The project was imbued with E. P Thompson’s vision of class as a historical relationship, and of course there was his iconic statement in his book, The Making of the English Working Class: “class happens when some men, as a
In the next two weeks, we’ll be publishing a series of commentaries about the important contributions and critical reviews of the remarkable Working Class in American History Series, which is celebrating its 40th year in 2018.
Dollar General is everywhere. The most visible manifestation, of course, is the proliferation of their concrete block stores littering the landscape. But it’s more than that. After twenty-seven consecutive years of sales growth, Dollar General is attracting increasing attention from
LAWCHA periodically gives awards for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History. 2007: David Montgomery 2008: David Brody 2009: Addie Wyatt 2010: Staughton Lynd 2012: Joe Trotter 2012: Alice Kessler Harris 2013: Esther Cooper Jackson 2015: Jacqueline Hall 2015: Tom
Global labor migration session, Saturday: If the #lawcha2017 opening session was a barn-burner, so too was what was for me the end of the formal conference (I didn’t go to tonight’s plenary, and I leave early tomorrow morning): a round-table
Over 150 years ago Abraham Lincoln warned northerners that southern slaveowners and their advocates hoped to do more than expand slavery westward — they would settle for nothing less than making “the peculiar institution” no longer peculiar by legalizing it
Like me, are you bone weary of hearing non-stop news coverage of Donald Trump? Do you roll your eyes when the pundits “discover” the working class at election time, and then groan when you realize that by “working class” they
Conference Program Digital Version Live Blog Media Photos & Videos Organizing Committee co-chair: Nikki Mandell University of Wisconsin – Whitewater co-chair: Shelton Stromquist University of Iowa Keona K. Ervin Eric Fure-Slocum Julie Greene Jim Gregory Sonia Hernandez Toby Higbie Jennifer
David Montgomery has had and will continue to have an incalculable impact on the historical study of workers’ lives, aspirations and struggles in the U.S. and worldwide. He brought to his scholarship a perspective honed through years of his own
LaborOnline Search for:Search Button Recent Blogs LaborOnline Archives Contribute Content Menu Recent Blogs LaborOnline Archives Contribute Content Featured Blogs An Interview with Historian Robert Cherny, Author of Harry Bridges by Harvey Schwartz October 30, 2024 HS: It is an honor