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Patrick S. O’Donnell, “Workers, the World of Work & Labor Law: A Basic Bibliography”

Patrick S. O’Donnell of Santa Barbara City College sends us a bibliography of titles related to labor law. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/

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Events (Old) International Conference

1913 Dublin Lockout Centenary Conference

October 19, 2013. A day conference to commemorate the Dublin Lockout in 1913. During this epic struggle an estimated 100,000 people, one third.

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LAWCHA OpEd

How AIDS Changed Everything Recap, 2013 LAWCHA Conference

It’s all too rare that we examine HIV/AIDS and LGBT experiences through the lens of class. Jim Hubbard, Miriam Frank and I took.

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LAWCHA OpEd

Cindy Hahamovitch, “The Lessons of Belle Glade,” NYT OpEd

IN 1965, the secretary of labor, Willard Wirtz, stood under a porch light in Belle Glade, Fla., facing a crowd of guest workers.

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LAWCHA OpEd

Lisa Levenstein, “Public Deserves to be Heard on Abortion Bill,” News & Record OpEd

Proposed new regulations on abortion providers have nothing to do with protecting women’s health. Nothing demonstrates this quite like the tactics Republican leaders.

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LAWCHA

Cruel Summer

Events this summer have further demonstrated a cruel irony of African American life in the glare of the nation’s first black presidency. Specifically,.

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LAWCHA

Campus Labor and the Corporate University: A LaborOnline Forum

Clarence Lang, Forum Organizer: Since the late 1970s, neoliberalism has emerged as the main political-economic organizing principle in the United States and globally..

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LAWCHA

Hunger strike in Philadelphia enters 12th day

Philadelphia is now witnessing the 12th day of a hunger strike  among workers and parents protesting the draconian Philadelphia school district budget plan.

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LAWCHA

Why Labor Needs to Ally with LGBTQ Activists

What should the labor movement do after the recent Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights and Defense of Marriage Acts? There has.

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Action Alerts Global Affairs Articles LAWCHA

Violations of the Labor and Human Rights of Maruti Suzuki Workers in India

On 27 June, 2013, the International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) released the report entitled, “Merchants of Menace: Repressing workers in India’s new.

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