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.
Global Affairs Articles
International Conference
Labor History
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
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 Rosemary Feurer
- 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
Labor History
Bill Barry, “Workers vs. Undocumented Immigrants: The Politics of Divide & Conquer”
Former labor organizer Bill Barry discusses the tenuous relationship between the working class and undocumented workers, and the forces that keep these groups.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 9, 2014