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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 24, 2014
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 22, 2014
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.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 21, 2014
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