Work: The Politics of Laboring in American History, Graduate Student Conference (Michigan)
May 9-10, 2014. This conference will consider the myriad forms of work throughout American history, in order to engage scholarship in a wide.
LAWCHA
Celebrating MLK Day: Dream Defenders, Moral Mondays, and the Fight for 15
Another national observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is upon us. I know that I’m speaking to the choir here when I.
- by Clarence Lang
- January 20, 2014
Activism
Labor History
Donations Needed to Restore the Mother Jones Monument
I often hear from trade unionists who stop at Mother Jones’ gravesite and monument in Mount Olive, Ill., (just off Highway 55, about.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 19, 2014
LAWCHA
People
Former LAWCHA President Mike Honey publishes Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition
Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white slaveowners, John Handcox was born at one of the hardest times and places to.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 17, 2014
OpEd
Peter Rachleff, “The Mall of America, free speech, and the labor movement”
From early childhood to old age, a “rights discourse” dominates Americans’ sense of the world and our place in it. Governments around the.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 13, 2014
Labor History
People
Eva Swidler, “Academic Freedom From Below: Toward an Adjunct Centered Struggle”
Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 10, 2014
LAWCHA
Five Ideas for Digital Labor History
Over the last two decades, digital technologies have transformed practically every aspect of historians’ professional lives. Tobias HigbieTobias Higbie is a professor of.
- by Tobias Higbie
- January 9, 2014
Call for Proposals
MLWCH CFP, “Resistance and Remembrance,” Final Extension: January 3, 2014
2014 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History (MLWCH) Colloquium. “Resistance and Remembrance: Collective Identities and the Uses of History.” University of Illinois at Chicago,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- December 29, 2013
LAWCHA
The Latest Strike Against Academic Freedom
I wrote an entry for LaborOnline in September concerning a faculty member at the University of Kansas. David Guth, an associate professor of.
- by Clarence Lang
- December 26, 2013
LAWCHA
Italian Hall Tragedy: 100 Years Later
Today, Christmas Eve, 2013, marks the 100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan, one of the most tragic events in.
- by Aaron Goings
- December 24, 2013