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In Memoriam

Eugene Genovese, 1930 – 2012

“As a teenager in Brooklyn, New York in the 1940s, Eugene Genovese recruited workers for the Communist Party. Educated at Columbia University, he.

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Call for Proposals Labor History News

CFP: SLSA, The Many Souths (deadline: 9/14)

The Southern Labor Studies Association is soliciting panels for its (March 7-9) 2013 conference in New Orleans, LA. The conference theme, the “Many.

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Labor History News People

OAH Announces David Montgomery Book Award Fund — Donate Today

David Montgomery, former president of the Organization of American Historians (1999–2000), passed away in December 2011. David was the Farnam Professor of History.

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LAWCHA News

New: Spring/Summer 2012 Newsletter

In this issue: Bread and Roses Centennial Effort to Save Blair Mountain Update The Dirty Work of the “Underclass” Occupy Labor: What Role.

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Labor History LAWCHA News OpEd People

Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Home-Care Workers Aren’t Just ‘Companions'” (NYT Op Ed)

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Annual Meeting Minutes LAWCHA News

Annual Membership Meeting Minutes, 2012

Saturday, April 21, 2012, LAWCHA luncheon (at OAH-Milwaukee Hilton City Center). Meeting called to order at 12:30 p.m. by President Shel Stromquist. Report.

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Call for Proposals Labor History LAWCHA News OpEd

CFP: “Rights, Solidarity and Justice,” LAWCHA National Conference, June 6-8, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Rights, Solidarity and Justice: Working People Organizing, Past and Present” LAWCHA National Conference, June 6-8, 2013, New York City. Ryan.

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Events (Old)

Steelworkers’ 70th birthday: The Past Inspires the Future

Kenneth Germanson, president emeritus of the Wisconsin Labor History Society, shares with LAWCHA his article on the USW’s recent 70-year anniversary (photo gallery)..

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Events (Old) LAWCHA

LAWCHA at the OAH, April, 2012

In late April the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians convened in Milwaukee with a program that, thanks to the inspiration.

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Events (Old) Labor History News

Report on the 31st Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Labor History Society, Milwaukee

Ken Germanson, President Emeritus, Wisconsin Labor History Society If there was any thought that history is irrelevant in today’s world, that was dispelled.

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