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Labor History

From Worker Education Center to Hedge Fund and State Department Cabal: An Open Call to Struggle Against an Obscene Transformation

Dear friends and supporters of Worker Education: After more than three years of the collective efforts by The Committee of Concerned Alumni, Students,.

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Call for Proposals

Journal of Policy History (Deadline: December 4, 2015)

The Institute for Political History, the Journal of Policy History, and the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University are hosting the ninth biennial Conference.

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LAWCHA

The More Things Stay the Same: Lessons from 1934

It has been 81 years since the workers of the Toledo Electric Auto-Lite Company went on strike. A modest but extremely profitable auto.

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LAWCHA

Collection Spotlight: The Utah Philips Papers

Originally posted October 16th, 2014. Written by Dallas Pillen, Archives Technician at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs,.

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LAWCHA

Journey into an Undocumented Past: Why I Became a Historian

I became interested in history when I was deployed in the Middle East in 2008. I was troubled by boredom and the simplistic.

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Labor History

Baltimore Steel Stories

This is the first video for the Baltimore Steel Stories Project out of Towson University’s Anthropology Department. About half of the material used.

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LAWCHA

Battle of the Overpass

Originally posted at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. May 19, 2011. Written by Kristen.

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LAWCHA

Twenty Best Labor Books – First Cut

On September 7, I’ll be presenting a reading from my new book on the West Virginia mine wars, The Devil Is Here in.

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LAWCHA

2015 LAWCHA President’s Report

Drawing 450 registrants and featuring 3 days of exciting and informative panels the first joint LAWCHA-WCSA conference was a huge success. Thanks to.

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Events

Labor Research & Action Network (LRAN) Annual Conference

June 15 – June 16, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is a dynamic collaborative effort to connect.

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