About Us
LAWCHA is an organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators, and activists who seek to promote public and scholarly awareness of labor and working-class history through research, writing, and organizing.
News & Alerts
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The Legacy of Bessemer: The Amazon Campaign is a Gift to the Labor Movement
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Postmortem on Bessemer Amazon Defeat
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How Amazon’s Anti-Union Consultants Are Trying to Crush the Labor Movement
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Membership list is back!
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Lauren Braun-Strumfels Essay on Italian Immigrant Gatekeeping – Free Access
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Learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty
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Four New Teaching Labor’s Stories! Check them out —
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Budget Activism: A Strategy To Address Contingency—and Tenure
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12 Facts About Morgan Lewis, Amazon’s Powerful Anti-Union Law Firm
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A New Deal For Higher Education–Campaign Kickoff February 10
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Collective Bargaining from All Sides in Higher Education
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100-year anniversary of the Italian Hall Tragedy in Calumet, Michigan
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Jonathan Daniel Wells on his new book, The Kidnapping Club
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Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers: Nat LaCour’s Legacy
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“They’re Not Alone”: An Oral History of the Pennsylvania Faculty Strike of 2016 with an update
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Wishbone of The Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
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Middle Class Nightmares: The presidential elections and the “middle class”
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Invisible Labor in Carceral Spaces: A Special Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2
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Aaron Goings on his new book: The Port of Missing Men
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United Campus Workers of South Carolina
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Who should “rule at home”?
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East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte: Interview with author and editors
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Ryan Pettengill on his new book, Communists and Community . . .in Detroit
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Alexandra Finley on Her New Book, An Intimate Economy
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Nate Holdren responds: Roundtable on Injury Impoverished
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Company Doctors and Working-Class Unrest: Roundtable on Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
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Injustice, Aggregated: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
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Workers’ Worth: Considering Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished
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A Roundtable Nate Holdren’s Injury Impoverished : Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era
Upcoming Events
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Workers on the Front Lines :LAWCHA 2021 Annual Conference
May 26-28, 2021•Chicago, IllinoisBecause of the uncertainty caused by the global pandemic, LAWCHA has decided to move the 2021 Workers on the Front Lines conference to a virtual format. We hope that those who submitted a proposal will still participate. We are asking all panel organizers to let us know by November 30 if you or anyone on your panel wishes to withdraw your proposal. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that your entire panel still wishes to be considered for inclusion on the program. More details about the conference format will be announced as soon as possible. Please contact [email protected]
Read Morewith any questions. Be it in pandemics, natural disasters, industrial “accidents,” or wars, workers always have been and remain on the front lines.
In Memoriam
David H. Bensman, 1950-2020
Professor, Activist, Mentor, Friend
The Legacy of Bessemer: The Amazon Campaign is a Gift to the Labor Movement
RWDSU Critics Have Misrepresented the Facts and Missed the Point
Ever since the RWDSU’s election lost to Amazon in the most-watched union campaign in decades, we have heard from celebrity-seeking “organizing experts,” most of whom weren’t in Alabama, didn’t speak to anyone involved in the RWDSU campaign, yet know exactly what the union organizers did wrong and what they should have done in order to be successful. Read more →
