David Montgomery Book Award Seeking Submissions (Deadline: October 1)
The Organization of American Historians and the Labor and Working-Class History Association is currently seeking submissions for the 2015 David Montgomery Book Award.
Call for Proposals
Opportunity
LAWCHA
AFSCME, the United Negro College Fund, and Koch Money – Meanings for the Black Public Sphere
Lee A. Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), recently announced that his union is severing ties.
- by Clarence Lang
- August 4, 2014
Events (Old)
Labor and the Women’s Movement: The Untold Story and Why It Matters
September 27, 2014. Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) will celebrate the contribution of labor women to the women’s movement at an event on.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- August 4, 2014
Events (Old)
NALHC: The Nature of Work
October 16-18, 2014. While the field of environmental history has provided new horizons within which to situate work and workers, this conference intends.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- July 25, 2014
OpEd
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “A shameful setback for home care worker rights”
On Monday in a 5–4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Harris v. Quinn that home care workers paid through Medicaid do.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- July 4, 2014
OpEd
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein on Harris v. Quinn
Harris v. Quinn shows as little respect for history as it does for women’s work. It distorts the status of thousands of homecare.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- July 3, 2014
LAWCHA
The Supreme Court’s War on Women, Workers, and the 99%
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued two 5-4 decisions. The first, Harris v. Quinn, ruled that home health care workers are partial state employees.
- by Erik Loomis
- July 2, 2014
Activism
Help Send Undocumented Student Leaders to Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Conference
LAWCHA member Bethany Moreton asks all who are able to please donate to Freedom University’s effort to send its students to the 50th.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- June 25, 2014
LAWCHA
Made within/outside the EU: what’s the difference?
In a dormitory beside a railway station there are several hundred migrant workers getting ready for – or else just returning from –.
- by Rutvica Andrijasevic
- June 12, 2014
Events (Old)
Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century
February, 11-13, 2015 (CFP Deadline, July 31), University of Melbourne, Australia. Throughout the twentieth century, labour movement activists have been in the forefront.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- June 8, 2014