UALE 2014 Annual Conference, “Organizing for Power”
Organizing for Power: A New Labor Movement for the New Working Class Los Angeles, California, March 26-29, 2014. Proposals are due December 15..
Events (Old)
Radical Cities: Dublin and Belfast, Queens University, Belfast
Friday, October 25, 2013. Lanyon, G74, Queen’s University Belfast. Speakers: Emmet O’Conner, Peter Bunting, John Gray, Brian Kelly, Michael Pierse, Christopher J.V. Loughlin,.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 19, 2013
LAWCHA
Defend the Irish University Campaign—A call for Solidarity
University professors in Ireland are leading a campaign that links concerns for their work with a concern for education as a public good..
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 17, 2013
Call for Proposals
Events (Old)
44th Annual PNLHA Conference, “Mining Our Past”
The 44th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association (PNLHA) takes place in the historic village of Cumberland, B.C., June 13-15,.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 16, 2013
Call for Proposals
Events (Old)
MLWCH Colloquium, “Resistance and Remembrance: Collective Identities and the Uses of History”
Held at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2014 the annual Midwest Labor and Working-Class.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 16, 2013
OpEd
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Who cares for those who care?”
In 2009, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, in Long Island Care at Home vs. Evelyn Coke upheld the.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 11, 2013
Labor History
Heather Thompson, “How Prisons Have Changed America’s Electoral Politics,” The Atlantic
What has it really cost the United States to build the world’s most massive prison system? To answer this question, some point to.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 7, 2013
Labor History
People
Inaugural David Montgomery Award (Deadline: November 1)
The David Montgomery Award will be given annually beginning in 2014 by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 1, 2013
OpEd
Brian Greenberg, “Labor unions to focus on cementing partnerships”
In a June 2, 1897, letter to the New York Journal, Mark Twain responded to newspaper accounts that he either was seriously ill.
- by Ryan Poe
- October 1, 2013
LAWCHA
Can Labor and Greens Build Coalitions?
For years, the labor movement has talked of the need to build coalitions with other social movements. During the Trumka presdiency, the AFL-CIO.
- by Erik Loomis
- September 30, 2013