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.
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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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 Rosemary Feurer
- January 6, 2015