beloved wife and partner in life of David Montgomery, passed away on June 3, 2015 at the Crosslands Community in.

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In Memoriam

David Montgomery, 1927 – 2011

David Montgomery has had and will continue to have an incalculable impact on the historical study of workers’ lives, aspirations and struggles in.

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In Memoriam

Camille Guérin-Gonzales, 1945 – 2015

Camille Guérin-Gonzales, a founding member of LAWCHA, former board member, and one of the stalwarts of the LAWCHA Landmark Committee, whose work was.

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Labor History LAWCHA

David Montgomery Award Submissions Open: October 1, 2015 Deadline

The David Montgomery Award is given annually by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best.

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