Twenty Best Labor Books – First Cut
On September 7, I’ll be presenting a reading from my new book on the West Virginia mine wars, The Devil Is Here in These Hills, at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA. The store events manager has asked me to
LAWCHA
History of LAWCHA
By Shel Stromquist and Cecelia Bucki (with assistance from Tom Klug), March 2015.LAWCHA grew out of conversations among labor historians over the course of a couple of years between 1996 and 1998 about the importance of giving labor history greater
Issues of Labor
Labor 11.3 (Fall, 2014)
In This Issue The Common Verse Hugh Martin, “Iraq War, 2004” LAWCHA Watch James N. Gregory, “Advancing the Ivory-Collar/Blue-Collar Partnership” Up for Debate Eric Arnesen, “Introduction” Nancy MacLean, “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Difference a Law Can Make”
Issues of Labor
Labor 10.4 (Winter, 2013)
In This Issue The Common Verse Phillip Bannowsky, “The Yard“ LAWCHA Watch Shelton Stromquist, “President’s Perspective: Looking Forward from New York“ Articles Christopher Phelps, ““The Closet in the Party: The Young Socialist Alliance, the Socialist Workers Party, and Homosexuality, 1962
Activism
Global Affairs Articles
Letter of Support for Mexican Intellectual Edur Velasco Arregui
Please see the following call to action passed along to us by Richard Roman and LAWCHA member Manny Ness.
LAWCHA
LAWCHA Watch: Recap of the 2013 National Conference
How have working people developed solidarity and power to confront employers and the state, to struggle with each over and within their communities, to enhance rights and extend the arc of justice? How do we as scholars, educators, and labor
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Expertise Needed: Inter-Union and Federation-Level Organizing: New and Forgotten Methods
The AFL-CIO has formed a committee of labor historians to prepare a document to help them think about the future of organized labor. Confirmed coommittee members include: Julie Greene, University of Maryland; Michael Kazin, Georgetown University; Nelson Lichtenstein, UC Santa
Events (Old)
AFL-CIO Labor Historians Meeting at the OAH, Thursday, April 11, 2013
Please see the following message from Dan Katz pertaining to a committee about new and forgotten strategies of unionization. All interested historians are encouraged to attend the meeting at the OAH (San Francisco), April 11th at 4:30pm at the entrance
Issues of Labor
LAWCHA
Labor 10.1 (Spring, 2013)
In This Issue The Common Verse William Boggs, “It’s Them Robots“ LAWCHA Watch Shelton Stromquist, “Going Global“ Arts and Media Joshua Brown, “Introduction to TV’s The Wire“ Joshua Brown introduces a critical retrospective on creator David Simon’s five-season (2002–8) HBO
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Was Herbert Hill, NAACP’s Labor Secretary, an FBI informer?
Was Herbert Hill–the Labor Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for 25 years known for his fierce criticism of labor union racism, and longtime labor and civil rights movement historian at University of Wisconsin–an