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.
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
OpEd
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “History Shows How 2 Million Workers Lost Rights,” Time
Over the last year, the nation has seen a tumultuous wave of low-wage workers contesting terms of employment that perpetually leave them impoverished.
- by Eileen Boris
- January 14, 2015
LAWCHA
LAWCHA Session at the 2015 AHA: “From the Frontlines with New York Labor: What Is Working?”
Historians and activists gathered at the Murphy Institute on Friday, January 2nd for a LAWCHA event: “From the Frontlines with New York Labor:.
- by Lara Vapnek
- January 13, 2015
Events (Old)
The American Labor Movement at a Crossroads: New Thinking, New Organizing, New Strategies
January 15, 2015. Washington, DC. After three decades of declining union density in the private sector and years of all-out political assaults on.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 6, 2015
LAWCHA
Ferguson and Emerson Electric: The Paradox of Imperial Reach
Six weeks following the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri Emerson Electric Chairman and CEO, Michael Farr, unveiled the corporation’s $1.5.
- by Henry Berger
- December 19, 2014
Events (Old)
LAWCHA
From the Frontlines with New York Labor: What Is Working?
January 2, 4-7pm in New York City, at the Murphy Institute. Please join us for a panel discussion on exciting current organizing strategies.
- by Ryan Poe
- December 15, 2014
Labor History
LAWCHA
Long Time LAWCHA Activist Undertakes Building a New Institution Devoted to Working Class History
A year and a half ago, I left Macalester College after a three decades-long career. I decided that it’s time to devote myself.
- by Peter Rachleff
- December 15, 2014