Last Thursday, Michigan legislators passed one of the most anti-worker pieces of legislation the state has ever seen — a so-called Right to Work bill. It jeopardizes the livelihoods of working families throughout the state, particularly families of color.
The California Domestic Workers Coalition will be delivering our letter to Governor Brown’s office next Monday, so if you are willing, please sign this letter and forward the link to other interested colleagues, please do so as soon as you
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Saturday, April 21, 2012, LAWCHA luncheon (at OAH-Milwaukee Hilton City Center). Meeting called to order at 12:30 p.m. by President Shel Stromquist. Report by outgoing president Kimberley Phillips: LAWCHA, in this past year of challenges to public-sector unionism, has heightened
This is a collection of work by LAWCHA members periodically updated. Our members are very active in their local communities, many also in national and international circles. Together, their efforts represent a vital aspect of telling labor’s story, extending from
Labor proudly presents its biennial Best Article Award, including a $1000 stipend, to William P. Jones for the “The Unknown Origins of the March on Washington: Civil Rights Politics and the Black Working Class” [vol. 7, # 3, 2010]. The
Past recipients of the Philip Taft Labor History Prize call on the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations to dissociate from HR conference at anti-union Hyatt Regency hotel.
The work of historians and social scientists, as well as academically based students of business and the law, is having a significant impact on American social policy and political discourse. You’ll find our research deployed by reporters, editorialists, and opinion
Thanks to the leadership that workers in Wisconsin and other states took in the Spring of 2011, Americans seized the opportunity to change the debate about the fiscal crisis in the states, its origins, and the way it was being
This is the official bibliography for LAWCHA’s Teaching and Public Sector Unionism initiative. A full listing of our resources can be found on the Teaching Resources page. For an overview of teachers’ unions, see our featured article, “A Century of