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Caring for America, a Podcast with Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein

Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among.

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LAWCHA

LAWCHA at the OAH Panel and Reception, “Immigration Activism IS Labor Activism: The Undocumented Economic Justice Movement in the Old Confederacy”

Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among.

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LAWCHA

LAWCHA at the OAH, Atlanta 2014

LAWCHA has two main events at this year’s OAH. We encourage all LAWCHA members to attend the public Friday night activist plenary organized.

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OpEd

Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Are Home Health Care Workers About to Get Screwed by the Supreme Court?”

Harris v. Quinn could take away their collective bargaining rights. That would be a loss for not only these workers, but our nation’s.

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Events (Old)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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