Jane LaTour (1946-2023)
I first met Jane LaTour over forty years ago on a picket line in the northern New Jersey town of Hillside. Jane was.
- by Bob Bussel
- April 24, 2023
Finding Oil Women: Images of Oil’s Clerical Workforce Challenge Industry-Cultivated Myth of Rugged Masculinity
The new issue of the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History is out, and we are pleased to move Sara Stanford McIntyre’s essay.
- by Sarah Stanford-McIntyre
- February 14, 2023
The Radicalism of Working-Class Americans
In the United States there exists today, and has existed since at least the 1950s, a dominant political narrative according to which most.
- by Chris Wright
- January 11, 2023
Staughton Lynd (1929-2022)
Staughton Lynd, one of labor history’s icons, died on November 17. He was an academic and activist when those combinations were reviled as.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- November 19, 2022
LAWCHA 2022 CFP Deadline Extended: October 31
New Deadline for LAWCHA 2023 conference proposals: submissions are open until October 31.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 12, 2022
A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship
This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
- by Chad Pearson
- September 24, 2022
A Minor Boom: Recent Historical Work on Texas Socialists
This essay initiates our Symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas, published.
- by Kyle Wilkison
- September 22, 2022
LAWCHA/Labor Research Grant
The Labor and Working-Class History Association and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History will jointly award a $2,000 research grant for a contingent faculty.
- by Cindy Hahamovitch
- September 11, 2022