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Peter Cole, “Behind the Longshoremen’s Strike Threat,” The Progressive, December 29

“Just days before year’s end, a growing chorus of retailers, manufacturers, and conservative politicians called on President Obama to invoke a notorious anti-union.

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LAWCHA

A Dialogue on History of Capitalism vs. Labor History

Jefferson Cowie (JC): Academic disciplines and their subfields are always in some kind of “crisis,” it seems, but for labor history that crisis.

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LAWCHA OpEd

LAWCHA Member Activity in Recent Right to Work Conflicts

Rosemary FeurerRosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among.

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LAWCHA

Gompers Redux? or, Does Labor Need the State to Meddle?

I am finding it hard these days to get in the holiday spirit. In the wake of Michigan’s Republican and corporate assault on.

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LAWCHA

Report on Lansing: anti-RTW Protest 12-11-12

On December 11 around 13,000 trade unionists and their allies gathered outside the capitol building in Lansing, Michigan to protest anti-union “right-to-work” legislation..

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LAWCHA

Democracy on the Defensive in Michigan

I started my research on right-to-work laws almost ten years ago, when these decades-old statutes seemed a dead issue with no millennial saliency.

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LAWCHA

Gutman Prize Extended Deadline: January 31st, 2013

We are pleased to announce a deadline extension for the Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation. The new deadline for submissions is.

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Labor History Opportunity

Career Instructor, Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon

The Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon seeks a dynamic, committed labor educator to join our faculty as.

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Visualizing the 2012 LAWCHA Membership

Ever wondered where LAWCHA members were located? Thanks to BatchGeo and Google Maps, we can now visualize our membership on a map. Rosemary.

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Labor History

Our Man in Rio: Leon Fink Reports on Inspiring Conference

From November 27 to November 30, 2012, I had the pleasure of attending the Second International “Worlds of Labor” conference—effectively the Brazilian labor.

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