Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike
Tired of reductions in pay and jobs, increased workloads, and harassment of United Automobile Workers organizers, on December 30, 1936 automotive workers in.
Labor History
OpEd
LAWCHA Member Jarod Roll Featured in BBC Article, “Can a union victory happen in the South?,” February 12, 2015
After the United Automobile Workers’ (UAW) union failed in its effort to unionise a Volkswagen (VW) plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the New York.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 13, 2015
Events (Old)
LAWCHA at the 2015 OAH (St. Louis)
April 16-19, 2015. Are you attending the April meeting of the OAH in St. Louis—or living in the area? LAWCHA will have a.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 13, 2015
OpEd
James Green, “West Virginia Coal Mine Owners Have Blood on Their Hands”, The Daily Beast, February 5, 2015
The bloody history of mine workers in West Virginia is truly as dark as any dungeon, but the recent indictment of a mine.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 7, 2015
Call for Proposals
State Historical Society of Iowa 2015/2016 Research Grants (Deadline: April 15)
The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) announces a grant program for the 2015/2016 academic year. SHSI will award up to ten stipends.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 7, 2015
Labor History
Graphic History Collective Project #10 – Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love
We are excited to share the mini-comic version of Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love, a community based comic book project created by Toronto-based.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 4, 2015
Events
Fighting Inequality: Class, Race, and Power
May 28-31, 2015. Registration now open! Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Joint Conference of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Working-Class Studies.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 3, 2015
Global Affairs Articles
International Conference
Labor History
Australia and U.S. Labor: Transnational Influences and Historical Comparisons
For three days in early January—summertime in the land “down under”—historians and other scholars interested in labor gathered on the campus of Australia’s.
- by Peter Cole
- January 30, 2015
Opportunity
Post-Doc at Penn State’s Center for Global Workers’ Rights
The School of Labor and Employment Relations at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for the position of Post-Doctoral Scholar with the Center.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 20, 2015
LAWCHA
Protest, Politics and Policing: What Bayard Rustin Could Tell the Ferguson-Garner Movement
“I can’t breathe” actions in street crossings, sports fields and other civic spaces have blown new life into civil rights public history. Demonstrators.
- by Roberta Gold
- January 19, 2015