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.
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
OpEd
Sarah Rose and Joshua Salzmann, “Our nation of bionic workers”
As Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez prepares to appeal his 211-game suspension, seeking the $86 million remaining on his contract, it would be.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 27, 2013
LAWCHA
The Perils of Faculty Speech: Revisiting Campus Labor and the Corporate University
This past summer, I organized a LaborOnline forum on “Campus Labor and the Corporate University” (July 9, 2013), which featured commentary from James.
- by Clarence Lang
- September 23, 2013
OpEd
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Revaluing the Labor of Care”
They were to be neither nurses nor maids, but front-line careworkers whose efforts allowed frail elderly and disabled people to remain at home..
- by Ryan Poe
- September 20, 2013
Call for Proposals
Food and Work (Deadline: October 1)
Susan Levine and Steve Striffler send a call for papers for a special issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 18, 2013