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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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LAWCHA

Five Ideas for Digital Labor History

Over the last two decades, digital technologies have transformed practically every aspect of historians’ professional lives.

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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,.

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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.

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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.

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LAWCHA at the AHA: Dinner with Karen Nussbaum

LAWCHA dinner with Karen Nussbaum, Executive Director of Working America, to be held Friday, January 3rd at 7 p.m. at the Café Dupont.

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