David Montgomery Award: Submission Deadline October 1, 2019
The David Montgomery Award is given annually by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best.
LAWCHA
Is ‘Doing Your Best’ Ever Enough When You Are Working Class?
In 2016, I wrote about how Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake illustrated the impact of the draconian British welfare system on working-class people. Watching.
- by Sarah Attfield
- June 23, 2019
Call for Proposals
Long-term global perspectives on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace: Policy and practice (Deadline September 19)
This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together scholars from all over the world to assemble knowledge about ways of preventing and tackling sexual.
- by Eileen Boris
- June 17, 2019
LAWCHA
Talking Class and Race at the Same Time
Most progressive policies have the potential of unifying people around class interests, but a convention in talking about these things often seems to.
- by Jack Metzgar
- June 17, 2019
LAWCHA
The Great Cowboy Strike: An interview with Mark Lause
Chad Pearson interviews Mark Lause on his new book, The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West, which.
- by Chad Pearson
- June 1, 2019
LAWCHA
Doris Day: Working-Class Hero
Doris Day was one of the hardest working entertainers of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as one of the highest paid female.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- May 26, 2019
Call for Proposals
Global Affairs Articles
César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellowships
Dartmouth College invites applications for the César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship supports scholars whose research addresses aspects of Latinx experience and culture..
- by Ryan Poe
- May 2, 2019
Call for Proposals
Global Affairs Articles
International Workshop: “Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Process: Comparative Perspectives”, Göttingen, 20-22 November
Since the 1970s, a rich and growing academic literature has focused on the formation of divisions between the “formal” and “informal” sectors in.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 2, 2019
LAWCHA
Class(room) Warfare
The actress Felicity Huffman—along with 13 other parents charged in the college admissions scandal—entered plea deals last week, putting pressure on actress Lori.
- by Kathy M. Newman
- April 23, 2019
Call for Proposals
Labouring Lives and Political Protest Across and Beyond the Nordic Countries
Nordic labour history conferences have been organized by the labour history institutes of the Nordic countries since 1974. The last conference took place.
- by Eileen Boris
- March 25, 2019