Durham, North Carolina
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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Graduate Workers: We ARE Workers, and We Need Unions.
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White Middle-Class Racism
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Sanders or Warren? Populist-Progressivism or New Deal? Take Your Pick!
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OAH 2020 – Contingent Faculty Workshop, Reduced Registration Fee, and Travel Grants
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Jeremy Zallen on his new book, American Lucifers
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“While There Is A Soul In Prison, I Am Not Free”: The History of Solidarity in Social and Economic Justice
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Remembering and Mapping the Knights of Labor
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The Past is Always Present: PCB-AHA Annual Meeting
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Witness to Revolution: Film about Anna Louise Strong Still Gives Insight
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LAWCHA 2019: Contingent Faculty, Independent Scholars, and LAWCHA
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Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation: Deadline December 2
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David Montgomery Award: Deadline October 1
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Teaching Labor’s Story: Margaret Haley, “Why Teachers Should Organize” 1904
Upcoming Events
Workers on the Move, Workers’ Movements
LAWCHA 2019 ConferenceDurham, North Carolina
May 30-June 1, 2019
Labor, migration, and organizing have frequently coalesced. In 2019 LAWCHA seeks presentations that examine how these phenomena have interacted across time and space.
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“While There Is A Soul In Prison, I Am Not Free” :The History of Solidarity in Social and Economic Justice
November 13-14, 2020•Indiana State UniversitySponsored by the Eugene V. Debs Foundation, the Cunningham Memorial Library, and the Department of History at Indiana State University
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Continuing the Struggle :The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights
November 21-22, 2019•Washington, DCWe invite you to join us for a conference to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the International Labor Organization (ILO). We will gather at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on November 21 and 22 for the “Continuing the Struggle: The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights” conference.
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Continuing the Struggle :The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights
November 21-22, 2019•Washington, DCNew Submission Deadline: February 1, 2019 This conference will mark the centenary of that watershed event. It will be both retrospective and prospective.
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Graduate Workers: We ARE Workers, and We Need Unions.
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board proposed a new rule that would reclassify graduate workers at private institutions as students, not workers, and therefore rescind their collective bargaining rights. By claiming graduate workers’ relationship to their university is primarily educational and not economic, the majority-Trump-appointed NLRB threatens to undermine decades of labor organizing. Read more →
