LAWCHA at OAH
LAWCHA is pleased to have solicited and endorsed several panels at the 2019 OAH Conference in Philadelphia. We hope to see you there..
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Jobs and Medicare for All
You can tell that Medicare for All is becoming a real possibility when it gets a rigorous cost-benefit analysis and when its advocates.
- by Jack Metzgar
- March 5, 2019
Activism
Events
Triangle Fire Memorial Collective Ribbon
I’m writing to you as President of the Board of Directors of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. For the past decade the Coalition.
- by Ryan Poe
- March 5, 2019
LAWCHA
Share the Wealth
There is a growing awareness that wealth inequality is directly affecting everyman. All politicians recite the pledge to help the middle class, republicans.
- by David Obringer
- February 21, 2019
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The Strange Career of “the Working Class” in US Political Culture Since the 1950s: An Introduction
The working class currently has remarkable visibility in US political culture. In defiance of a longstanding belief in America’s classlessness, even today’s sitting.
- by Robyn Muncy
- February 15, 2019
Call for Proposals
Opportunity
The New Populisms and the White Working Class: University of Michigan Press
This volume seeks papers that take the concept of white working class seriously, as both category and thing-in-itself, while focusing a critical gaze.
- by Carol Quirke
- February 10, 2019
OpEd
Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake
It was the radical African-American intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously called the mass disaffection and migration of southern slaves to Union battle.
- by Leon Fink
- February 6, 2019
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The Ghosts of Bisbee
Bisbee ‘17 is a documentary about an Arizona town facing its ghosts. In June 1917, when copper miners organized by the Industrial Workers of.
- by Mary Romero
- February 3, 2019
OpEd
Even blue-chip companies fail. Here’s how to save their workers, and towns, when they do The Washington Post
The new year has not been happy for former Sears employees. As the company fights for its life in bankruptcy court, laid-off employees.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 29, 2019
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Challenging Trump’s Border Policy in a Song: Alejandro Escovedo’s “Silver City”
I write this in the midst of the longest government shutdown in US history — 25 days and counting — idling 800,000 federal.
- by Daniel Graff
- January 29, 2019