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Sacco & Vanzetti at 100; What happened to MLK’s dream?: A Podcast

Michele Fazio on “The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later”; Michael Honey, on “What Happened to Martin Luther.

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LaborOnline OpEd

Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions

New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers. William Jones

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LaborOnline OpEd

When the Home Is a Workplace

In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their.

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LAWCHA Teaching Blog

What do Teaching, Publishing, & Collective Action have in common?

LAWCHA’s Teaching Labor’s Story project has an answer – NEW to the TLS project: Thematic Threads. Nikki Mandell

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Labor History Teaching Blog

The Inside Story of a Shirtwaist Factory: Teaching Labor’s Story Update

Clare Lemlich has provided a new teaching resource for Teaching Labor’s Story. It is a primary source material lesson plan involving a magazine.

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LAWCHA

Jake Altman on Socialism before Sanders

Our series of interviews with authors of new books in labor and working-class history continues. In this edition, Stephanie Riley interviewed Jake Altman.

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LAWCHA

Jimmy Hoffa: Symbol of a Bygone Era

Jimmy Hoffa used to say he’d be forgotten ten years after his death. This was an uncharacteristically unintelligent judgment. Forty-four years after his.

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LAWCHA

The Red Scare and Radical Unionism

One hundred years ago this November, a small army of federal agents, backed by police and vigilantes, launched the first of a series.

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LAWCHA

Research on Graduate Assistants & Right to Unionize Challenges NLRB proposed rule

On November 20, 2019, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College, City University of.

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Call for Proposals LAWCHA

CFP: OAH 2020 Travel Grants

LAWCHA is proud to be able to offer eight travel grants ($300) to students, contingent faculty, and independent scholars presenting at the 2020 OAH in Washington.

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