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.
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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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
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,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- September 8, 2015
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- September 4, 2015
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- August 30, 2015