President Obama’s Budget Proposal Addresses Wealth Inequality in America: Just Kidding
President Obama presented his budget proposal in the face of sequestration, the effects of which are slowly making their way into federal programs.
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AFL-CIO Labor Historians Meeting at the OAH, Thursday, April 11, 2013
Please see the following message from Dan Katz pertaining to a committee about new and forgotten strategies of unionization. All interested historians are.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 8, 2013
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LAWCHA Conference Program Advertisements (Deadline: May 1)
The Labor and Working Class Association 2013 Conference Program will provide advertisements for publishers, journals, magazines, and other organizations who wish to market.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 8, 2013
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Mainstream media thinks studying the history of capitalism is a good thing
Two recent stories in the bastions of mainstream media draw attention to the study of capitalism and Marx. That’s all to the good,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 8, 2013
Events (Old)
March to Commemorate Winston-Salem Local 22
April 20, 2013. A group of journalists and activists in Winston-Salem are organizing a rally and march to commemorate the work of a.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 3, 2013
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Historians as Organizers unveil marker to 1877 mass strike in Maryland
As the president of the US announces new historical monuments, ranging from Harriet Tubman to 240,000 acres of land in New Mexico, it.
- by Bill Barry
- April 3, 2013
Issues of Labor
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Labor 10.1 (Spring, 2013)
In This Issue The Common Verse William Boggs, “It’s Them Robots“ LAWCHA Watch Shelton Stromquist, “Going Global“ Arts and Media Joshua Brown, “Introduction.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- March 27, 2013
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In Memoriam: Robert Chrisman
I first encountered The Black Scholar in the mid-1990s when I was an undergraduate seeking insight to the quandaries of campus race relations,.
- by Clarence Lang
- March 26, 2013
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B&O Railroad Strike of 1887 Memoralized at Camden Yards
On Saturday morning, March 23, 2013, in Baltimore, MD, an historic marker was unveiled on South Howard Street, next to the Camden Yards.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- March 25, 2013
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Robert H. Zieger Prize for Southern Labor Studies
In honor of the late Robert H. Zieger–teacher, scholar, and tireless union activist–the Southern Labor Studies Association announces that it is raising funds.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- March 24, 2013