James Green: Labor Festival Talk, Upcoming Book, and PBS Series
James Green, a past president of LAWCHA, delivered the keynote address at this year’s Mother Jones Festival in Cork, Ireland, a four-day community-organized.
Call for Proposals
LAWCHA
Herbert G. Gutman Dissertation Prize, Submissions Due January 3rd, 2015
The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce this year’s Herbert Gutman Dissertation Prize, established with the cooperation with.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 10, 2014
Call for Proposals
LERA 67th Annual Meeting, May 28-31, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA
The LERA Program Committee has issued a call for session and paper proposals for stimulating, creative, and controversial symposia related to this theme.
- by Ryan Poe
- November 5, 2014
Articles
Labor History
Teaching Blog
A Century of Teacher Organizing: What Can We Learn?
The history of teacher unionism is rich and vibrant, filled with numerous triumphs, tensions, and setbacks. For over a century, most education employees.
- by Adam Mertz
- October 30, 2014
Labor History
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum Open House, November 8, 12pm-4pm
A year ago, community leaders, citizen archaeologists, historians, labor leaders and other volunteers who care about the history in our hills came together.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 23, 2014
OpEd
John McNay, “People’s Veto of a Union-Busting Law Holds Lessons,” Portside
The people’s veto of SB 5 was a triumph of organization, and of labor’s ability to tell its story to ordinary people. I.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 16, 2014
Opportunity
Career Instructor Needed at the Labor Education and Research Center (University of Oregon)
The Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon invites applications for a dynamic, committed labor educator to join our.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 16, 2014
LAWCHA
Title VII’s Legacy
The latest issue of Labor:Studies of Working Class History of the Americas has an excellent forum (available on the right side of this.
- by Erik Loomis
- October 15, 2014
LAWCHA
“Behind Every Worker is a Family,” by Wendy Z. Goldman
In Buenos Aires, I spoke to a crowded auditorium of 700 workers, students, and faculty. Workers came from the Lear plant, from the.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 10, 2014
International Conference
Labor History
Registration open for the Australia-US Comparative Labour History Conference
Historians and other scholars have long recognized both similarities and differences in the labour experience in Australia and the United States. Both countries.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 7, 2014