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“They’re Not Alone”: An Oral History of the Pennsylvania Faculty Strike of 2016 with an update

We are glad to take this article from behind a paywall link at the Labor: Studies in Working Class History, and are grateful.

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Labor History LaborOnline

Middle Class Nightmares: The presidential elections and the “middle class”

This is an English translation of a review first published https://commonware.org/recensioni/vite-di-commessi-elettori-le-elezioni-americane-e-la-middle-class ) Sarah Jones reviews The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger “Once.

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LAWCHA

Call For Papers: Invisible Labor in Carceral Spaces: A Special Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History

CALL FOR PAPERS ILWCH is soliciting articles for a special issue that will examine the history of unfree labor in carceral spaces within.

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Call for Proposals

Invisible Labor in Carceral Spaces: A Special Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History

ILWCH is soliciting articles for a special issue that will examine the history of unfree labor in carceral spaces within a global context..

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In Memoriam

David H. Bensman, 1950-2020

Remembering Our Friend and Colleague, Professor David H. Bensman A champion for workers, Bensman mentored two generations of future labor activists, organizers, and.

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LAWCHA Conference: 2021 Call for Papers

The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators, and activists, welcomes proposals for its 2021 conference.

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Labor History

A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932

An election looms. An unpopular president wrestles with historic unemployment rates. Demonstrations erupt in hundreds of locations. The president deploys Army units to.

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Action Alerts LaborOnline LAWCHA

LAWCHA Statement on Racist Violence and Solidarity in Working-Class History

The Labor and Working-Class History Association condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all victims of racist police brutality,.

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Labor History Teaching Blog

Margaret Chanler Aldrich, “The Week Before Christmas,” December 20, 1911: Teaching Labor’s Story

Margaret Chanler Aldrich and the Teaching Committee have completed another section of Teaching Labor’s Story, featuring a poem first published in the New.

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Labor History LaborOnline

Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity

Duke University Press is allowing us to offer free access for three months to James Gregory’s provocative new essay  “Remapping the American Left:.

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