LAWCHA Conference: 2021 Call for Papers
The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators, and activists, welcomes proposals for its 2021 conference.
Labor History
A summer of protest, unemployment and presidential politics – welcome to 1932
An election looms. An unpopular president wrestles with historic unemployment rates. Demonstrations erupt in hundreds of locations. The president deploys Army units to.
- by James Gregory
- July 1, 2020
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LAWCHA
LAWCHA Statement on Racist Violence and Solidarity in Working-Class History
The Labor and Working-Class History Association condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all victims of racist police brutality,.
- by LAWCHA Executive Committee
- June 5, 2020
Labor History
Teaching Blog
Margaret Chanler Aldrich, “The Week Before Christmas,” December 20, 1911: Teaching Labor’s Story
Margaret Chanler Aldrich and the Teaching Committee have completed another section of Teaching Labor’s Story, featuring a poem first published in the New.
- by Nikki Mandell
- May 30, 2020
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LaborOnline
Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity
Duke University Press is allowing us to offer free access for three months to James Gregory’s provocative new essay “Remapping the American Left:.
- by James Gregory
- May 6, 2020
Labor History
Sacco & Vanzetti at 100; What happened to MLK’s dream?: A Podcast
Michele Fazio on “The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later”; Michael Honey, on “What Happened to Martin Luther.
- by Michael Honey
- April 23, 2020
LaborOnline
OpEd
Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions
New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers.
- by William Jones
- April 23, 2020
LaborOnline
OpEd
When the Home Is a Workplace
In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their.
- by Eileen Boris
- April 17, 2020
LAWCHA
Teaching Blog
What do Teaching, Publishing, & Collective Action have in common?
LAWCHA’s Teaching Labor’s Story project has an answer – NEW to the TLS project: Thematic Threads.
- by Nikki Mandell
- March 7, 2020
Labor History
Teaching Blog
The Inside Story of a Shirtwaist Factory: Teaching Labor’s Story Update
Clare Lemlich has provided a new teaching resource for Teaching Labor’s Story. It is a primary source material lesson plan involving a magazine.
- by Nikki Mandell
- January 11, 2020